BUSINESS

Interesting Office for National Statistics chart shows number of export businesses is larger than import ones.

The bank returns to profit in the first quarter after posting a loss in the fourth quarter 2012.

Spain’s economy contracts for the seventh consecutive quarter as unemployment surges

Whitbread, which owns Costa Coffee and Premier Inn, plans jobs boost over five years on back of profits rise.

BP attributes the better-than-expected results to new production coming on stream in high-margin areas.

Investors expect the ECB and the US Federal Reserve to continue their growth-supportive monetary policies.

Britain's state backed bank reports higher first quarter profits on improved margins and lower costs

Rising inflation in the county add to households' concerns about meeting budgets.

The UK Independence Party hopes to make big gains at the local elections on 2 May. Following its successful second place finish in the Eastleigh by-election, the anti-EU party is putting up 1,745 candidates across England and Wales.

The central banks across the globe are expected to continue their growth-supporting monetary policies.

Virgin Galactic's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday (April 29) morning above the Mojave Desert in California.

UAE's human rights record questioned amid torture allegations and free expression crackdown but, asks Shane Croucher, is it business as usual?

Eurozone's economic morale index falls to 88.6 in April, down for a second consecutive month.

Land Registry house price data shows average price lifted 0.1 percent in March on month before.

Greggs projects full-year profit below the lower end of market expectations between £47.5m and £55.2m.

Following roll-out of Universal Credit system, IBTimes UK looks at facts and fiction of British benefit culture.

The bank will receive a 1.8% stake in Banco Sabadell and up to £17m in cash in five years as consideration.

Regional authorities need to respond early and decisively to potential overheating in the Asian economies.

Italy's new coalition government is set to announce its economic policies and growth agenda.

The coalition government’s welfare overhaul gets trialled in Greater Manchester

Better access to wholesale funding and decline in bad loans main drivers of lending.

Hometrack data shows London property demand up to pre-2007 financial crisis levels.

Investors awaiting data including central bank policy meetings in eurozone and US.

Ethiopian Airlines to operate 787 Dreamliner flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

Most Asian markets end week's trading on a higher note with corporate earnings reports bolstering investor confidence.

First round of refunds to SMEs is step in right direction - but should come with several warnings.

IBTimes UK guides you through legal tax avoidance methods used by giants such as Starbucks and Amazon.

Britain's WWII prime minister will replace social reformer Elizabeth Fry on country's fivers as of 2016.

The public majority deplore corporate tax avoidance yet we still use and lap up Amazon, Starbucks and Google