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GVC Holdings, the Isle of Man-based owner of Foxy Bingo, is buying Ladbrokes in a deal that will see City firms split a £111m fees bonanza and hand executives up to £12m.

Profits at Tata Steel have risen five-fold over the latest quarter to £145million, boosted by volume growth in India and rising steel prices.

The drop in demand for rental properties triggered a profit slide at Britain’s biggest building society to £886m in the last nine months of 2017 – down 6 per cent on a year earlier.

If a business is a riskier investment than its peers, it may increase its payout to compensate investors. A warning sign is when the firm has a large pension black hole compared to the overall company size.

Homeowners, holidaymakers and drivers are being sold insurance policies that impose bigger fees than the value of claims, an investigation found.

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TSB has landed the latest blow in the battle for current account switchers offering existing customers £75 to recommend the Classic Plus account to friends and family – up to a maximum of £375.

Trinity Mirror will take over all Northern & Shell’s publishing assets, including celebrity magazines OK!, New! and Star.

H/2 Capital Partners has lent Four Seasons an extra £30m and refinanced an existing £40m loan at lower interest rates.

Her role at the £80bn pharmaceuticals giant makes her, at just 48, the most powerful businesswoman in Britain, if not the world.

Anne Stevens, who was named boss last month, will outline her so-called Project Boost as the engineering firm battles an unwelcome £7.4bn bid from takeover specialist Melrose.

The FTSE 100 index at the close was down 78.26 at 7092.43.

The move comes just days after experts called for fuel retailers to lower their prices after the price of oil fell dramatically in the last fortnight.

Investors got a shock this week, when the prolonged period without a stock market correction – dubbed the Big Calm – came to an abrupt end. We look at why and how to tackle a tumble.

Stark figures from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association show net investment in buy-to-let property fell from £25billion in 2015 to just £5billion in 2017.

Instead customers who have signed up to the loyalty will be sent vouchers and offers based on their shopping habits which it says will make it easier for customers to save money.

The FTSE 100 opened lower this morning after a slide in US and Asian markets. It opened down 0.4% down at 7,139. It followed a tough day on Wall Street.

While the blue-chips were shaken, with a fall of 3.8% over the trading week, shares in the UK’s growth sector were even harder hit with the AIM All Share off 4.5%

Shares in Hogg Robinson Group soared almost 50% today after the company received a recommended offer of almost £400m for the business from American Express Global Business Travel

Investors turned their backs on company shares funds last year and flocked to the perceived 'safety' of bond funds despite paying over the odds for relatively little income.