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London close: FTSE sinks to five-month low as final act of Greek drama unfolds

Heavy falls in the travel, tourism and financial sectors prompted a 2% plunge on the FTSE 100 on Monday as investor sentiment was hammered by concerns about the future of Greece and the wider Eurozone. The FTSE 100 finished 133.22 points lower (-1.97%) at 6,620.48 by the end of the session, its lowe

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UPDATE 1-Lufthansa eyes Eurowings as platform for consolidation

(Recasts with Eurowings comments) FRANKFURT, June 29 (Reuters) - Lufthansa said it wants to use its expanded low-cost brand Eurowings as a platform for European consolidation, and it could potentially take in other Lufthansa units or part-owned stakes such as Brussels Airlines and Air Dolim

FTSE 100 movers: Financials and travel stocks plunge, gold miners higher

UK markets plummeted on Monday, as Greece closed its banks and called a public vote to determine its future within the Eurozone. With just seven stocks on the FTSE 100 in positive territory, the UK index was down 1.5% at 6,655 as of 14:30 BST. Travel tour operator TUI dropped sharply as investors e

London midday: Stocks slide as Greece shuts banks, calls referendum

UK stocks slid sharply on Monday after Greece shut its banks and called a public vote to decide the fate of its future within the Eurozone. With just three stocks on the FTSE 100 in positive territory, the UK index was down 1.63% at 6,643.30 by midday. The index had dropped to a low of 6,598.64 earl

BUZZ-Travel stocks: TUI leads losses on worst day for sector this year on Tunisia, Greece

** Travel stocks taking a bruising, led by a >10% drop in volume from German tour operator TUI following hotel attack in Tunisia & as Greece edges closer to a default ** Stoxx 600 Travel & Leisure index down 3.1%, biggest one-day drop since early December; fellow tour operator Thomas Cook

Business bosses to PM Cameron: "Don't lock us out of the EU"

LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - Business chiefs from companies including BT, easyJet and a local cider maker called on Prime Minister David Cameron to keep Britain in the European Union as he prepared to ask EU leaders for a new deal. Cameron, who won an unexpectedly decisive victory in a natio

Ryanair Tops International Traffic League Tables

EasyJet to slash flights at beleaguered Rome airport

By Costas Pitas LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - British airline easyJet will cut the number of flights it operates from Italy's busiest airport, Rome Fiumicino, the latest blow for a hub hit by a blaze last month. The low-cost carrier said on Thursday it would roughly halve the number of

easyJet strengthens its Italian strategy

easyJet said on Thursday that it is strengthening its Italian strategy by expanding its bases at Milan Malpensa and Naples and opening a new base in Venice. Milan Malpensa is already easyJet's second largest base with 18 aircraft and will receive three more from April 2016, providing over 100 new jo

Thursday newspaper round-up: Federal Reserve, Airline strikes, AT&T

The Federal Reserve is still expected to raise interest rates this year but lowered its GDP growth forecast for this year to 1.8% from 2% initially, The Telegraph writes. IAG, Easyjet, Ryanair, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa have united to demand action from the EU to avert summer travel chaos caused

UPDATE 1-Airlines join forces to push EU to help lower their costs

(Adds airport industry reaction) By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS, June 17 (Reuters) - Europe's five largest airlines set aside their differences on Wednesday to urge the European Union to do more to lower airport costs and taxes. The airlines urged the European Commission - the EU ex

Airlines join forces to push EU to help lower their costs

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS, June 17 (Reuters) - Europe's five largest airlines set aside their differences on Wednesday to urge the European Union to do more to lower airport costs and taxes. The airlines urged the European Commission -- the EU executive -- to lower security charges,

Five European airline executives call for lower taxes, airport costs

Germany reports first death from MERS virus

BERLIN, June 16 (Reuters) - A 65-year-old German man who was infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus earlier this year has died in hospital, the health ministry of the German state of Lower Saxony said on Tuesday. The man died in the town of Ostercappeln, north-west