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Five things we learned from Britons’ Christmas shopping
Online specialists took a hit, inflation is good and bad, and not everyone is skint – but they are nervous
Sarah Butler
13, Jan, 2023 @1:14 PM
Lidl, Zara’s owner, H&M and Next ‘paid Bangladesh suppliers less than production cost’
Survey of 1,000 factories for campaign group claims many cut rates in pandemic and have not increased them since
Sarah Butler
11, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM
First Abu Dhabi Bank considered offer for Standard Chartered; crypto bank Silvergate cutting jobs – as it happened
First Abu Dhabi Bank confirms that it had considered a possible offer for FTSE 100-listed Standard Chartered, but is no longer doing so
Graeme Wearden
05, Jan, 2023 @4:07 PM
Cold snap boosts Next’s pre-Christmas sales but chain warns of price rises
Retailer remains ‘cautious’ about 2023 despite better-than-expected data for last nine weeks of 2022
Sarah Butler
05, Jan, 2023 @10:48 AM
UK retailers see 50% rise in Boxing Day shoppers over last year’s figures
Better-than-expected numbers after 2021’s Covid-hit Christmas remain well below pre-pandemic levels
Sarah Butler
26, Dec, 2022 @4:30 PM
Next rescues Joules from administration, saving 100 shops and 1,450 jobs
Fashion retailer joins Joules founder in last-minute £41m deal, but 24 stores will close
Sarah Butler
01, Dec, 2022 @2:48 PM
Centrica’s buyback is a heavy hint to Sunak about windfall tax | Nils Pratley
British Gas owner has a 20% holding in the UK’s nuclear stations, which are as much of a cash cow as the North Sea
Nils Pratley
10, Nov, 2022 @6:56 PM
Wall Street surges and dollar tumbles as US inflation rate drops to 7.7% – as it happened
Dollar slides and stocks rally in New York on hopes that the Federal Reserve will slow its interest rate rises
Graeme Wearden
10, Nov, 2022 @4:20 PM
‘Not the Brexit I wanted’: Next boss calls for more foreign workers in UK
Leave backer Lord Wolfson says UK must let in much-needed overseas workers to plug chronic labour shortages
Kalyeena Makortoff
10, Nov, 2022 @9:39 AM
Made.com enters administration, with 320 more jobs to be lost
Customers anxiously await orders as Next buys online furniture brand, domain names and intellectual property
Joanna Partridge and Sarah Butler
09, Nov, 2022 @1:06 PM
‘I’d never seen anything like it’: how market turmoil sparked a pension fund selloff
Bank of England stepped in on Thursday to stabilise price of UK government bonds and avert a deeper crisis
Kalyeena Makortoff and Sarah Butler
29, Sep, 2022 @6:29 PM
What’s Next for Britain? Simon Wolfson’s prediction isn’t cheery | Nils Pratley
Share price fell 13% after CEO’s warning worst is to come, but scale of uncertainty makes precise projections impossible
Nils Pratley
29, Sep, 2022 @6:15 PM
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