BUSINESS

Markets positive ahead of US job figures which could provide pointer to Fed move on QE.

Energy giant looking to buy bumper stake in exploration and development company licences.

Oil price reporting agencies say EU proposals could impose huge liabilities and are unfeasible.

Antitrust regulators will unveil draft legislation for countries to sue cartels proven to rig Libor, oil and other markets

Markets await US non-farm payrolls data and unemployment rate for May.

IBTimes UK visited Google's London headquarters this week to talk to the four winners of the Global Impact Awards, which which charge UK non-profit organisations with coming up with ways to use technology to change the world.

Bank of Korea revises down country's first quarter growth to 0.8% from a previous estimate of 0.9%.

Blurgroup.com's chief speaks exclusively on internet currency and why the UK tech industry is behind in development.

Financial Fraud Action UK figures show triple rise in skimming, cloning and shoulder surfing at ATM machines.

Israel's Calcalist financial newspaper initially reported that Pepsi is willing to pay even more for the company.

M&S chief executive takes home £2m pay packet despite four-year low in profit.

King presided over his 193rd and final MPC meeting and makes way for Mark Carney

Mathew Martoma accused of insider trading in technology and pharma stocks.

Number of jobless French creeps up to 10.8%, highest level since 1998.

Japan's Sumitomo sold about 84 million shares, representing around half of its Barclays' shareholding

HMRC charts show regional breakdown of UK trade and how importers growing faster than exporters.

Citi and EIU research says London will rise significantly in terms of economic strength between 2012 and 2025

Blurgroup.com’s chief speaks exclusively in a two-part interview on web commerce platforms, internet currency pre-Bitcoin and crowd funding

Halifax index shows credit easing schemes - FLS and Help to Buy - massaging mortgage market.

Bank of England and European Central Bank to announce rates decision.

China's solar firms Trina Solar, Suntech Power and Yingli Green Energy to be hit by EU duties.

Improving economic data in May will prompt the European Central Bank to freeze interest rates

CIPD survey shows that even those working in the financial sector believe they are being paid too much

For years now, we have been told that the PC is dead. The advent of the iPad in 2010 was seen to herald the death knell for the PC, but this is not the case, says Microsoft - the PC has just changed shape.

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said bumper payment to the state is not enough and called for more claims

US jobs data and China growth concerns pull down markets.

Paris-based ESMA could take over regulation of key benchmark rates, including Euribor, in line with European Union proposals.

Blurgroup.com's chief speaks exclusively in a two-part interview on web commerce platforms, internet currency and crowdfunding.

IBTimes UK looks at some of the issues plaguing troubled supermarket giant..