While our pay cheques shrink, corporate giants are hightailing it to tax havens. Nick Curtis travels to the Swiss lakeside town where Boots, Glencore and nearly 30,000 other businesses are now based, to ask why they won't pay tax in Britain ... more
A Chinese car giant recognisable to practically nobody in the West has again stepped in to bailout a major, struggling brand in the form of Saab... more
Video: The Government will back Ford and Nissan with nearly £2 billion to develop electric cars and environmentally-friendly engines in Britain, safeguarding thousands of jobs... more
Jaguar Land Rover received a £175 million cash injection of private funding and the carmaker’s Indian owners Tata said it is no longer seeking state support ... more
There was a curious sight outside the Saatchi Gallery on the Kings Road at lunchtime a couple of days ago. A group of a dozen or so grown men, and a few well-groomed women, excitedly gathered around two new gleaming Jaguar cars, which had stopped by the kerb... more
It may be cutting costs to the bone back home in the Midlands but Jaguar Land Rover is not shy of extravagance when it needs to keep up appearances... more
Loss-making car manufacturer Saab is to be bailed out by the European taxpayer and end up in the hands of fellow Swedish company Koenigsegg, the maker of $1-million-a-time supercars... more
The return of King Coal, a kickstart for the stalled wind revolution, the bridging of the UK energy gap - that is three ways of looking at a Budget... more
The number of new cars produced last month in the UK crashed 59% according to new figures, but manufacturers can still survive, Lord Mandelson has said... more
Finance: The International Monetary Fund said it welcomed the joint package by three global banks to help eastern European banks and businesses, and would continue to support crisis countries on a macroeconomic level... more
Engineering: Nissan plans to tap capital markets, seek government loans and sell property to conserve cash as it faces its first loss in nine years... more
A recession is upon us. For many consumers, business leaders and politicians, it's the first they can remember. Gordon Brown has portrayed himself as saviour of the universe; Boris has his recovery plan. But are our leaders making the right decisions for the economy - above all in London? ... more
Banking: Britain's clearing banks speed up their promises of more help for small business as the Government drops plans to force them to lend more under new legislation... more
Budget report: The enthusiasm of small businesses for the Pre-Budget Report's £7 billion recession package was being dampened today as companies examined the small print... more
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling provoked a fresh war with Britain's banks as they insisted that small businesses benefit from the £35billion bail-out... more
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