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Blackstone hits high note with new Hipgnosis bid
Blackstone, the American private equity behemoth, is this weekend finalising a revised offer to buy the company which owns the music catalogues of Shakira and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Digital bank Monzo expands fundraising to £500m in deal with top tech investor
Monzo, the fintech which has become one of Britain's biggest consumer banking groups, is this weekend putting the finishing touches to an expanded fundraising involving one of the world's best-known technology investors.
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Hunt calls Dorneywood summit to boost flagging UK stock market
Jeremy Hunt is convening a summit aimed at enticing more companies to London's stock market amid an accelerating exodus of businesses being picked off by overseas and financial predators.
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Russia sanctions-busting? Big questions remain over UK car exports
The extraordinary, unprecedented and largely unexplained flows of millions of pounds of British luxury cars into states neighbouring Russia continued in February, according to new official data.
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Superdry landlord M&G eyes challenge to rescue plan
The owner of Superdry's flagship store in central London is weighing a challenge to a rescue plan that would impose steep haircuts on the struggling chain's landlords.
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NatWest becomes latest UK bank to report sharp drop in profits
NatWest Group has become the latest UK banking giant to report a sharp drop in earnings for the first three months of the year.
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There's a new trade war brewing - over global dominance in the electric car market
There's a trade war brewing between China and the West, at stake is who will dominate the global market for electric vehicles.
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Double glazing giant Everest crashes into administration
One of Britain's biggest double-glazing suppliers has crashed into administration, leaving insolvency practitioners engaged in a race to salvage hundreds of jobs.
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Post Office inquiry: Former complaints handler executive says she never 'knowingly' did anything wrong
A former top Post Office executive has told the Horizon scandal inquiry she never "knowingly" did anything wrong and did not remember a 2010 email saying that cash balances in sub-postmasters' branch accounts could be remotely accessed.
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Unions vow to fight rejection of plan to save Tata Steel jobs
Unions have warned of a bitter fight ahead after their plans to avert thousands of job losses at Tata Steel were rejected by the company.