BUSINESS

Vodafone raises bid to €85 per Kabel Deutschland share, according Bloomberg's sources.

Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls calls for Chancellor George Osborne to implement committee's new banking industry blueprint

Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards recommends jail sentences for bankers who cause financial disasters.

FOMC will end its two-day meet later in the day and Fed chief Ben Bernanke is due to speak after the meet.

As the PCBS publishes its final report on the banking industry, we take a look behind the panel

Value of exports rise 10.1% to 5.77tn yen, trade deficit widens to 993.9bn yen.

Declaration includes call for tax authorities to share information and stop company profits being shifted around to avoid taxation.

EasyJet to buy 35 current-generation A320 aircraft and 100 new-generation A320neo jets from Airbus.

Car sales up 11% in the UK, while Spain, Italy, Germany and France saw declines.

International Chamber of Commerce's (ICC) Open Markets Index 2013 reveals not one G8 country made top ten for trade openness.

NBNK lost out because their bid was priced lower, Sir Win Bischoff said.

Swiss parliament stalls a draft bill that is aimed at protecting the country's banks from US criminal charges

Ratings agency Moody's downgrades Co-Operative Bank saying it will default on its debt despite its £1.5bn recapitalisation plan.

ONS says air fares lifted by 22% in May as motor fuel price decline slows on year.

Construction industry leaders tell IBTimes UK they want Treasury action to boost UK Guarantees Scheme.

69 of the 70 Chinese cities tracked by the National Bureau of Statistics saw increase in home prices.

Serious Fraud Office charges senior trader with conspiracy to defraud over Libor.

The IMF is one of the three lenders overseeing Dublin's €85bn (£71.8bn ) bailout.

Investors will also track British CPI data and Germany's ZEW Economic Sentiment Index.

David Cameron's plans to battle tax evasion opposed by world leaders.

The second episode of our Games Studio Spotlight series takes us to Hello Games, located in Guildford Surrey.

UK secures support from EU counterparts to keep key parts of financial services sector in London.

Nervousness to continue till the FOMC rate decision and Fed chief Ben Bernanke's speech, according to Barclays.

The lower terms of trade would result in further fall in currency, says the RBA.

Tunisian government recently received $1.74bn loan from International Monetary Fund to aid economic reforms.

Era of bank secrecy is over, European tax commissioner Algirdas Semeta tells Swiss finance minister.

IBTimes UK exclusively reveals that whistleblower alerted CFTC, Finma and FSA two years ago.

The number of people visiting shops in the UK has dropped by 0.7% in May from previous year, said a report published by trade group British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard.

Hourly labour costs rose 1.9% in the January-March quarter.