Ryanair Holdings Plc has been given a telling off by the UK’s advertising watchdog for making “misleading” claims about its carbon emissions. Ads claiming Ryanair is “Europe’s… lowest emissions airline” must be withdrawn because the Irish carrier did not fully substantiate this and other environmental boasts, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found. As the climate crisis intensifies, Ryanair probably won’t ...

One big argument against Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to re-nationalise large chunks of the British economy was that it would prove eye-wateringly expensive. Yet one of the companies in the sights of the opposition Labour Party’s leader, Royal Mail Plc, is turning out to be anything but. The postal operator’s heavily shorted shares plunged 9% on February 6 to a fresh ...

Crude oil has had a grim start to the year, with prices hovering around $50 per barrel as China’s coronavirus epidemic shuts down swathes of the world’s second-largest economy. A rebound akin to the one that followed the end of the Sars outbreak is unlikely this time. Back in 2003, China was on a growth trajectory. The economy was also ...