British Gas customers' details posted online in third major data scandal in a week
The email addresses and account passwords for around 2,200 British Gas customers appeared online.
The email addresses and account passwords for around 2,200 British Gas customers appeared online.
The London market fell today, weighed by disappointing results from Barclays and Royal Dutch Shell. The FTSE 100 Index fell 42 points to 6395.8.
Barclaycard has axed its deals website following a financial performance review, with 112 jobs in the UK and US at risk.
The proportion of people in pensionable age is expected to rise from 12.4million last year, when they were 19 per cent of the population, to 16.5million by 2039.
I am renting out a property to tenants but I am worried about how well it is being looked after. How often can I check up on them?
From pint-sized pick-up trucks and two-seat mobility transporters to cars that become driveable tablets - the Tokyo Motor Show has some of the strangest concepts you'll ever see.
Aviva said total new business rose by 25 per cent to £823million for the nine months to the end of September, compared with £685million in the same period last year.
Smith & Nephew said its underlying revenues rose 4 per cent to $1.105billion (£724million) in the three months to September 26, but that was lower than the consensus forecast for $1.126billion.
As many as two thirds of tenants are seeing rent increases in some parts of the country. At the same time, properties in some areas can typically have just three viewings before they are let.
The Bank of England data showed £176.3billion was outstanding on credit cards and loans last month – £62.7billion of this on credit cards, £113.5billion on loans and other advances.
A record 106,000 new customers bought BT’s TV packages between July and September as higher-than-expected demand for BT Sport Europe boosted the figure, the group said today.
The blue chip oil giant revealed it had taken an $8.6billion (£5.65billion) hit to cover the cost of halting projects such as Alaskan drilling and the Carmon Creek oil sands project in Canada.
The bank saw its adjusted pretax profits for the three months to the end of September fall by 12.5 per cent to £1.4billion, from £1.59billion a year ago and below the market forecast of £1.65billion.
Renault's Kadjar is one of the latest crossovers to hit the market, and CAP Automotive says it will hold 42 per cent of its value after three years of ownership - better than rivals.
To the astonishment of absolutely no-one, Jes Staley has been confirmed as the new chief executive of Barclays. To even less amazement, he will receive an enormous pay packet.
If we want companies to look after our data, they have to know how seriously we take it. The stakes must be high: if you don’t respect our data we will vote with our feet.
The chief executive and finance director of the firm resigned last weekend amid allegations of financial irregularities and Globo now faces a probe by the FCA.
Petra’s shares had already lost a lot of their sparkle after Al Rajhi Group, an investment company based in Saudi Arabia, in late September dumped 26.1m shares.
Shares in the pharmaceuticals giant ticked up nearly 4 per cent, gaining 53p to 1420.5p, as financial analysts digested the figures.
Chu has successfully proven he can run the finance side as well as the creative side of fashion, joining a small peer group who have managed the same.
More than 300 jobs may be lost as the engineer steps up its efforts to cut costs. At one point the warning wiped more than £700m off the value of the Bournemouth-based company.
The state-backed lender revealed it had been forced to set aside another £500m to compensate customers who had been lured into buying payment protection insurance.
In a memo sent to the bank’s 134,000 staff, Staley promised to ‘complete the cultural transformation of the group’.
But that was down 1.8 per cent on the same period last year as demand was hit by ‘the slower than expected recovery in the global economy’ and pressure on disposable incomes.
Walgreens Boots Alliance, which is run by billionaire Stefano Pessina, has also bid £6.16bn to buy Rite Aid. Pessina wants to create the world’s largest pharmacy chain.
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