Aviva profits jump 20% boosted by premiums income
Profits at Aviva rose by a fifth last year, boosted by a jump in income from insurance premiums, as the FTSE 100 group prepares to complete its £3.6bn takeover of smaller rival Direct Line. The UK ...
UK to approve second runway at Gatwick airport if plans are tweaked
UK transport secretary Heidi Alexander has signalled she will approve a second runway at Gatwick within weeks if the airport makes two changes to its plans, as the government bets on the major ...
The obstacles preventing NHS England from slimming down
All change at the top of NHS England, and change too in how NHS England operates. Head, Amanda Pritchard, is leaving her post — and the major reason is that Wes Streeting, the health secretary, wants ...
Andrew Tate leaves Romania for Florida after travel restrictions lifted
Rightwing influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania on a private jet bound for the US, after prosecutors lifted restrictions banning them from leaving the country where they ...
TikTok seeks a deal and China brings a chip ‘shock’
The Chinese AI developer DeepSeek kick-started worldwide debates around open-source AI and spending on AI infrastructure. The company’s low-cost model has been quickly adopted across China’s public ...
Rolls-Royce shares surge as group says turnaround is 2 years ahead of schedule
The FTSE 100 company, whose engines power some of the world’s largest commercial aircraft, said it would achieve its “mid ...
St James’s Place swings to profit after strategy overhaul
St James’s Place has returned to profit on the back of strong customer inflows after a tough period in which the UK’s largest ...
Metro Bank swings back to profit in second half
Metro bank returned to profitability in the second half of the year as the bank pivoted away from retail banking and towards ...
French energy group warns on US investment over tariffs and tax uncertainty
French energy group Engie has warned it could switch investment from the US to other countries unless it receives clarity on ...
Steady easing will continue at the ECB
Our base case remains that the ECB will ease a total of four times this year, extending its divergence with the US. Having cut in January we expect a further cut to follow in March, despite some vocal ...
European stocks’ comeback
European stocks are outperforming their US counterparts this year, and the punditocracy is excited. Given the new US president’s economic hostility to the continent — evidenced most recently by his ...
Why the EU is reaching out to India in search of new friends
US President Donald Trump last night threatened to slap 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the EU, claiming the bloc “was formed to screw the United States.” Today, our trade and competition ...