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April showers blamed as shoppers take the month off
Heavy rain and storms were blamed for the decline. Experts had forecast a drop of 0.4 per cent.
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MARKET REPORT: FTSE keeps on falling as rate cut hopes recede
It fell 0.3 per cent - a fourth consecutive day of losses and sank into the red for a second week in a row, not long after it passed 8400 for the...
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ALEX BRUMMER: Weak enforcers betray UK
There is a reluctance to put up barriers to foreign takeovers because they suggest the country is not open to business.
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Royal Mail £350m in red but 'back on track', according to owner
The results came days before a crunch deadline that could see the 508-year-old firm fall into foreign ownership for the first time.
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Cadbury owner Mondelez fined €337.5m by EU for anti-competitive practices
The confectionery giant, formerly Kraft Foods, was discovered to have unlawfully restricted cross-border trade of certain products.
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Abrdn boss Stephen Bird quits asset manager
Stephen Bird has stepped down as the investment group's chief executive, but will remain at the company until the end of June to enable a smooth...
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Coventry's £750m takeover of Co-op Bank confirmed
The West Midlands group agreed to buy the Co-op Bank last month in a £780million deal to create Britain's seventh-largest lender, with millions of...
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AJ Bell shares slip as founder Andy Bell flogs £28.1m stake
AJ Bell shares fell on Friday after the investment platform's co-founder sold a large chunk of shares.
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BUSINESS LIVE: Co-op Bank takeover agreed; Abrdn boss to exit; Washout April for retail sales
Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Coventry Building Society, Co-Op Bank, Abrdn John Wood Group and GSK.
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MARKET REPORT: Water shares suffer election call washout
A day after Rishi Sunak said called an election on July 4, shares in Severn Trent, United Utilities and South West Water owner Pennon tumbled.
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Utilities shares sink as investors weigh surprise general election
London-listed utilities shares sank on Thursday as investors digested the looming general election.
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Boost for GSK as US court rejects woman's claims heartburn drug Zantac caused her cancer
A jury in Chicago agreed with GSK that Angela Valadez, 89, had not proven her colon cancer was at least in part the result of her Zantac use.