UK to sign nearly £2.4 billion in trade deals with China

(Reuters) Britain said on Friday that it was about to sign commercial deals with China worth more than 2.4 billion pounds, as Chancellor George Osborne prepared to meet China’s Vice Premier Ma Kai in London. Full details of the prospective transactions were not...

Pound falls on fears of Scottish independence (08/09/2014)

The currency fell 1% against the dollar in early trading to $1.6159, and also fell almost 1% against the euro to 1.2480 euros. It came after a YouGov poll suggested supporters of an independent Scotland had taken a narrow lead in the referendum debate for the first...

Investors see start-up future in the middle-aged (07/09/2014)

Forget about ivy-league college dropouts or teenage maths geniuses: the evidence points to a maturing industry with older entrepreneurs building highly successful technology enterprises from scratch. “One of the interesting things we’re starting to see...