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Jean-Sebastian Jacques

Rio Tinto to go ahead with pay hike for ousted boss despite shareholder anger

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Holidaymakers offered £20 Covid tests

New Aston Martin SUV

SUVs drive spike in Aston Martin car sales

Bank of England

Britain set for best growth since Second World War, says Bank of England

Paula Nickolds

Former John Lewis boss Paula Nickolds joins Sainsbury’s

A woman working from home

Full-time return to work unlikely for more than one million staff

Pub server

Furlough claims fell in March as economy prepared to reopen

Nintendo characters, including Mario, on the window of it store in Tokyo

Nintendo profits boom as people stuck at home play games

An HSBC UK bank branch

March was HSBC UK’s strongest month ever for mortgage completions

Pint of Stella

AB InBev boss Carlos Brito to step down from brewer after 15 years

Shop sign

Services firms boosted by pent-up demand as lockdown lifts

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Blinken says US-UK free trade deal will take ‘some time’ to agree

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Next hikes profit targets as high street reopenings spark sales bounce

Super Dry saw sales return to growth in the quarter to April

Superdry sees ‘light at end of the tunnel’ as sales growth returns

House building

Barratt delivers ‘modest’ upgrade amid booming housing market

A Virgin train

Trainline hails ‘first signs of recovery’ after pandemic-driven losses

A woman using a laptop

Online shoppers leave £100 of goods a month in ‘fantasy baskets’ – survey

Coronavirus – Tue Apr 6, 2021

Retail footfall almost a third below pre-pandemic levels despite reopenings