Next Shares Surge After Xmas Sales Growth

Next has reported it enjoyed strong sales growth in the run-up to Christmas and has now raised its annual profits guidance. The retailer confirmed it was to pay a fourth special dividend of the year while announcing a 2.9% increase in full price sales...

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House Prices Rise At Slowest Pace For A Year

UK house price growth eased to its weakest annual pace for 13 months in December, according to Nationwide. The building society's monthly index showed that property prices lifted by 7.2% annually this month to reach £188,559 on average, slowing...

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City Link Confirms Thousands Of Jobs Lost

The administrators of courier firm City Link have announced 2,356 job losses after a bid to buy the company failed. Many workers found out about the firm's collapse on Christmas Day and had been warned to expect "substantial redundancies". Announcing...

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Next Shares Surge After Xmas Sales Growth

Next has reported it enjoyed strong sales growth in the run-up to Christmas and has now raised its annual profits guidance. The retailer confirmed it was to pay a fourth special dividend of the year while announcing a 2.9% increase in full price sales...

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House Prices Rise At Slowest Pace For A Year

UK house price growth eased to its weakest annual pace for 13 months in December, according to Nationwide. The building society's monthly index showed that property prices lifted by 7.2% annually this month to reach £188,559 on average, slowing...

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Thatcher Was Warned 'Big Bang' Would Go Bad

Margaret Thatcher was warned about the dangers of deregulating the banks prior to the Big Bang of 1986, according to files released by the National Archives. Sir Robert Armstrong, the Cabinet secretary, expressed fears of "unscrupulous" money-making...

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Will Greece's Crisis Mean Tragedy For The Euro?

If, as now looks quite possible, far-left party Syriza wins next month's snap elections, plunging Greece back into chaos, there will be more than a smidgeon of irony about the whole affair. For one thing, the elections mark almost exactly five years...

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