Jet2 owner predicts soaring profits
THE owner of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays is flying high after growing demand for flights and package holidays put it on course for bumper annual profits. Shares in Dart Group hit a 9991⁄2p high, up 2591⁄2p, as it predicted pre-tax profit in the year to next March would be substantially ahead of expectations. Daily Express :: Finance Feed More...
£800m fall at broker TP Icap
ABOUT £800million was wiped from the value of bonds and derivatives broker TP Icap, the world’s largest interdealer broker, as it ousted its chief executive and warned that rising costs would hit profits. Daily More...
Sorrell fights WPP for his £20m bonus
ADVERTISING guru Sir Martin Sorrell is prepared to fight WPP, the industry giant he left earlier this year, for the £20 million in bonuses it has threatened to withhold from him. Daily Express :: Finance Feed More...
Bitcoin price LIVE: BTC to ‘rise’ as 90% of other cryptocurrencies ‘fail or DIE’ – expert
BITCOIN couldn’t maintain yesterday’s momentum overnight, but wallet holders will be encouraged by BTC hitting a high of $ 6,710, and broadly heading north, not south. Bitcoin has now been forecast More...
Theresa May’s ‘disgraceful’ Government told to SAVE the great British high street
HIGH STREETS across the UK are on the brink of becoming lines of empty shops with punitive business rates pushing some of Britain’s best-loved retailers to extinction. Daily Express :: Finance Feed More...
More risks behind new mortgages
MORTGAGE lenders and borrowers are being forced to take greater risks as property transactions slump because buyers cannot afford sky-high prices. Banks and building societies are lending at higher loan-to-values More...
EU must ‘prepare for worst-case scenario’ or risk return to ‘1930s’ as trade war LOOMS
EUROPEAN Union officials fear the bloc’s relationship with the United States under President Donald Trump has deteriorated to the point where the US has “no friends only enemies” amid the threat of a More...
Countrywide’s debt cut move
COUNTRYWIDE lost nearly a third of its market value yesterday as it sounded the fourth profit warning in eight months and announced plans for an emergency fundraising to reduce debt. Daily Express :: Finance Feed More...
House of Fraser axes stores and 6,000 staff
CREDITORS yesterday backed plans to close more than half of House of Fraser’s department stores with the loss of up to 6,000 jobs. Daily Express :: Finance Feed More...
Disney ups Fox offer to £54bn
A BLOCKBUSTER of a bidding war for 21st Century Fox intensified yesterday as Walt Disney offered $ 71.3billion for the bulk of Rupert Murdoch’s prized entertainment assets. Daily Express :: Finance Feed More...