BP steps up cost cutting as profits slide

Megan LawtonBusiness reporter AFP via Getty Images One UK study found that 34% of advertised vacancies didn’t really exist The phrase “ghost jobs” might sound like something from Halloween, but it refers to the practice of employers advertising vacancies that don’t exist. In some cases the positions may have already been filled, but in others…

US investment group RedBird Capital has pulled out of a deal to buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £500m. RedBird had a previous attempt to buy the Telegraph rebuffed by politicians as it was majority-funded by Abu Dhabi’s IMI group – which is owned in turn by the Abu Dhabi royal family. A law…