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The former Carphone Warehouse boss bought 1.5m shares in four transactions between June 11 and 16, according to stock market filings released this week.

Shoptalk, a huge retail symposium held in Las Vegas, had been postponed from March to September – but has now been scrapped in 2020 and will instead run in March 2021.

Straits Mortgage and Trust was set up in 1909 to finance the Malaysian rubber industry. Now known as Scottish Mortgage, it is the world’s biggest trust and one of the most successful.

A long-term budget has been proposed by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, but failed to win approval from the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria and Sweden.

There has been ‘rampant fundraising activity’ on AIM this year, and the junior market has been well and truly open for business during lockdown, according to data compiled by City broker Allenby.

It predicts that total profits will decline to between $295million and $305million for the six months to June 30 while revenues will drop to $4.1billion.

Public sector debt was fractionally below two trillion pounds at the end of last month – equivalent to 100.9 per cent of GDP, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The cruise operator has been forced to pause its cruises following the outbreak of coronavirus, which initially ran rampant on some of its ships, including the Diamond Princess.

Doug Gurr (pictured) will replace Sir Michael Dixon, 64, later this year. He was chairman of the board of the Science Museum from 2010 to 2014 and president of Amazon China from 2014 to 2016.

A landlord’s revolt swept across Britain yesterday as pub owners including : Oakman Inns’ Dermot King vowed to open on July 4 whether the Government relaxes social-distancing rules or not.