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UK inflation hit 9 per cent in April, its highest level in over 40 years, after soaring gas and electricity bills intensified the cost of living crisis facing households. The…

Moderna’s chair has launched an unflinching defence of the board’s executive hiring process after it was forced to fire its new chief financial last week following just one day in…

One thing to start: JPMorgan Chase shareholders have voted against the bank’s executive pay plan, delivering a stinging rebuke to chief executive Jamie Dimon and his management team. Welcome to…

There is surely plenty of blame to be shared around at KPMG over its audits of collapsed contractor Carillion. But how much of it should really sit with a 25-year-old…

Boohoo plans to switch to a conventional executive pay policy after falls in its share price made lucrative schemes based on market capitalisation less likely to pay out. The fast…

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The writer is a former banker and author of ‘Fortune’s Fool: Australia’s Choices’ Competing economic and geopolitical forces mean Australia’s relationship with China requires walking along a barbed-wire fence with…

A Monaco-based shipping company has taken a stake in Britishvolt, the UK start-up hoping to build a £3.8bn battery “gigafactory” in Northumberland. The strategic investment by Scorpio Group is a…

Japanese auto parts maker Denso said late last month that it would build a major production plant for power chips with Taiwanese foundry UMC, a move that highlights the growing…

Wm Morrison paid the equivalent of £182mn to take over McColl’s, edging out a rival proposal from EG Group by promising more cash for unsecured creditors and leveraging its position…