Discount supermarket chain Aldi has announced plans to create 35,000 new jobs in Britain.A proposed £600m investment, which would include a doubling of its store numbers to 1,000, was confirmed as the...

A failure by petrol firms and supermarkets to pass on the full benefit of falling oil prices to customers filling up at the pumps would be an “outrage”, a Cabinet Minister will warn. Treasury...

Britain’s biggest banks have abandoned efforts to head off a full-blown competition inquiry following a lukewarm response from regulators. Sky News understands that the Competition and Markets Authority...

US stock indexes have climbed back to record highs after a surprise stimulus package from Japan’s central bank.Just two weeks after the US market had its biggest slump in two years, the Dow Jones...

Samsung Electronics has seen its quarterly operating profit fall to its lowest level in more than three years because of slowing smartphone sales.The South Korean company said profit fell 60% to 4.1tn...

Asia stocks are receiving a lift from stronger-than-expected Japan industrial production and US consumer confidence data hitting a seven-month high. Manufacturing output in the world’s third-largest...

Technology giant Yahoo has reported profits of $6.8bn (£4.2bn) for the three months to September, buoyed by earnings from the firm’s stake in Alibaba. Yahoo was required to sell part of its stake...

Giampiero Testoni straddles the sleek Energica Ego motorcycle, hits a few buttons and nothing happens. Dead silence.Before getting an answer he’s suddenly off, rocketing down curvy Skyline Boulevard...

First a Malaysia Airlines plane goes missing and is never found. And four months later, another one of its passenger jets is shot out of the sky.The tragic events have taken the lives of 537 people in...

Here’s a surprising effect of the latest U.S. sanctions against Russia: a run on AK-47s.Among the companies sanctioned this week was Kalashnikov Concern, the maker of the automatic weapon. “We sell...