ECONOMY

UK's opposition Ed Miliband plans to overhaul the banking system

Labour leader would freeze energy prices and abolish bedroom tax to support incomes.

Gravity, 12 Years A Slave, and American Hustle secure a heavy clutch of Oscar nominations

Smaller retailers defy UK consumer finances gloom to report surprise solid growth in sales.

AAB hopes to raise $300m on Hong Kong Stock Exchange by June 2014.

The number of visitors flocking to London last summer soared by a massive 20 percent, leading tourism chiefs to predict that the total tally for 2013 will tip over the 16 million mark, making it the most popular city to visit in the world - superseding Paris and New York.

Forfeiture is largest ever in US involving cryptocurrency.

Economists predict that Mark Carney could consider interest rate rise sooner than predicted.

Foreign secretary William Hague is in Glasgow to deliver a paper on Scotland's EU membership chances.

GCHQ also found to have used Dishfire program to tap Britons' communications.

US Senate Approves $1.1tn Spending Bill to Avert Shutdown

LSL Property Services shows 8.8% rise in annual returns on rental property for UK landlords

Chancellor suggests above inflation increase to counter Labour's "cost of living crisis" attacks on UK recovery.

Business Secretary highlights plight of UK industry as it struggles to manage ever-rising energy bills.

Governor acts on promise to boost credit to Britain's economy.

IBTimes UK looks at some of the greatest risks facing the world in 2014

Overall luxury spending fell by 15% while spending on gifts declined 25%.

Sants is the former head of compliance at Barclays' and ex- head of the FSA

Number of homes sold per chartered surveyor in December at highest since March 2008.

The YouGov survey found 26% of respondents would vote for the UK Independence Party

The IMRG/Capgemini e-retail index reveals just how fast growth is in shopping from tablets and smartphones.

Mark Carney undermines Labour leader Ed Miliband's arguments on breaking up banks.

IMF power structure dates back to organisation's founding in 1944.

RBS is 81% owned by the taxpayer but privatisation plans will be scuppered with persistent fiddling

Analysts say rising interest rates and the appreciation in yuan might have created hot money inflows.

IMRG/Capgemini e-retail index shows mobile devices, such as tablets, driving internet sales growth.

The chancellor's threats about leaving Europe are the result of tectonic power shifts from within his party, and from further afield.

Free trade agreement which George Osborne defends will give multinationals power to override governments.

European, American, Japanese and Chinese bets boost returns.