Daily Mail Business Articles

No sex please, we’re cleaning! That was the message coming from Anglo-Dutch household goods company Reckitt Benckiser when it announced first half results this week.

They were a solace for office workers suddenly forced to work from their kitchen tables or spare bedrooms and valuable companions for those with limited chances of other social contact.

The combined gains were worth more than the entire value of the UK’s biggest listed firm, the £120billion consumer goods group Unilever.

Byron, which was founded in 2007, fell into administration in June and will hold on to just 550 of its 1,200 workers. Administrator KPMG said 31 of Byron’s 51 restaurants will close.

The EU competition regulator is conducting an in-depth investigation into the deal amid concerns it would leave the LSE with a massive market share in the trading of European government bonds.

What we need is a fairer environment in which smaller social media outlets or online retailers can compete before being crushed by the big guns.

Sterling jumped as high as $1.3169 having started the month at $1.24 – a rise of more than 6 per cent. That was the best performance against the greenback since May 2009.

With very little action to put on TV, many customers stopped using BT Sport to the same extent, the telecoms group said. A boost in demand for better broadband services helped cushion the impact.

Output among the 19 single currency nations tumbled 12.1 per cent in the second quarter, in a further sign of the devastation caused by the virus and subsequent lockdown.

‘The bounce back in prices reflects the unexpectedly rapid recovery in housing market activity since the easing of lockdown restrictions,’ said Nationwide.