The FTSE 100 ended a difficult week firmly in negative territory on Friday, dragged lower by surging oil prices and growing unease over artificial intelligence investment returns. The blue-chip index closed down
Prisma Health’s acquisition of Erlanger Health stands out as one of the most significant hospital consolidation deals completed during the summer of 2026. Sanford Health’s purchase of North Memorial Health also drew
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Micro-cap stocks have long sat in the shadows of their larger counterparts, attracting little attention from institutional investors or mainstream financial media. A veteran fund manager is now making the case that
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Reform UK leadership contender Robert Jenrick has pledged to raise the tax-free personal allowance from £12,570 to £15,000 if the party wins power at the next general election. Jenrick outlined the proposal
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Reform UK held its first-ever Business Day at its annual conference in Birmingham, hoping to convince industry chiefs the party is ready for government. Policy guru Dr James Orr described Reform’s economic
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Silicon Valley’s biggest technology companies are facing a new legal challenge over whether hiring sprees at AI startups amount to unlawful acquisitions under US antitrust law. The question is not whether a
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Chaka Patterson, founder and CEO of Chaka Strategy, has a blunt message for lawyers who think legal expertise alone will carry them to the top. Patterson, also the author of The Hot
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Ford Motor Company (F) shares moved higher as investors weighed a reported drop in August sales figures against continued strong performance from its flagship F-Series truck lineup. The F-Series has long been
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Iceland executive chairman Lord Richard Walker has declared his intention to open a supermarket on the Falkland Islands as a diplomatic dispute over the territory reignites. Walker announced the plan via LinkedIn,
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Major pharmaceutical companies including Roche, GSK, and Novartis are at the centre of a flurry of deal-making and drug pricing agreements reshaping the industry landscape. GSK moved first among the late movers
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Crystal Carey, General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, has released her clearest statement yet on which Biden-era rulings she intends to challenge or overturn. GC Memorandum 26-04, titled “Further Guidance
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