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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services said the merger would bring little benefit to Booker’s investors and that it undermined the wholesaler’s value.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Swedish firm, the second biggest retailer in Europe, admitted it had ‘a tough start’ to the year as a high volume of stock left over from previous seasons forced it to offer heavy discounts.

Kia has unveiled the new hi-tech third generation of its popular European-built Ceed hatchback – with an important grammatical twist.

A surprise spike in US inflation rates yesterday sent markets tumbling, but Wall Street proved resilient with the Dow and S&P ending the day higher. Markets resilience will continue to be tested.

Customers with O2 will see their bills rise by 4 per cent from April, while Vodafone will use March's RPI figure for their April price rise, and Three's precise plans remain unclear.