FTSE CLOSE: Footsie rises with commodity stocks up on better China news
Fashion house Burberry saw its shares plunge as it revealed falling sales amid a slide in demand for luxury goods sparked by the economic slowdown in China.
Fashion house Burberry saw its shares plunge as it revealed falling sales amid a slide in demand for luxury goods sparked by the economic slowdown in China.
Comparison websites are once again under the spotlight from Ofgem as it launches a probe to determine whether some breached competition laws over paid search advertising.
It is good news for the fund, which last month found itself in hot water after Li Yifei, was allegedly taken into custody to assist with a police probe into the China's market turmoil.
New-style 'defined ambition' and 'collective benefits' schemes, and a plan to allow workers to take small pots with them when they change jobs, are on hold for now.
Young graduates based in Berlin have on average 64 per cent of their net pay left at the end of the month, but those in London have only just less than a fifth.
Sales of Jaguar and Land Rover models dropped one per cent in the last quarter, driven by a slowing Chinese economy and the Tianjin explosion in August, which destroyed 5,800 of its cars.
Southern Solar went into administration after 13 years in business. Its 100 employees follow into unemployment the 1,200 of Mark Group and Climate Energy, which both collapsed last week.
The new ring-fencing rules come into force in 2019 and are designed to protect taxpayers and banking customers by ensuring retail operations are insulated from more risky investment banks.
The spotlight is on the privatisation, but it could be worth thinking about other ways to gain exposure to Lloyds - or even rival big banks. We get the thought of fund managers.
Virgin Money said its gross mortgage lending rose 38 per cent to £5.5billion in the nine months to the end of September, while net mortgage lending almost doubled to £2.6billion from a year earlier.
The latest infantile craze for adults - after reading Harry Potter, buying £20 burgers in top restaurants and wearing trainers to work - is apparently for those that cannot handle modern life.
A claims firm has been fined more than half a million pounds after using high pressure tactics to coax hundreds of customers into using its services to retrieve 'mis-sold' PPI.
Property investment firm Meyer Bergman bought the sites, which are mostly in London and are among the 50 sites earmarked by Tesco earlier this year as surplus to requirements.
Unilever, which owns ice cream brands Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s as well as Dove soaps and Lipton tea, said underlying sales grew by 5.7 per cent in the three months to September.
Demand for luxury goods in the world's second largest economy has tailed off following the recent Shanghai stock market rout and this has directly affected the British fashion house.
A massive 90 per cent of VW drivers surveyed in a new study said they should be compensated if their cars are affected by the emissions cheating scandal.
Lloyds, which is 13 per cent taxpayer-owned, abandoned old-fashioned sales targets after mis-selling scandals cost them billions but bosses have now told staff to ramp up financial-product sales.
Britain’s biggest clothes retailer M&S is launching a new loyalty scheme aimed at encouraging customers to visit its stores more frequently.
The current crop of cheap buy-to-let fixes could see a landlord pay £230 a month but a homeowner pay £630. Yet landlords should be warned the relatively near future may not look like right now.
The number of estates being hit by inheritance tax is on the rise – largely driven by the rise in house prices over the past two decades. Here are our experts offer advice to help you save money
A day after Worldpay’s £6.3bn public offering, retirement home builder McCarthy & Stone and dividend processor Equiniti both announced float plans.
Walmart’s shares slid by 10 per cent after the world’s largest retailer said profits would fall 12 per cent next year because of increased spending on its online service and on staff wages.
Former managing director David Smith, former finance director Robert Peto and Thomas Wright, an assistant director at Better Capital are charged under the Trade Union and Labour Relations act.
Hayward will be best remembered by shareholders as the boss who went off yachting around the Isle of White while the company's value drained away following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
British Chairman Sharon Flood and French chief executive Alain Crevet are hoping to restore the historic French brand to its former glory.
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