Business News

NatWest Group is closing in on a £2.5bn takeover of Evelyn Partners, the wealth management group, in what would be its biggest corporate takeover since its taxpayer bailout in 2008.

Morrisons, the UK's fifth-largest supermarket chain, is exploring a £1bn property deal amid its battle to recapture the ground it has lost to rivals including Sainsbury's and Aldi.

Anthropic, one of the biggest and most influential tech companies in the world, is launching a new model: Claude Opus 4.6.

Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, is not given to emotional outbursts or shooting from the hip.

The Bank of England has held interest rates at 3.75% but signalled that further cuts are now "likely" later in the year as inflation falls back to the Bank's 2% target faster than expected.

The Bank of England's decision to hold interest rates was short on action but strong on signals that a rate cut this spring is now more likely than not.

Northern towns could be in line for a funding boost after complaints from MPs that a new system for allocating cash to councils favours London.

John Healey, the defence secretary, has held urgent talks with the boss of Leonardo, the Italian defence contractor, amid fears for thousands of jobs at a military helicopter factory in Somerset.

The housebuilder Barratt Redrow, Heathrow Airport and the outsourcing giant Mitie are among a group of businesses backing the launch of a coalition aimed at tackling barriers to investment in local areas across Britain.

US newspaper The Washington Post is making a third of its staff redundant, bosses at the title have said.