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Enquiries from house hunters have surged since Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the nine-month tax cut in his mini-Budget summer statement on Wednesday.

The private investor clients of investment platforms such as Hargreaves Lansdown have been snapping up bank shares, persuaded that they are set to recover from their current lows.

Capital Gearing’s largest fund holdings include a Vanguard fund which tracks the Japanese stock market, a FTSE 100 tracker fund, and German property fund Vonovia.

Boohoo has been rocked by claims that some of its clothes were being packaged in sweatshops where staff were paid as little as £3.50 an hour. Shares plunged 42 per cent in just three days.

More than 100 MPs from across political parties have urged Boris Johnson to review BA’s right to slots at airports such as Heathrow as it embarks on a huge restructuring that will axe 12,000 staff.

Amid the Brexit dramas in the Commons for much of the last year, the choice of Britain reverting World Trade Organisation rules was invoked almost daily. Covid-19 has moved the political caravan on.

The Restaurant Group – which has closed nearly 200 sites since the pandemic struck with the loss of 4,500 jobs – said it has started a ‘phased reopening’ of its remaining 400 venues.

Non-executive director Andrew Stone offloaded 180,551 shares in the AIM-listed firm, which offers products such as a business-only mobile service, for between 1435p and 1493p each.

Afritin is a tin miner with a working mine in Namibia, which it is developing further, and a project in South Africa. Listed on AIM, it was spun out of vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals in 2017.

Airlines were hit almost immediately through the mass cancellation of flights – but it took longer for it to become clear the impact it was having on plane makers.