Helia Ebrahimi , Economics Correspondent

Top bankers at Barclays made secret payments to Qatar in exchange for £4 billion to stave off a government bailout during the 2008 financial crisis, a court has been told.

A no-deal Brexit would create a “1930s-style contraction” according to the head of UK Finance, which represents banks and financial services.

There are growing fears about the future of a planned nuclear power station in North Wales, after reports that negotiations between the Japanese company Hitachi and the British government have run into trouble.

Life is getting ever tougher on Britain’s high streets. Retailers have just gone through their weakest Christmas trading for a decade. Buffeted by high business rates and online rivals, retailers are also complaining that the political turmoil over Brexit is making consumers cautious. Even at mighty John Lewis, times are so tough that they said today…

Apple shares have dropped by nearly 10 per cent on Wall Street today, after the chief executive warned of disappointing sales. 

It’s been an unhappy new year for long-suffering rail passengers, with average ticket prices in England and Wales shooting up by 3.1%, slightly less in Scotland, and punctuality at its lowest for 13 years. There were protests outside some stations and one campaign group described it as a “kick in the wallet”. But are ministers…

It won’t be a Merry Christmas at the online clothing retailer Asos. The company’s share price crashed this morning, after it warned it had experienced a “significant deterioration” in trading, with particularly poor sales in November.

A hundred thousand people in England attempted suicide because of problem debts last year, according to research by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute.

The number of people arriving from EU countries has dropped over the last year, according to figures out today.

He’s one of the most senior figures in the car industry and he’s now under arrest. Carlos Ghosn, the Brazilian-born chairman of Nissan, credited with reviving its fortunes over the past two decades, was detained on allegations of under-reporting his own income and misusing company assets. Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault, a three-way alliance of carmakers, all led…

We’ve been to talk to some of the top advertising gurus in the country to ask how they’d sell Britain to the world after the political crisis has finally passed.

The small amount handed out to schools shows just how tight the government finances remain.

The Chancellor Philip Hammond has said the announcements in tomorrow’s budget will only apply if there’s a Brexit deal. Failure to secure agreement with the EU would demand a “different response”, he said, but he promised there are reserves available if that happens.

The drawn out death of the High Street has claimed another victim as Debenhams will cut as many as 5000 jobs and 50 stores to concentrate on its most profitable sites.

Now, you might expect that opportunities for young people to get training and find jobs would be more in abundance around the towns and cities in the south of the UK. Well according to some new figures from the Learning and Work Institute – seen by Channel 4 News ahead of their release – it…