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Coffee shop empire Starbucks has been ordered by return tips totalling $100 million to its workers.

The administrators of Carter & Carter have said that shareholders should not expect a penny.

Minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee's March meeting reveal differences of opinion.

In 2006, the UK’s gross domestic expenditure on research and development (R&D) was £23.2 billion.

The trend in the employment rate is increasing but unemployment and inactivity rates are falling.

CPI annual inflation was 2.5 per cent in February, up from 2.2 per cent in January.

Retail sales in Central London in February were 10.5 per cent higher than a year earlier.

Changes have been announced to the ‘basket of goods’ used to calculate the Retail Price Index.

Trust in official figures has not improved significantly since 2005, a survey shows.

A businessman has been jailed for 18 months for illegally exporting navigation devices to Iran.

Internet firm Yahoo! is preparing to move its European headquarters from London to Geneva.

London’s financial services are still hiring, albeit at a slower pace than this time last year.

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