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Shares rebounded slightly from yesterday's sell-off with the FTSE 100 index gaining 14 points or 0.2% to 7,625 in early trade led by domestic sectors including house-builders and financial stocks. Shares in ...

Following more record highs in US markets overnight, the FTSE 100 index gained 36 points or 0.5% to 7,646 in early trade led by Banks, Mining and Property stocks. However earnings reports were mixed with food producers ...

Shares in builders’ merchant and tool-hire firm Travis Perkins (TPK) had a bumpy ride last quarter thanks to negative sentiment in its sector caused by profit warnings from building supplies firm SIG (SHI) and a drop ...

Shares in Liontrust Asset Management (LIO) jumped over 9% to a new all-time high of £12.20 last week after it revealed that net fund inflows had almost doubled in the nine months to 31 December compared with the same ...

Shares in gambling firm William Hill (WMH) surged as much as 6% to 195p in early trade after it revealed that operating profits for last year would be ‘ahead of market and management expectations’. Thanks to ...

The UK’s fourth-largest supermarket chain can proudly trace its roots back to 1899 when William Morrison first set up his stall trading eggs and butter in Bradford Market. Today the business operates from almost 500 ...

After a wave of Christmas trading updates from major retailers earlier in the week, investors faced a mini-deluge of reports from mid-market retailers including B&M European Value Retail (BME), JD Sports ...

Shares in high street bellwether Marks & Spencer (MKS) fell sharply in early trade on Thursday after a bleak Christmas trading update. The announcement showed that revenues were held back by a number of ...

Shares in Sainsbury's (SBRY), Britain’s second-biggest supermarket chain by market share, drifted off 0.5% to 229.8p in line with the FTSE 100 on Wednesday morning after it delivered a mixed third quarter trading ...

Early indications are that Christmas trading for the supermarkets wasn’t disastrous but neither was it stellar. ‘I don’t think people will be popping champagne corks’ was one observer’s ...