Author: Nathan Bissitt

With the population ageing in most rich countries round the world, these should in theory be bumper times for Smith & Nephew, Europe’s largest maker of artificial knees, shoulders and hips. Unfortunately, the company – a member of the FTSE-100 since

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A thousand more high street jobs are at risk as the womenswear group behind the Jacques Vert and Precis brands prepares to call in administrators less than a year after its last rescue deal. Sky News revealed earlier on Thursday that Calvetron Brands Limited, which

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Virgin Media has announced 500 job losses under a planned shake-up of its UK sites. The telecoms company, which currently operates from more than 100 locations, said its eight customer service centres would be reduced to four. The biggest loss would be a major call

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The “largest ever” European policing operation has led to 20,000 packages of counterfeit goods being seized as police shut a network of illegal shops operating from social media platforms. Known by the code name Operation Aphrodite, the crackdown involved

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Leading Trump administration officials have arrived in China for talks aimed at defusing tensions that threaten to plunge the world’s two biggest economies into a damaging trade war. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross are

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Regulators will pursue an investigation into Cambridge Analytica despite the data firm announcing its collapse. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which has been looking into the British firm’s handling of data harvested from millions of Facebook

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Tesla shares plummeted after CEO Elon Musk called an analyst a “boring bonehead” as he answered questions about a record net loss. Shares fell 5% – about £1.8bn – in after-hours trading in the seconds after the electric car company chief

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Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the centre of the Facebook data row, has announced it is “ceasing all operations” and declaring bankruptcy.. The British company said it had been “the subject of numerous unfounded accusations”

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English rugby giant Wasps have been forced to line up a new auditor after an overstatement of its profits‎ triggered a breach of its agreements with lenders. Sky News has learnt that ‎Wasps Holdings will announce on Thursday that it intends to appoint Mazars, an

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