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The Pearson website seen on a phone screen

Pearson starts 2024 with growth as firm ‘pleased’ with AI progress

NatWest branch

NatWest says it retreated from race towards cheaper mortgage deals last year

Models of people on coins

Current account and credit card and complaints increased in last half of 2023

Nescafe

Nestle sales slow after Nescafe maker raises prices around the world

LSEG boss

London Stock Exchange Group shareholders back plans that could double boss’s pay

City workers walking along London Bridge.

FTSE reaches another record level on strong earnings and Anglo American bid

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Labour vows to be the most ‘pro-business government’ UK has ever seen

Sainsbury's superstore

Sainsbury’s forecasts ‘strong’ profit growth as it wins customers from rivals

London skyline

Loungers sees record revenue and says inflation has eased

NatWest sign

NatWest earnings retreat from 2023 highs after mortgage rates dip

Anglo American site

Anglo American rebuffs BHP’s £31bn takeover hopes

Broadcaster Chris Packham and members of the Axe Drax campaign group protesting outside the Drax AGM

Climate protesters target BP and Drax shareholder meetings

Sir Keir Starmer

Labour would seek to end rail industry ‘boom and bust’, Sir Keir Starmer says

CITY AstraZeneca

Cancer drugs help drive AstraZeneca sales sharply higher

A general view of Persimmon Homes

Persimmon sees sales and prices pick up in ‘good start’ to 2024

The Sainsbury’s website pictured on a laptop

Sainsbury’s online deliveries hit by another ‘technical issue’

Passengers on a near-empty concourse at Waterloo train station

Labour pledges to renationalise railways ‘well within first term’ if elected

WHSmith financials

WH Smith says shift to ‘one-stop shop’ travel destination paying off