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Revenues at Linklaters, Britain’s second-biggest law firm, fell by nearly 10 per cent to £591 million in the six months to October 31, from £653 million in the same period last year. This is despite Linklaters winning big legal...
Of all the companies whose shares have fared badly in the past couple of years, National Grid is among the most perplexing. It has many of the qualities investors would be expected to cherish in times of trouble. Yet the Grid’s...
Mitchells & Butlers was in focus amid chatter the company has seen a huge increase in its pension deficit. At the company's interim results in May, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) said the last formal valuation on a trustee basis was...
Dan Sabbagh, Media Editor He gave us Angels, Britain’s most popular karaoke song, and roused us with Let Me Entertain You. Now he is inviting the City to give him up to £50 million to carry on with his recording career. Robbie...
Poker is all about keeping your cards close to your chest and giving away as little as possible,” David Leigh says. “By not revealing what you have in your hand, you force your opponents to make decisions based on incomplete...
Private equity giant Blackstone is gambling on an audacious eleventh hour intervention in the massive £2.5bn debt restructuring at beleaguered bookmaker-to-bingo group Gala Coral. Full house: Blackstone, the private-equity...
Pam Dean, 58, considers herself financially savvy and confident about handling her own fiscal affairs and those of her husband. During 37 years of marriage, Pam, who trained as a book-keeper, has taken responsibility for the...
The world’s major challenge in combating climate change is to devise a strategy that encourages growth in the developing world, but on a path that approaches safe global carbon-emission levels by mid-century. The way to achieve...
Building society attacks state-backed savings firms for distorting market By James Moore, Deputy Business editor The mini revival in house prices is set to come to a juddering halt, Britain's biggest building society has...
The pubs and brewing group Fuller, Smith & Turner cheered an 18 per cent rise in first-half profits but warned that the rest of its financial year would be "significantly tougher". The London Pride brewer yesterday posted...
