The success of the UK economy depends on staying in the EU, the head of the country's biggest business group says.

It is "reasonable" to think interest rates will rise to 5% in "the very long term", a senior Bank of England figure says.

General Motors is recalling nearly half a million vehicles in the US amid concerns over faulty air bags and other issues, the company says.

Labour would transfer £30bn of funding from central to local government to "begin reversing a century of centralisation", Ed Miliband says.

The boss of BNP Paribas writes to staff warning that the French banking giant will be fined heavily by US authorities.

Hundreds of jobs at closure-threatened oil refinery in Milford Haven could be saved after the sale of the site was agreed in principle.

Bulgarian authorities arrest three more people on suspicion of plotting to destabilise the country's banking system.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warns that ultra-low interest rates have lulled governments and markets "into a false sense of security".