Business and Finance

Britain's largest pub and brewery company Greene King has agreed to a £4.6bn takeover by a Hong Kong-based conglomerate.

The engineering division of British Steel is racing to secure a sale days after Turkey's military pension fund secured the exclusive right‎ to buy the UK's second-largest steel producer.

Stock markets across Europe have risen on hopes of a stimulus after Germany's central bank hinted there was a risk of recession.

Property sales have started to rise after Brexit uncertainty had left transaction levels at multi-year lows, according to a property portal.

Shares in the outsourcing giant Mitie Group have risen sharply after it confirmed the sale of its catering division.

Lidl's Irish business has said that British suppliers will be responsible for additional tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

A secret government report warning of food, fuel and drug shortages under a no-deal Brexit is out of date, Michael Gove has said.

One of the leading figures in Britain's private equity industry is in talks to join CVC Capital Partners, the new backer of Premiership Rugby, following more than a decade at one of its biggest rivals.

The Treasury is to slap Standard Chartered, the emerging markets lender, with a multimillion-pound fine for failing to prevent sanctions breaches, dealing a further blow to the FTSE-100 bank's reputation.

Turkey's military pension fund has entered into exclusive talks for the takeover of British Steel.