Fri, 02/16/2018 - 11:16
Growth in sales last month was at its slowest since April 2017 according to the Office for National Statistics with the amount bought in January rising just 0.1%.
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Fri, 02/16/2018 - 11:02
FTSE 250 construction firm Balfour Beatty is part of a joint venture that has scooped a £1.4 billion contract to build a train network at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:41
The firm is gripped in a scuffle with various US drug makers to stop them creating copycat versions of its flagship drug to fight opioid addiction, Suboxone.
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Fri, 02/16/2018 - 08:42
House prices have increased seven times faster in real terms than the average annual salary of a young worker, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 22:00
The aircraft, which can carry 116 fully equipped troops, has been beset by problems, including a fatal crash in 2015. Europe’s largest aerospace group, posted a profit of £3.7bn.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:53
HBSC boss Stuart Gulliver bows out from his £9.7m a-year role next week once he’s delivered the bank’s latest results, an annual task the irascible northerner won’t miss after he’s gone.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
The Canadian firm, which employs 4,200 staff at a plant in Belfast, made a £478m profit last year, up 57 per cent on 2016. It follows a turbulent few months for the business.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
Luxury giant Burberry is offering a service that allows customers to order their favourite items from its 2018 catwalk show and have them delivered within an hour.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
It follows her appointment last year to the board of budget airline EasyJet. The Canadian mother-of-one has run Royal Mail since 2010, and was paid £1.9m between 2016 and 2017.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
Bridgewater is shorting some of the biggest companies on the Continent meaning it will make money if their share prices fall. It suggests a positioning for a slump in markets.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
Predator Melrose may lay claim to being penny pinching accountants but are committed to spending a whopping £139.5m of shareholder funds on advisory and loan fees.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
Broadband internet could soon be beamed into homes, serving 3bn people, by Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the firm won regulatory backing for a new network of satellites.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
The UK capital remains by far the biggest hub of software developers, hosting almost 100,000 more than its closest competitor - Paris, new figures have revealed.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
Scottish Widows said it was pulling a £109bn pot out of the firm, equal to nearly 17 per cent of total assets. Widows gave Aberdeen Asset Management the right to run its money in 2014.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
Advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services said the merger would bring little benefit to Booker’s investors and that it undermined the wholesaler’s value.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:51
GKN, which supplied cannonballs to the British Army in the Battle of Waterloo and now makes parts for fighter jets and helicopters, is fighting off an unwanted £7.4bn from the turnaround specialists.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 21:50
The retailer, which is famous for its floral wallpaper and its pastel-coloured furniture, said sales dropped almost 8 per cent in the six months to December 31.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 19:24
The perception is often that higher rates are bad news but for many people rate rises - or the environment which causes them to go up - are a good thing.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 19:09
It may not seem like a grand romantic gesture, but making sure your spouse is financially comfortable in retirement, will go a long way towards securing your future happiness together.
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Thu, 02/15/2018 - 19:03
A new family buy-to-let mortgage has been launched by Mansfield BS that actively targets those who may want to rent a home to their children - or perhaps even their parents.
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