Prognosis is for further financial pain for chronic GlaxoSmithKline shareholders

Further price surprises loom while fossil fuel groups are set to endure for decades

A much wider definition of national security would be politically intoxicating

Multitude of offers to borrowers reflects the desperate state of the mortgage sector

The risk for the industry is that car ownership is losing its appeal for young urban residents

Prosecution case centred on climate change tax requires willing suspension of disbelief

Challenges facing the peer-to-peer lender also reveal UK obsession with property

Defensive tie-ups such as this one do not deal with basic issues of businesses under threat

Merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management has not been a winner for shareholders

Add defaults to soaring oil and ECB tightening, and you have the makings of a crash

Anglo-Dutch company’s board is fortunate to have avoided official defeat

When preparing for Brexit, follow the lead of Next chief Wolfson

America calls for pension funds and Tesco ups the ante for grocers

Anglo-Dutch business is expected to drop out of the FTSE 100

Funding Circle and Aston Martin head the list of forthcoming IPOs

Loss of a major component of Britain’s top index is a blow to the City

UK competition watchdog needs to ignore smokescreen of store disposals and specious maths

Crystal balls in the oil market are looking cloudy

Hiring a former UK regulator suggests the accountancy firm recognises its challenges

Government accounting sleight of hand when it comes to student loans

Marks and Spencer’s absence of quarterly reporting gets analysts worked up

Paying down debt buys no bragging rights for miners

Much is at stake beyond losing a major constituent of the FTSE 100

No strategy for getting a Bank Rate that balances interests of lenders and borrowers

Pulling plug on Swansea barrage would avoid adding to Hinkley Point and Wylfa mistakes