Sugar prices surged to the highest level in a year after a fire engulfed six warehouses at the Brazilian port of Santos, threatening to put one of the world's biggest sugar terminals offline for up to ...

A Japanese scientist who co-authored a discredited study purporting to describe a revolutionary method of creating stem cells was found dead on Tuesday, after apparently hanging himself at the ...

Ruby Hamid, for the FCA, told the court that Shelley would meet his co-conspirator, Paul Milsom, a former equities dealer at Legal & General Investment Management, in pubs across the City several ...

Saxo Bank, the Danish bank specialising in online trading, will this month become the latest financial institution to try to harness the power of social media in the pursuit of new clients. In fully ...

The CPI is working on developing a UK supply chain in an attempt to improve the country's share of the printable electronics market. Mr Spruce says the technology is beginning to see more interest, ...

Germany has struck back at the US Treasury after it became the target of an unusual swipe in a report blaming the eurozone's biggest economy for giving a deflationary bias to the euro area and the ...

A group of hackers investigating the collapse of Mt Gox, the Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange, has lent weight to the idea that it was an inside job, publishing a report detailing the activities of an ...

Shareholders in Zain, Kuwait's largest telecommunications operator, are to sell a 46 per cent stake in the company to a consortium made up of Indian telecoms companies and a Malaysian investor, for ...

Tax authorities have recouped more than £230m in charges from retired people caught out by the introduction of a cap on lifetime pension savings, according to official figures. A Freedom of ...

Mykola Azarov, Ukraine's prime minister, resigned on Tuesday and was replaced by his deputy, the latest attempt by the administration of President Viktor Yanukovich to defuse an escalating two-month ...

Cinnober is planning to reverse a steep decline in profitability by using its proposed takeover of a European trade reporting service as a platform to supply more trading tools to cost-conscious banks ...

As the army tightens its grip and the death toll mounts, so too does the threat of civil war. Violence was inevitable once the security forces moved in on the Islamist protesters who have occupied ...