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Tesco giant has been revealed as the ultimate seller of a range of goods – including DVDs and computer games – marketed on Amazon under the trading name of Oakwood Distribution Ltd. Oakwood is a subsidiary of Tesco.

In what would be the sixth round of quantitative easing, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee is likely to take the total of its money-creation programme to a minimum of £325 billion, the equivalent of more than 22 per cent of gross domestic product.

Independent shop owners are lining up to condemn Government plans to raise business rates as Financial Mail’s Reduce Our Rates campaign continues to attract a groundswell of support this weekend.

Any number of good-looking mergers have fallen apart because boardrooms didn’t want to give way. So we must listen a bit more seriously to the merger plans of Glencore and Xstrata.

According to Facebook’s flotation prospectus last week, its users have registered 100 billion ‘friendships’ since the social network was founded in 2007. But if Facebook floats at anything like the values suggested, it will have to meet some very high hopes. If it fails, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will need every friend he can get.

Swedish bank Handelsbanken, which has been operating in Britain for 29 years and has 119 branches, has been unable to award a share of profits to 900 British staff last year because of tax avoidance legislation introduced in the 2011 Finance Act.

Financial Mail has discovered several websites featuring pictures of young women laden with colourful shopping bags, though the industry claimed last week it was capable of 'setting the standard of self-regulation and consumer credit'.

The results of a year-long investigation into controversial extended warranties are about to be published – raising fresh doubts over their value to consumers and the way in which they are sold.

Text spammers – mass senders of unsolicited texts – come in many guises. But from this month they face fines of up to £500,000 as the authorities attempt to clamp down on a fast-growing problem.

Germany’s real achievement at last week's EU summit was the inclusion in the fiscal compact of what amounts to a balanced budget rule on eurozone countries. If implemented (a big if) it would be a cast-iron guarantee of permanent austerity.

The Arch Cru scandal is probably the most damaging affair to hit the retail investment fund management industry since Morgan Grenfell fund manager Peter Young was found to have defrauded investors. The Arch Cru affair – although smaller in scale – has still caused irreparable reputational damage to all parties involved

Government ministers have been accused of trying to gain public favour this week by stripping former RBS chief Fred Goodwin of his knighthood and pressurising RBS boss Stephen Hester to reject a £1million bonus.

The Government is looking for 12 areas to share £1million funding in a bid to regenerate town centres and high streets as part of last year’s review by Mary Portas.

Many who have sick cats and dogs will be unable to find pet insurance elsewhere, as other firms will not cover animals that have already been treated.

The FSA found that some firms did not fully assess how appropriate an agreement would be for the customer and simply allowed them to enter into it because they wanted to.

Each year, around 450,000 people use their accrued pension to pay an insurance company for an annuity that gives them an income for life. The National Association of Pension Funds describes it as a ‘toxic’ system that short-changes thousands of people every day.