International Business Times

A leading indicator of the state of global trade, whose biggest dips have come just before global recessions, is dropping like a lead anchor.Since the first business day of the year, the Baltic Dry...

Having enjoyed a bounce in the polls following a good start to 2012 the last seven days have added up one of the worst weeks in David Cameron's political career with tensions rising with coalition...

In what could be a very favourable push towards its diversification plans, the Belinga iron ore deposit, Gabon's largest iron ore project, is already likely to fall into the hands of Australian mining...

The slowing global economy could potentially affect the construction and start-up operations of BHP Billiton's $20 billion expansion into the Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine.On Monday night,...

The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) have doubtlessly by now taken note that their path to Independence is not going to be as smooth as they had been allowed to believe, between their spectacular May...

The chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has succumbed to pressure and agreed to give up his bonus payment of almost £1m.Stephen Hester decided to sacrifice the award of 3.6...

The much awaited listing of Polyus International Limited in the is now preceded by reports that the company is mulling merger talks with fellow and rival Polymetal International PLC.Polymetal...

The boss of retail chain WH Smith has remained positive in the face of a drop in high street sales.The company's Christmas trading update revealed a six percent drop in high street sales and a three...

O2 has issued an apology for the major security flaw which saw the mobile network accidently leak users' mobile phone numbers to every website they visited.The mobile network blames technical changes...

Scotland's first minister has called for 16 and 17-year-olds to be eligible to vote in a referendum on Scottish independence.Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party, announced the Scottish...

One of the original Labour Party rebels from the 1980s, Lord Owen, has sided with his old party to thwart the coalition government's health reforms.A leaked email from Owen and obtained by the...

Unfortunately for British beer drinkers Starbucks will not be selling booze in its UK coffee shops, despite trialing this in some of its US stores.A spokeswoman for Starbucks UK told International...

Sixteen pubs a week are now closing in Britain, spurring campaigners to demand that the government acts quickly.Community pubs that play an important role both economically and socially are closing...

Petrol supplies and jobs in the southeast of England are under threat as the company that owns an oil refinery accounting for 20 percent of the region's fuel goes bankrupt.In addition to around 900...

English people do not support Scottish independence, though they would allow Scotland to control its own finances, according to a new survey.Just 22 percent of the 1,507 English people surveyed by the...

Call it the calm after the storm.If volatility, panic and the resulting tightening of investors' purses was the credit market's narrative in the second half of 2011, a dearth of bad news since Jan. 1...