
Capita bosses were doing the Lambeth walk yesterday as they picked up a £60m, 10-year contract with the London borough to deliver a range of services....


The Footsie finished over 1% higher as an afternoon rally was helped by some better-than-expected US non-farm payrolls figures. According to the Burea...


Budget airline easyJet is flying higher after better-than-expected passenger figures for April. The airline carried 4.72m passengers in April, up 35.1...


On another jittery day for the top share index, the FTSE 100 is slightly lower having won back some earlier losses. Well received results have failed ...


An unusually large number of company updates for a Friday has been given the thumbs up overall, but traders remain cautious following the slide over t...


Hotels group Millennium & Copthorne posted higher revenues and profits in the three months to 31 March, but warned that the recovery this year will be...


Two of Millennium and Copthorne's hotels in the Canterbury region of New Zealand are yet to return to full service following the earthquake on 22 Febr...


The earthquake in New Zealand could cost insurers $12bn (£7.5bn), the US bank JP Morgan has estimated. Analyst Michael Huttner, who notes that last y...