Rio Tinto to pay largest dividend in its 148-year history: Investors set for a record £6.5bn windfall amid global mining boom By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:05 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:05 GMT, 17 February 2021 RioTinto will hand investors the largest dividend in its 148-year history as it cashes … Read more
Treasury campus in ‘overlooked’ Teesside is a ‘golden opportunity’ to level up the North, say business leaders By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 More than 100 business leaders have called for the Treasury’s new northern campus in ‘overlooked’ Teesside. In a … Read more
MARKET REPORT: Construction firm Costain soars after striking a deal with the Welsh government over Breacon Beacons road By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 Relieved investors sent construction contractor Costain higher after it drew a line under a problematic project. The … Read more
Gucci suffered a Christmas sales slump as super-rich tourists were forced to stay home By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:05 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:30 GMT, 17 February 2021 Gucci sales fell over Christmas as the collapse in super-rich tourists heading to London, Paris, Milan and New York hit business … Read more
Woodford under fire over new role: Disgraced money man is now advising the US fund that bought his assets at knockdown prices By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:22 GMT, 17 February 2021 Neil Woodford faces calls to open up about his new role with a … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s £400bn balancing act: With the Budget fast approaching, here’s how the Chancellor can raise revenues without wrecking the Covid recovery By Douglas Mcwilliams Founder Of The Centre For Economic And Business Research Published: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 The last new tax proposed by an economist … Read more
It’s fair to say that the shipbuilding town of Greenock in west Scotland is not renowned for being a fertile stomping ground for the world’s wealthiest elite. Monaco it is not. Yet, Greenock is the place where school dropouts turned business powerhouses Sandy and James Easdale were raised, and they’ve got quite a tale to … Read more
Hargreaves Lansdown shares slide after co-founder Peter Hargreaves offloads another £300m of his stake in the firm The share sale takes Hargreaves’s total ownership in the firm to less than 20% Co-founder Stephen Lansdown has also downsized his stake in Hargreaves Twelve months ago, Peter Hargreaves sold shares worth about £550m By Harry Wise For … Read more
It’s fair to say that the shipbuilding town of Greenock in west Scotland is not renowned for being a fertile stomping ground for the world’s wealthiest elite. Monaco it is not. Yet, Greenock is the place where school dropouts turned business powerhouses Sandy and James Easdale were raised, and they’ve got quite a tale to … Read more
British American Tobacco adds three million more vaping and oral product users as sales of tobacco continue to plunge BAT’s revenues dipped 0.4% to £25.78bn, partly due to falling tobacco demand The group is aiming to achieve £5billion in sales from new categories by 2025 Travel curbs and South Africa’s temporary ban on tobacco sales hit … Read more