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Tuesday update

DB Live: Fishing deal hopes; Oddbins rescue; Ted Baker; HALO

Tesco
10.30pm: US close US stocks closed higher on Tuesday as investors remained optimistic about the reopening of the US economy despite a wave of civil unrest spreading across the country.Read More

Monday update

DB Live: Fishers; Ted Baker; Business Stream; Loganair

Ted Baker girl
9.30pm: Hunter Boot saved Hunter, the Scottish-founded bootmaker popular with festival-goers, has secured a £16.5m rescue deal after seeing its sales savaged by the COVID-19 crisis. Full story here 5.45pm:Read More

Friday Update

DB Live: Virgin Media; tram; Nationwide; Deep Matter

Tram in Leith Walk
5.15pm: Chambers chief warning over new furlough scheme A business leader in Scotland says thousands of firms north of the border are at increased risk because the government’s route mapRead More

Thursday update

DB Live: easyJet jobs axe; Daily Mail slips; markets up

Easyjet
4.45pm: London close Encouraging indications of a return to work helped push the market to its highest since before the lockdown. The FTSE 100 closed 74.54 points (1.21%) higher atRead More

Wednesday Update

DB Live: Gilbert backs blockchain firm; British Land hit

Martin Gilbert
4.45pm: London close Investors continued to buy equities on the back of the return to work and hopes for economic recovery. The FTSE 100 closed 76.49 points (1.26%) higher atRead More

Tuesday update

DB Live: Stobart audit probe; Lawrie IP; Sunamp; Rautomead

Eddie Stobart
4.45pm: London close The FTSE 100 pulled back from its earlier three-digit rise but stayed in the black all day, fuelled by return to work measures, to close up 74.48Read More

Investors back board

Stelios defeated in battle with easyJet board

Edinburgh airport Easyjet
The company wants to buy 107 aircraft (pic: Terry Murden) UPDATED 3.30pm: EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou today lost his battle to unseat four directors and blamed three majors institutional shareholders “controlled byRead More

Friday Update

DB Live: easyJet vote; brewing merger; Carluccio’s; markets

Gen!us
6pm: Shearings collapses Coach company Shearings has collapsed with the loss of 2,500 jobs. Full story here 5.05pm: Quarantine confirmed and date announced Passengers arriving into the UK will haveRead More

AGM rebellion

Lloyds Bank CEO suffers investor wrath over pay

Antonio Horta-Osorio Youtube
Antonio Horta-Osorio faced a backlash from shareholders Rebellion against fat cat pay came back to haunt the banks today after more than a third of voting shareholders in Lloyds BankRead More

Hotels suffer from lockdown

Whitbread shares plunge on £1bn cash call to cover losses

Premier Inn
Hotels are taking a big hit from the lockdown Premier Inn owner Whitbread’s share price nose-dived after it announced a deeply discounted rights issue to raise £1bn to offset expectedRead More