Siobhan Kennedy is the Business Editor, 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.
Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008, from The Times. As a newspaper reporter she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent, and before that the Mergers and Private Equity Correspondent. Before The Times, Siobhan worked for Reuters based in London and New York.
If you want find a bargain online you might think you should Google it. But if you do that you might not be getting what you bargained for. The European Commission has just slapped a massive £2.1 billion fine on Google for putting its own price comparison adverts at the very top of its search…
It will be the first case of its kind in Britain: four senior bankers facing criminal charges over their money-raising operations during the 2008 financial crash. After a five-year investigation, the Serious Fraud Office has accused the men – and the bank itself – of fraud over arrangements with Qatari investors to help Barclays Bank…
It’s difficult to overstate the significance of the Serious Fraud Office’s charges against Barclays PLC and the four senior Barclays bankers- including John Varley, its former boss and one of the most high profile names in the City.
The cost of living has soared to its highest level in four years, increasing the squeeze on consumers. Inflation in May rose to 2.9%, higher than expected and fuelled by the rising cost of things like food, clothes, computers and toys. It means prices are going up faster than wages for many people, and there’s…
The turmoil in the political world has also emboldened business leaders, many of whom had doubts about the hard Brexit that Mrs May seemed to want before the election. Now they see a window of opportunity to shift the Prime Minister’s thinking on the single market, the customs union and the control of immigration. But…
A tumultuous night on the markets: the pound has slid still further against the dollar and the Euro – although the result has sent share prices up.
The think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has said both the Conservatives and the Labour Party aren’t being honest about the economic consequences of their manifesto proposals. It didn’t look at the manifestos of the Lib Dems, Ukip and other parties. The IFS warned that the Tories’ pledges to boost NHS spending may well be…
There have been scenes of jubilation in Nigeria after 82 of the so-called Chibok school girls kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram were reunited with their parents.
The Government has sold its remaining shares in Lloyds Banking Group, returning the bank fully into private hands. Lloyds received a £20bn taxpayer bailout at the height of the financial crash eight years ago. The bank says that has now been repaid in full, but not everyone is happy. Channel 4 News has been talking…
The plan had been for the Chancellor and the Lloyds bank boss Antonio Horta-Osorio to go on a walkabout at an apprenticeship training centre in Coventry. A mutual back-slapping moment to celebrate, almost a decade on, the return of the once beleaguered Lloyds into private ownership. But the general election happened and purdah rules knocked…
It seems the malware the hackers used was a sophisticated virus called Wanna Decryptor. It shuts down files on a victim’s computer then tries to blackmail them in exchange for restoring access to their files.
The former editor and columnist Kelvin MacKenzie is set to leave the Sun newspaper. It comes as Ofcom reviews a bid by Rupert Murdoch to take over Sky.
The sexual harassment scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel was the subject of an Ofcom hearing today. It is currently considering Mr Murdoch’s bid to take over Sky.
Another senior executive has quit his job at Fox News in the wake of the sexual harassment scandal that forced out former chairman Roger Ailes and one of the network’s biggest on-screen stars.
The leaked account of Mrs May’s dinner with Mr Juncker suggests the two sides could hardly be further apart on every key issue at stake – and on the speed at which any kind of agreement can be reached. Siobhan Kennedy is in Downing Street.