More than 100 Conservatives are among MPs who have written to the prime minister calling on him to slash subsidies for onshore wind turbines.

The more young people come into contact with employers the less likely they are to drop out of school and become unemployed, research suggests.

The Nasdaq stock index surged to its highest level in 11 years, after data showed US unemployment fell significantly in January.

The chief of the world's second-biggest consumer goods company has defended his position on scrapping the firm's final salary pension scheme.

Stripping Fred Goodwin of his title was unquestionably a piece of political theatre, one callously contrived to appease the public supposedly howling for bankers' blood. It's been done as a conceit to buy future votes and has more in common with the way those in the Wild West scalped their victims than the judicial process you would expect to find in a mature democracy like the UK.

Leading City institutions fear that the new Financial Services Bill, which is being debated tomorrow, fails to include a clause which will allow the proposed regulation enough scope to protect the UK's international competitiveness.

A titanic transatlantic battle over the British remnants of the banking empire once headed by the disgraced Texan financier Allen Stanford is being fought out in the UK criminal and supreme courts.

Facebook is planning to announce that advertising will soon be allowed on its mobile apps, a move designed to bolster its flotation price.

BP's chief executive, Bob Dudley, is expected to increase the oil giant's dividend for the first time since it was reinstated for the end of 2010 after a six-month suspension.

Bank charges for transferring money overseas cost British business £356m a year.

British fund managers have started buying Italian bonds again, after European Central Bank moves to make investment less risky.

Xstrata shareholders will take advantage of a technicality in the takeover process to seal better terms in its "merger of equals" with Glencore, a deal that would create a £50bn mining giant.

The Bank of England will pump at least £50bn into the economy this week, as rate-setters look to evade a double-dip recession.

Here's a puzzle: can the UK manage to continue its, albeit scruffy, recovery this year if the eurozone slips back into recession? It is a question that the Bank of England's monetary committee will have to contemplate this week as it decides whether to approve the next bout of quantitative easing. But of course it is a much bigger issue, in that to goes to the heart of the long-term strategic issue for Britain as to what extent it should seek to decouple its economy from Europe.

Game Group has set a deadline of Friday for first-round bids to acquire its overseas business, amid speculation that it faces a combined payment to suppliers of up to £250m this month.

In seeking billions of pounds in a stock market flotation announced last week, Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is following in a long line of entrepreneurs who have found they need outside money to develop their businesses – and have sold out.

The banking results season gets into high gear this week as Barclays prepares to face the press, the public and its investors. With the firestorm over the bonus awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland's boss Stephen Hester barely having abated, it promises to be a fraught and fractious few weeks in the banking industry.

In profit ...

In this week's Your Money, Declan Curry looks problems with pensions, considers the benefits of credit unions and gets some top tips on how to manage your money.

The government is looking for 12 run down High Streets in England to share £1m as a part of plans proposed by TV retail guru Mary Portas.