Tesco has said a focus on value amid the continuing squeeze on shoppers' budgets has paid off through a rise in half-year profits.

Banks could be given extra time to investigate suspicious payments in an effort to curb fraud.

Israel is fighting on at least four fronts, threatening a war across the oil-rich Middle East, but there is no great sense of fear yet as far as financial markets are concerned.

Compass Group, the FTSE-100 catering giant which counts the Wimbledon tennis championships among its most prestigious contracts, is in talks with its investors about increasing its boss's potential pay package by millions of pounds a year.

A former senior executive at Harrods has abandoned plans to become the new boss of Fenwick.

A prolonged strike by US port workers risks a new wave of freight-led inflation, according to experts.

Saga, the London-listed financial services and travel provider for over-50s consumers, is in detailed talks with one of Europe's biggest insurers about a deal that will allow it to repay a chunk of its huge debt pile.

John Foley, the former M&G Investments chief executive, is to become the next chairman of an early-stage investor which counts the location-mapping company What3Words among its portfolio.

A provider of advanced communications technology which aids soldiers on the battlefield will this week announce a $44m (£33m) fundraising led by an investor which counts the former defence secretary, Ben Wallace, as its newest recruit.

The Post Office was a "mess" run by executives and government appointees who "dragged their feet" in efforts to compensate and exonerate sub-postmasters, the former chairman has told the public inquiry.