While directors own just 2.36 per cent of the company, the deal is backed by hedge fund Arena Investors – which first ...

The picture in the rest of Asia was more mixed. Richemont was again the strongest performer, with Asia Pacific sales up by a ...

At the height of the dotcom boom, telecommunications groups tore up roads and fields to lay fibre-optic cable across continents, convinced that the internet age would need vast amounts of bandwidth.

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As hopes of a peace deal wax and wane, energy price pressures are back in focus. The latest UK CPI inflation figure came in at 2.6 per cent, undershooting both analyst expectations and Bank of England ...

Aviva’s (AV.) operating profit surged 24 per cent in the first half to a better than expected £1.3bn, as the FTSE 100 group’s general insurance business was boosted by the integration of Direct Line.

Prices for agricultural goods, like so much else, tend to be self-correcting, at least over the long run. Supply and demand ...

BP’s (BP) announcement last month that it plans to pull out of the North Sea after six decades in the basin provides another excuse, not that one is needed, to muse about the UK and Norway’s divergent ...

Secure Trust Bank (STB) is making headway after the sale of its lossmaking consumer vehicle finance business. The small-cap specialist lender boosted lending and profits in its first half as it pushed ...

Oil rallied, and stocks dipped amid uncertainty over a fresh US-Iran conflict after US President Donald Trump demanded Tehran ...

Tim, 32, is the recipient of such a gift, after inheriting £400,000 from his grandparents. “I’m fortunate to be able to have ...

European stock markets were broadly higher on Friday morning, but the FTSE 100 has fallen further back from its attempt to reach a record and is dropping toward the 10,700 level. The oil price is on ...