BUSINESS

Public Accounts Committee urged the FCA to tougher oversight and rules for short term lenders such as Wonga

Trades Union Congress analysis says UK economy would have grown three times faster without tumbling construction output and calls for fiscal stimulus.

UK Gfk index of consumer confidence beats forecast and suggests recovery is gaining.

Wall Street gains propel Asian markets as fears over Fed's asset purchase cutbacks ease.

Core consumer prices declined 0.4% in April from a year earlier, while industrial output rose 1.7%.

Several thousand anti-capitalist demonstrators blocked access to the European Central Bank building in Frankfurt on Friday (May 31), in a protest against the handling of Europe's debt crisis.

IBTimes UK looks at tax facts to mark Tax Freedom Day.

Exceptional items generate net loss of £12m in year ending 31 March, 2013.

Full-year pre-tax profit increased 37% to £215m, as turnover rose 3.4% to £1.8bn.

Silver exploration, development and production company boss tells IBTimes UK about silver prices, market trends and conspiracies

B&Q's sales in the UK & Ireland dropped 5.7% to £913m.

Adam Smith Institute calculations put May 30 as day in which average UK worker has payed off 2013's tax burden.

UK Competition Commission says Ryanair may have to reduce its stake in Aer Lingus.

DeVere Group CEO Nigel Green says raft of regrets leads to costly mistakes.

Cambridge-based Armtrac secures financing from HSBC - the only big UK bank not in the Funding for Lending Scheme

Panasonic targets operating profit margin of 5% by fiscal 2016.

Nationwide's house price index shows government credit easing schemes - such as Help to Buy - is boosting demand and prices

Fund managers Miles Geldard & Lee Manzi say Government bond investors will pay the price for monetary policies

Shuanghui will pay $4.7bn in cash for Smithfield Foods, the largest takeover of a US company by China.

BDRC Continental's SME Finance Monitor shows almost two thirds of SMEs unaware of Funding for Lending Scheme.

Chancellor George Osborne closes loophole that allows energy firms to claim money back against installation costs

Speaking with IBTimes UK on camera, Arian Silver CEO Jim Williams debates about what's behind silver falling under peak levels, the landscape for supply and demand and future resources.

Industrial output rose 0.8% in April from March, less than economists' expectations of 1.0%.

The sales balance of CBI's monthly distributive survey declines to minus 11 in May from minus 1 in April.

The services sector grew 3.2%, counterbalancing a 0.2% dip in the production of goods.

OECD says UK Chancellor's public spending cuts programme is "appropriate" despite waning economic outlook.

The number of jobless Germans rises above estimates to 2.96 million in May.

An interest-rate cut could be the need of the hour to fill a 'physical' and an 'economic' hole that emerges owing to slowing mining activity and investments.

Exploration and development company chairman details what’s next for one of the European Commission’s critical mineral fluorspar