Shares in doorstep lender Provident Financial plunged 43% after it issued its second profit warning in months. It says it now expects to make losses of £80m to £120m as its debt collection rates have dropped to 57% compared with a previous rate of 90 …
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Sport utility vehicles outside a Great Wall Motor Company factory in Baoding, China. The company said on Monday it wanted to buy the Jeep brand, but any such deal would face resistance in Washington.
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PARIS/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Total (TOTF.PA) is buying Maersk's oil and gas business in a $7.45 billion deal which the French major said would strengthen its operations in the North Sea and raise its output to 3 million barrels per day by 2019.
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Another squally trading session overnight to celebrate the first total solar eclipse to hit the continental US in 99 years. A definite downside dollar bias emerged overnight, although recent ranges were respected.
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Brendan Caldwell, President & CEO of Caldwell Investment Management joins Bloomberg TV Canada's Lily Jamali to discuss how to position in U.S.
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