Author: Nathan Bissitt

Seven days after the rise in base rates, just 15 out of 150 providers have passed on improved returns to their savers.The Bank of England raised rates by 0.25% to 0.5% last Thursday, the first rise in a decade.Many banks are still considering whether to pass on the

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House prices are now falling in four areas of the country, according to the latest report from chartered surveyors.The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) has said that prices are declining in London, the South East, East Anglia and north-east

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The executive chairman of 21st Century Fox has said the firm is big enough to compete in a shifting media landscape.Executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch made the remarks after reports that the Murdoch family had talked about selling parts of the business to Disney.Mr

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The Trump administration has reportedly demanded sale of assets such as CNN before it would approve an $85bn (£65bn) Time Warner and AT&T merger.Reports of the negotiations came as an AT&T executive said he no longer expects the deal to close this

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Some of the UK’s biggest firms are being urged to do more to recruit women into senior positions. The call came in a government-backed review which found that FTSE 100 companies were “on course” to meet a voluntary 33% target for women on boards by

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Talks over the possible sale of the film production company co-founded by Harvey Weinstein have fallen through, the BBC has learned.The Weinstein Company had entered into a preliminary deal with US private equity firm Colony Capital.However, it is understood Colony

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Former top executives at Yahoo and Equifax have apologised again for breaches that exposed billions of customer accounts.But US lawmakers were impatient with after-the-fact contrition and said they want proof that the firms are taking cyber security more

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