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STANDARD Life has raised the spectre of job cuts after laying out plans to strip £100 million in costs from the business over the next two years.

ALLIANCE Trust has spent £19.7 million on its own shares after publisher DC Thomson put part of its stake in the firm up for sale.

CITY minister Lord Myners warned yesterday against "regulatory hypochondria" from Brussels that might demonise private equity and hedge funds.

A RISING demand for repairs to mobile phones and other electronic gadgets in Scotland is driving strong sales growth at Regenersis, the Aim-listed firm said yesterday.

IN STARK contrast to the economic woes on our doorstep, figures yesterday showed exports from China had grown by almost 46 per cent last month, writes Scott Reid.

GORDON Brown's attempt to persuade voters yesterday that the government is steering a successful path to recovery was immediately thrown into doubt by official figures sho

BELEAGURED music company EMI has given chairman Charles Allen executive control of the business in the wake of the pending departure of Elio Leoni-Sceti, chief executive of EM

THE government's imminent reform of pensions tax relief has been branded "ridiculous" and "dangerous" by the industry's biggest lobby group.

ROYAL Bank of Scotland yesterday announced a further boardroom reshuffle with the appointment of Brendan Nelson, a high-ranking accountant from KPMG, as a non-executive direct

SCOTLAND'S hotel sector started the year with the weakest performance of anywhere throughout the UK, reversing a relatively solid period during 2009.

SCOTTISH Enterprise has sold Atlas, its controversial fibre telecommunications network, to Scottish & Southern Energy.

SHARES in Barclays edged higher yesterday despite speculation that the group is looking to buy a retail bank in the US to build on its successful investment banking business

LEEDS Group has tightened its control over Kinross-based textiles firm Dawson International after pushing through the appointment of David Bolton as chairman.

INVESTMENT trusts have long come a distant second to unit trusts in the sales charts, handicapped by the absence of commission for advisers recommending them.

STANDARD Life's Asian business may have turned a loss of £35 million in 2008 into a £6m profit last year. However, don't expect new Standard chief executive David Nish

WITH a number of their members seeing their single farm payments being cut by thousands of pounds on account of failings in their bookwork, NFU Scotland has repeated its deman

FURTHER consolidation in the animal health world market emerged this week with the news that North America's Merck & Co and Europe's Sanofi-Aventis, two of the wor

MULTINATIONAL car dealer Inchcape yesterday posted a smaller-than-expected fall in 2009 profit, helped by cost-cutting and market share gains, but said it did not see a recove

THE effects of the winter were seen yesterday by visitors to Scotland's first grassland development farm at Hilltarvit Mains, Cupar.