LATEST BUSINESS NEWS

Coronavirus

Rank slumps to loss and warns trading will not fully recover until mid-2022

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De La Rue shares jump after profits and jobs boost

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Lidl slumps to £25m loss after store expansion and hiring spree

An easyJet plane

EasyJet to operate no more than 10% of flights

Workers on the production line at Nissan’s factory in Sunderland

Huge fall in number of cars built in UK last year

Vehicles on the M4 motorway near Bristol

Average motor insurance price ‘at four-year low in 2020’

Apple iPhone 12

Apple posts big quarter after fast sales start for iPhone 12

Facebook

Facebook sees earnings soar but forecasts challenges ahead

Halifax sign

Current account switching levels increased towards end of 2020

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Poorest ‘locked out’ as one in six struggle to pay broadband bills – survey

Johnston Press finances

Chief executive of Scotsman and Yorkshire Post owner ousted after takeover

Energy supply

Two energy suppliers with 410,000 customers collapse

Banks Mining redundancies

Miners pull FTSE lower as traders spooked by Fresnillo

Heathrow Airport

Deal agreed to end BA cargo workers’ dispute

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Contactless card payment limit could be increased to £100

British Gas strike

MPs to quiz both sides in British Gas engineers’ dispute

The City of London

Housing developer L&Q warns of fraud bond

A John Lewis department store sign

John Lewis staff to learn fate as retail giant presses on with job cuts