Lloyds: Investec downgrades to sell with 84p target. RBS: Investec reiterates buy with a 395p target price and Berenberg sell with a 250p target. Babcock International: Deutsche Bank reiterates buy and 1,150p target. Marks&Spencer: Deutsche Bank reiterates buy. Coca Cola HBC: Nomura reiterates re
Read moreSupermarket sales volumes rose for fifth straight month as promotional spending increased to 34% of sales and price deflation scraped along at an all-time low, the latest Nielsen market share data showed. Sainsbury's suffered the smallest decline in year-on-year sales to stand out at the best perfor
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Read moreAn investigation has been launched into the supermarket sector by the UK competition regulator after a "super-complaint" from consumer organisation Which? due to the industry's "misleading and opaque pricing practices". The Competition and Markets Authority will begin a probe of the grocery sector's
Read moreBy Laurie Goering OXFORD, England, April 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - W hen environmentalist Ma Jun set out to tackle pollution from Chinese industries, it seemed a near-impossible task. Taking polluting factories to court was difficult. Factory owners were powerful, and the ince
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