BUSINESS

Monthly employment index by KPMG and Recruitment and Employment Confederation suggests reason for 'cautious optimism'.

MoD awards defence contractor with deal to design and manufacture submarine HMS Audacious.

BAE Systems has agreed a £1.2bn deal with the Ministry of Defence to design and manufacture the Royal Navy's new attack submarine HMS Audacious.

Italy's Prime Minister says he'll resign following withdrawal of support from former leader Silvio Berlusconi.

China's exports rise 2.9 percent, much below expected rate of 9 percent.

Pizza Hut to spend £20m to open 100 more stores across country.

Higher food prices prompt cautious monetary policy.

Buyback cuts Greece's €63bn debt owned by private investors by a half.

Starbucks stores to be turned into refuges, crèches and homeless shelters.

One-off deal could make China a major player in Canada's oil sector.

Thinktank's monthly GDP reading shows stagnant UK economy and adds to concern country facing triple-dip recession.

Indian Government gets parliament's backing to allow 51 percent FDI in multi-brand retail.

ONS figures show industrial production falling with other data pointing to a renewed decline.

Bundesbank lowers Germany's 2013 growth rate by more than one percentage point to 0.4 percent.

ADB cuts forecast for developing Asia as global economic slowdown threatens to hamper growth.

National Audit Office says taxpayers will shoulder 'significant cost' of collapse of franchise deal.

US District Court Judge Lucy Koh says it is time for ‘global peace’.

Investors who missed out on oversubscribed IPO grab PICC shares.

Three former employees tell US regulators enromous derivatives position deliberately undervalued.

Coffee chain Starbucks under intense public and political pressure to pay more tax in UK amid accusations of avoidance.

Martin Cole believes the tax avoidance secrets of companies such as Starbucks and Amazon betray the pointlessness of the European Union.

Exports surplus in decline but goods trade deficit narrowing reports Office for National Statistics.

George Osborne undermined by rating agency warning that failure to meet debt reduction targets jeopardises AAA status.

Despite increase in revenue, Mulberry reports a 36% fall in pre-tax profit due to higher operating costs that cut profit margin.

Sir Philip Green sells 25 percent stake to US private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners to fund overseas expansion.

New Mass Effect 3 DLC to feature biggest BioWare crew for any Mass Effect DLC as franchise gets set for grand finale.

Starbucks has agreed to annually pay around £10m in corporation tax for the next two years after striking a deal with the HMRC.

Engine-maker Rolls Royce says company and individual employees may be prosecuted as result of SFO investigation.

Payment to settle claims that bank violated US curbs on Iran.