Business Blog

Building equipment company JCB posts the third-best profits ever, despite a fall in pre-tax earnings.

US food company Hillshire pays $6.6bn for rival firm Pinnacle Foods, whose brands include Aunt Jemima and Duncan Hines.

Can Abbott's spending cuts balance Australia's books?

Bob Diamond is among several former Barclays executives due to be questioned under caution by the UK's Serious Fraud Office.

How Gary Barlow fell foul of HMRC

BSkyB has approached Sky broadcasters in Germany and Italy, which are all majority-owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, in an attempt to create a European TV giant.