More small firms in Britain now expect to shrink, sell up or close over the next year than expect to...
Year: 2026
A week before his seventeenth birthday, Darren Leigh was handed a department and four people to run. The department was...
UK startups and scaleups raised €14.8 billion, roughly $17 billion, in the first six months of 2026. That is 102...
Thirty-five per cent of UK businesses with ten or more employees used at least one artificial intelligence technology in June...
The S&P Global UK Manufacturing PMI came in at 51.9 for July, down from 52.5 in June and the lowest...
On 16 July the Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB agreed to buy Rotork, the Bath-based valve actuator manufacturer, for 506 pence...
Lloyds Banking Group reported a statutory profit before tax of £4.3 billion for the six months to 30 June 2026, against...
The Monetary Policy Committee held Bank Rate at 3.75 per cent on 29 July. It did so by six votes...
The four largest buyers of artificial-intelligence infrastructure spent roughly $165 billion between them in the second quarter. Over the same stretch,...
