BUSINESS

IFS says shift away from final salary pensions has played a part in retirement squeeze.

Rising local government debt in China is considered as threat to financial stability.

CBI says an increasing number of opportunities for young people.

Government official tells Reuters bank blocked OIG's probe over bank's relationship with Bernard Madoff.

Electronics giant shutting down solar panel production unit.

Figures obtained using Freedom of Information requests by Labour party.

Prices of pork, fertiliser, cotton, vegetable oil and sugar under NDRC scrutiny.

Beale joins Lloyd's of London insurance market from January 2014.

BRC data shows fewer consumers on high street than in previous November.

India's wholesale price inflation strikes a 14-month high in November.

Auto-enrolment scheme began in 2012 and is rolling out from larger to smaller employers.

The programme is backed by the Department for UK Trade and Investment.

More Swiss banks are agreeing to cooperative with US authorities in the face of prosecution for hiding taxable assets from the IRS.

Markit's flash composite eurozone PMI hits best quarterly reading for two-and-a-half years.

Federation of Small Businesses report shows many expect to grow and hire staff in 2014.

Average bonus for managing directors is predicted to increase to £166,955 in 2013.

Accountancy giant KPMG sees marginal revenue growth, but efficiency savings and job cuts drive profitability.

Project is expected to produce 1 billion cubic feet of gas and 25,000 barrels of gas condensate per day at peak levels.

The US Fed's FOMC will meet on 17-18 December.

Richard Meddings handed over risk governance to Peter Sands.

Workers at Amazon.com's German operations on Monday (December 16) vowed to continue a strike over pay in the middle of the crucial Christmas holiday season, in a dispute over pay that has been raging for months.

US Federal Reserve's FOMC will meet on 17-18 December.

A delegation of German workers will also protest outside the company's headquarters in the US.

Move indicates that GSK is more reliant on high-growth emerging markets than traditional western markets.

Rightmove says housing sector recovery in country gaining momentum.

The first high-speed trains linking Barcelona and Paris took off on Sunday (December 15), reducing the journey by nearly half the time to six hours and 25 minutes.

Rome police say mafia targets vulnerable property owners who are forced to sell because of poor economic climate.

Market players await US Federal Reserve's QE taper decision.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed IBM 'cooperating' with NSA in surveillance programmes.