In this hair-raising chamber version of Sondheim's gory musical chiller about the demon barber of Fleet Street you don't just watch as Sweeney lathers up his victims, you feel the flecks of shaving ...

Barclays chairman Sir David Walker once described his chief executive Antony Jenkins as a mixture of "stainless steel and passion". To sceptics, those may sound like the perfect ingredients for a car ...

Tech companies including Apple, Google and Netflix have been redefining the idea of television for some time. But Amazon's announcement on Wednesday of its Fire TV set-top box was not just about how ...

Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, has suggested Berlin is prepared to speed up the pooling of EU bank rescue funds if levies on banks to finance the system are also raised more swiftly.

A US Senate investigation report last year alleged that Goldman Sachs had used its ownership of a Detroit warehouse company to boost queues to earn more profit by offering incentives. "The LME has ...

Mr Wells, Mr Ellis and Mr Mead have all chosen to quit Zoopla rather than Rightmove. They have been joined by big brands such as Knight Frank and Spicerhaart. Rival Chestertons has chosen to quit ...

An increasingly strong performance by the South West of England helped push growth in business activity in the country in the final quarter of last year to its highest level for at least 12 years, ...

The first magazine with a moving, high-definition video cover will be launched by Jefferson Hack today in an attempt to meld the worlds of print and digital publishing. The creation of the limited ...

"Counterparties and creditors have more knowledge of their counterparts, more skill in evaluating risk and greater incentives than any public regulator will ever have." More than a decade later, Mr ...

Fast-moving consumer goods has replaced banking for the first time as the most popular career for business students worldwide, according to an annual survey by professional services firm Deloitte.

The legacy of the Spanish property collapse continued to weigh on BBVA and Caixabank as the two lenders reported a rise in bad loans and higher provisions for the third quarter. BBVA, Spain's ...

The Qatar Investment Authority, which manages as much as $300bn including significant stakes in Barclays, Credit Suisse and London department store Harrods, has appointed a member of the Qatari royal ...