Malcolm Calvert, a former partner at Cazenove, has been sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for insider dealing in the shares of three UK companies.

Dave Gilmour’s wish for people not to “take a slice of my pie” in Pink Floyd’s hit Money was fulfilled today as the band triumphed in a court battle with its record label.

European airport authorities subsidise Ryanair to the tune of at least €11 (£10) per passenger, Air France-KLM claimed today as it filed a lawsuit in Brussels against the low-cost carrier.

Johnston Press warned today that further job losses at the regional newspaper group were “inevitable” as its pre-tax profits fell 56 per cent last year to £43 million.

You’re at work, on holiday, or halfway through a vital conversation about last night’s television. Suddenly, you realise the phone’s battery is about to run out. It’s a very modern disaster, but one that could soon be at an end.

An estimated 24,000 clients of HSBC Private Bank in Switzerland had personal details stolen in a data theft three years ago, a far higher number than originally thought and "highly likely" to include British customers, the bank acknowledged today.

Consumers expect inflation to fall back to 2.5 per cent over the next year, figures indicate today, in some welcome news for the Bank of England.

Toyota was forced today to turn over to United States congressional investigators a “smoking gun” memo produced by its own factory workers that warned management as far back as 2006 of systemic threats to car safety.

Staff at John Lewis Partnership are to share a bonus payment of £151.3 million, after the retail group reported a 9.7 per cent rise in full year pre-tax profits to £306.6 million.

AstraZeneca today unveiled its first partnership with a generics drugs maker, a move that gives it a fresh portfolio of cheap medicines to sell in developing markets as it braces for the loss of patents on several blockbuster medicines.

Investment in 3-D technology led Cineworld, the cinema chain, to report robust profits for the year, with strong ticket sales leading to an 11.5 per cent increase in revenues to £333.4 million for the 53 weeks to December 31.

The Red Knights, the group of investors seeking to buy Manchester United from the Glazer family, confirmed today that they had recruited Nomura, the investment bank, to advise them.

Home Retail Group, the owner of Argos and Homebase, admitted today to a drop in sales at both since the beginning of 2010, but insisted that full-year profits were likely to be better than expected.

The chief executive of Old Mutual promised further asset sales from the Anglo-South African group's sprawling financial empire as he unveiled a partial float for its US asset manager and a sale of the American life arm.

JD Wetherspoon, the pubs operator, reported record first-half profits of £36.2 million today and said that it would restore the dividend payments that it suspended one year ago after the recession yielded a collapse in trade.

BP, the oil company, has acquired a string of assets in Brazil from Devon Energy, a US company, in a $7 billion ($£4.2 billion) deal that has placed it at the centre of one of the most promising regions in the world for oil exploration.

Wm Morrison, Britain’s fourth-biggest supermarket chain, promised today to open more small stores as it confirmed that its new chief executive, Dalton Philips, would take up his role on March 29.

Japan's gambling industry is expected to be an unlikely beneficiary of a national child subsidy scheme, which aims to shower parents with cash and encourage young couples to start families.

The building of a high-speed rail network linking London, Birmingham and the great conurbations of the North, to be outlined in Parliament today, would cost at least £2 billion a year for more than a decade, The Times has learnt.

Gordon Brown really did save the world economy in the autumn of 2008, when he became the first leader of a leading nation to offer unlimited government guarantees to every bank in the country. But does the success of the bold financial policies he adopted 18 months ago make him the right leader for Britain in the recovery phase that now lies ahead? That was the central claim of the big speech the Prime Minister delivered at Canary Wharf yesterday.

BP has emerged as a front-runner to buy $5 billion ($£3.3 billion) of oil assets from Devon Energy, the independent US oil and gas producer.

Roy Stanley, the former chairman of Tanfield Group, is orchestrating an unusual plan to take over the company’s main electric vehicles division in a £70 million conditional proposal that sent its shares racing 46 per cent higher.

London Underground must find an extra £460 million to finance the upgrade of the Northern and Piccadilly lines.

Shares in Tullett Prebon jumped almost 26 per cent as the inter-dealer broker (IDB) said that it was in the sights of a predator. At yesterday’s 390p closing price, the company, run by Terry Smith, is worth £840 million.

The boom in school and hospital building is over and the future of civil engineering is nuclear, according to Costain, the engineering and construction group.