UK Business

Business owners across the hospitality industry say COVID rule changes are already having a "chilling" impact on bookings.

Travel stocks have led a FTSE 100 rally as the latest swing in sentiment over the Omicron variant saw global markets bounce higher.

The world's rich nations must help vaccinate the poorest nations or else they will face a continual cycle of economic shocks and restrictions in the face of new variants, the OECD's chief economist has said.

House prices unexpectedly returned to double digit growth last month as the property market kept up its "extremely buoyant" pace, new figures show.

It is typical at this point in the season for dictionary publishers and academics to publish their word of the year.

Another household energy supplier has thrown in the towel as the industry grapples with the unprecedented surge in wholesale costs.

British households are facing a more expensive Christmas shop after labour shortages and surging costs pushed retail prices higher for the first time since May 2019, according to industry figures.

LadBible Group, the youth-focused digital publisher, is to target a valuation of £360m in one of the London stock market's biggest media industry flotations this year.

Car dealership Pendragon has shifted its profit outlook up a gear as it shrugged off shortages of new vehicles and saw strong demand in the second-hand market.

Facebook's owner Meta has been issued a legally binding order to sell the GIF library Giphy after an investigation found the takeover "could harm social media users and UK advertisers".