Physical store non-food sales dropped 0.1% year-on-year in March 2025. Credit: DC Studio/Shutterstock. Total UK retail sales increased 1.1% year-on-year in March, but this was lower than the 3.5% ...

Properties in Scotland move even faster, taking just 21 days on average to sell – about two weeks quicker than the UK average of 34 days. This is primarily attributed to the unique system in Scotland, ...

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is an S&P 500 company and is the largest lodging real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners of luxury and upper-upscale hotels. The Company currently ...

Some UK households may receive letters from HMRC in the coming days as new tax codes are rolled out for the 2025/26 financial year. As the new tax year begins, people may see changes to their tax ...

The discount chain reported like-for-likes in the UK fell 3.1% to £4.5bn in the year to 29 March and were down 2.4% in the final 12 weeks. Across the wider group, the retailer posted a 3.7% ...

US markets have followed European equities lower, despite an initial advance. That’s been led by a slump in health insurers, with the sector anxious it remains in the firing line for global ...

Moderating the slowdown was the end of the temporary break on the Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) on February 15, which put upward pressure on prices for eligible products in ...

Good Morning and welcome to Markets Today. The FTSE 100 is poised to open lower after it ended yesterday up for a fifth consecutive day. That comes as Asia stocks have climbed following positive ...

As such, Nintendo's performance in 2024 has been greatly attributed to a staggering drop of 26% in UK physical game sales. As highlighted by Chris Dring in his latest The Game Business podcast ...

More than 70 MPs and peers have written to the boss of Cadbury-owner Mondelez over selling chocolate in Russia. As millions of Brits tuck into its Easter eggs this weekend, parliamentarians ...

Each tax year, every UK adult currently gets a £20,000 ISA allowance to put money away tax-free in savings via a top cash ISA, or in investments via a shares ISA. He added: “If you don’t use ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...