Business and Finance

Executives from Britain’s biggest high street banks have been summoned for talks with Kwasi Kwarteng amid concerns about the impact of recent financial turmoil on the mortgage market.

The taxpayer support for household energy bills could cost up to £140bn in an "extreme" scenario, an energy market expert has warned.

The boss of the UK's biggest retailer says it is "inflating prices a little bit less and a little bit later" than the competition as families' budgets are squeezed.

Motorists are being denied a further 10p cut in petrol prices because retailers have hiked their profit margins, according to the RAC.

Renewable energy offset global increases in fossil fuel use in the first half of this year - preventing an overall rise in coal and gas emissions.

Rail passengers are facing more travel disruption today as another strike in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions takes place.

Elon Musk is planning to buy Twitter for his original offer price - and he's hinted at his plans for social media.

The chief executive of Shell has called on the government to tax oil and gas companies in order to protect the poorest people in society from soaring energy costs.

There is a mounting risk that fuel prices could soon begin to rise again as major oil-producing countries ponder a big cut in output.

The upheaval in gilt (UK government bond) markets that led to last week's spectacular intervention from the Bank of England continues to reverberate.