BUSINESS

Statistics for the coming months may be brighter as activity picks up.

UK is gripped by online shopping fever and BooHoo and Sports Direct look good as long-term online retail plays.

Analysts call the timing "very unfortunate" for Royal Mail.

Duqu 2.0 hackers, thought to be based in Israel, stole a digital certificate from Foxconn in cyberattack

Slight dip below zero in April was never a real threat to the economy, economists said.

The company said the actions are part of a restructure that should help Gap sales to increase again.

Residential developer experiences sales growth in first six months of 2015.

Detroit is reinventing itself after going bust in 2013.

A bunch of social media-powered upstarts are targeting the highest echelons of finance.

In May, Whitbread announced that it had appointed Lloyds executive Alison Brittain as its CEO

Economists say the Korean government may announce a supplementary budget due to a "more worrisome" economic situation.

LastPass has revealed that its systems were breached and is urging all users to reset their master password

Australia's Trade Minister Andrew Robb and China's Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng will formalise the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement in Canberra on 17 June.

Jamaica has contacted HSBC to lure the bank into shifting its headquarters to the island state, Sky News reported.

The company has won auctions to purchase P&G's hair-care, fragrance and cosmetics businesses, expanding its product portfolio.

Germany says an emergency plan is needed because Greece could fall into a state of emergency.

Shares at Majestic Wine were also down following its acquisition of Naked Wines.

Sciens Capital Management will take over the company's 'iconic brands, products, and operations'.

Writer Charlie Skelton sums up what took place at this year's Bilderberg summit in Austria.

Credit cards have recently come under pressure from digital payments

Freedom of the press will not be safe in the UK under new domestic surveillance laws say journalists

Key players and experts believe that a deal will be done as 30 June deadline nears.

Something was needed to wipe the smug smile off Chancellor George Osborne's face.

A report claiming Russia and China have access to Snowden's cache of documents has been widely criticised

More than 14 million people in the UK have downloaded mobile banking says British Bankers Association

Shares in Nestle India end 2.14% lower in Mumbai trade.

Tesco's South Korean business is its biggest business outside of the UK.

Digital payments firm Stripe is expanding to Scandinavia

New regulation in China now caps the size of margin trading and short-selling.