ECONOMY

Greece remains in deflation territory as consumer prices crash.

53% of the senior executives blame economic crisis and political uncertainty for slow-down.

Fitch Ratings casts doubt over effectiveness of Chancellor George Osborne's Help to Buy scheme in boosting housing supply.

Markit Germany Construction PMI declines to 51.5 in July from 54.5 in June.

ABI says insurances companies have processed 2,500 claims. Meanwhile government is criticised for Riot Act compensation

Hellman & Friedman to purchase insurance and brokerage firm Hub for $4.4bn.

ONS: 'no impact' to 0.6% GDP estimate for Q2 as data confirms manufacturing and production output pick up

Emerging markets bank took a one billion dollar hit on the value of its Korean business.

House prices in the three months to July rose 4.6%, compared to a year ago

Greggs said like-for-like sales at its stores were down 2.9%, shaving £4.6m off its pre-tax profit.

UK Asset Resolution repaid nearly £2bn in the first six months of 2013 alone.

Australia is struggling to move away from mining-led growth, prompting the RBA to cut rates.

However, Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr says the city has no plan sell off its 60,000-piece collection.

Australia's central bank cuts cash rate to 2.50%.

BP says it has discovered new evidence of fraud and conflicts of interest in the compensation programme

Banking giant was accused of mis-selling mortgage-backed bonds during US housing bubble.

UK experiences fastest July sales growth since 2006, rising 3.9%

Co-founder of Platform Black says all programmes and incentives to get banks lending to SMEs are falling flat

Britain's opposition party unveils 'full scale of the cost of living crisis'

Citizens Advice, British Retail Consortium, and Martin Lewis welcome the focus shift from prosecution to compensation

Consumer Minister Jo Swinson reveals proposals, amending the Consumer Protection Regulations from Unfair Trading Regulations

EXCLUSIVE: Consumer affairs minister Jo Swinson and Business Secretary Vince Cable reviewing practices but won't seek outright ban

EXCLUSIVE: Business secretary, consumer affairs minister, and Justin Welby to chalk-up draft credit union legislation

London judge orders Formula One Group and CVC to disclose sale documents to German media group Constantin Medien.

State-run China Merchants Holdings to operate huge container terminal in Colombo.

US regulator the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gives BP 30 days to defend itself against claims.

Markit/CIPS service sector PMI soars on rising output, new orders, sales and staffing levels.

Infrastructure and services giant hires cleaning staff on zero-hours contracts for the West Berkshire Council.

TCI said Dassault holdings was 'a poor use of capital.'