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post 17 May 2013
Siobhan Kennedy is the Business Correspondent, and her beat includes everything from industrial action and the long term impact of the recession to where growth is coming from in the economy. Read more from Siobhan Kennedy Are Marks & Spencer missing a trick with online shopping?

Why is Marks & Spencer shunning online retail? Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy explores the growth of online, and if M&S is missing a trick.

article 17 May 2013 UK
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Ocado signs £170m deal with Morrisons

Morrisons supermarket confirms a £170m 25-year tie-up with Ocado, sending the online grocer's shares soaring and potentially enraging its former exclusive partner Waitrose.

post 16 May 2013
Siobhan Kennedy is the Business Correspondent, and her beat includes everything from industrial action and the long term impact of the recession to where growth is coming from in the economy. Read more from Siobhan Kennedy Google in the hot seat - but HMRC feeling the heat

Matt Brittin, Google's boss in northern Europe, will be showing a humble face in front of MPs this morning. But it is the taxman who should face the toughest questions.

article 16 May 2013 World
Amazon's tax bill and government grants revealed (G)
Amazon pays less corporation tax than it got in grants

The UK arm of internet shopping giant Amazon received more money in government grants than it paid in UK corporation tax in 2012, according to new figures revealing the internet giant's accounts.

article 16 May 2013 UK
The HS2 high-speed rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap which the government has yet to decide how to fill, a report from a Whitehall spending watchdog says today.
HS2 rail project faces £3.3bn funding gap, says NAO

The HS2 high-speed rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap which the government has yet to decide how to fill, a report from a Whitehall spending watchdog says today.

article 15 May 2013 World, Bangladesh
Walmart goes it alone with Bangladesh factory safety plan (R)
Walmart opts out of Bangladesh factory safety pledge

Walmart will not join a group of European retailers in a pledge for higher safety standards and puts forward its own safety plan. But Channel 4 News hears Walmart is merely "accepting the status quo".

article 15 May 2013 Business
Unemployment increases for the third time in a row, amid warnings that there are likely to be more job losses in the months ahead (Getty)
Unemployment rises to 2.52 million

Unemployment increases for the third time in a row, amid warnings that there are likely to be more job losses in the months ahead.

article 15 May 2013 UK
The problem with the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report - presented for the last time this week by Sir Mervyn King - is that it feeds the idea that the governor has all the answers.
Sir Mervyn's inflation record: a game of two halves

The problem with the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report - presented for the last time this week by Sir Mervyn King - is that it feeds the idea that the governor has all the answers.

article 15 May 2013 UK
Petrol 'price-fixing': BP and Shell under investigation (R)
Petrol 'price-fixing': inspectors raid BP and Shell offices

BP and Shell offices are raided by inspectors after allegations of collusion over price-fixing, which regulators say may have pushed up the price of petrol over the last ten years.

post 14 May 2013
Siobhan Kennedy is the Business Correspondent, and her beat includes everything from industrial action and the long term impact of the recession to where growth is coming from in the economy. Read more from Siobhan Kennedy Will other retailers follow Primark's lead on Bangladesh?

For the first time since the devastating collapse of a nine-storey factory that killed over 1,120 garment workers on 24 April, Primark is able to peek its head above the parapet.