Elon Musk secures £35.6bn funding for Twitter takeover attempt
Elon Musk has secured the financing for his takeover bid of Twitter, including £16.1bn of his own fortune, according to...
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KitKat-maker Nestle warns of further price hikes ahead to protect margins from rising costs
Nestle, the maker of KitKat chocolate bars and Nespresso coffee, has warned that rising costs will force it to raise...
Netflix shares plunge as streaming service loses 200,000 subscribers in first quarter
Streaming titan Netflix lost subscribers in the first three months of this year after years of explosive growth, sending the...
Password sharing could end as Netflix sees fall in subscribers
Netflix has hinted it could crack down on password sharing after losing 300,000 subscribers in the first three months of...
Energy bosses call for price cap to be scrapped and wealthier to pay more
Bosses of the UK's largest energy firms have called on the government to intervene with "unprecedented" measures to prevent a...
Half price rail sale on a million tickets to ease cost of living pressures – but no help for commuters
The price of more than a million train tickets will be cut by up to half in April and May...
Chelsea FC sale: Brewing heir Santo Domingo backs Broughton bid
A billionaire brewing heir is backing one of the trio of consortia which remain in the hunt to buy Chelsea...
Buyout firms weigh bids for £2bn finance group Together
The founder of one of Britain's biggest privately held consumer finance groups is in talks about the sale of a...
Chelsea FC sale: Ex-chancellor Osborne signs up to advise Boehly bid
George Osborne, the former chancellor, has been parachuted in to help the Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly clinch a...
Twitter adopts ‘poison pill’ strategy to defend against Elon Musk takeover bid
Twitter's board of directors unanimously adopted a "poison pill" defence in response to Elon Musk's proposal to buy the company...
Ricketts family-led consortium withdraws bid to buy Chelsea
The Ricketts family-led consortium has withdrawn its bid to buy Chelsea Football Club.The Chicago Cubs owners and their partners opted...
Elon Musk’s swoop on Twitter likely to succeed but its employees will be nervous
When Elon Musk declared on 4 April that he had become the biggest single shareholder in Twitter there was much...
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41bn as he says takeover needed to uphold free speech
Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $41.39bn, a regulatory filing showed.The Tesla CEO's offer price of $54.20...
Chelsea FC sale: US investor Clearlake to own 50% stake if Boehly wins auction
A Californian investment firm would become the largest shareholder in Chelsea FC if a consortium spearheaded by a part-owner of...
Jersey seizes $7bn in assets linked to Roman Abramovich
A court in Jersey has frozen $7bn (£5.4bn) in assets linked to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.The assets being targeted are...
‘Additional deficiencies’ found on P&O Dover ferry Pride of Kent
A second P&O ferry has been further detained by the authorities in as many days following a failed inspection, likely...
P&O hopes of Dover crossings from Good Friday in doubt as ferry detained
P&O Ferries' hopes of resuming cross-Channel services between Dover and Calais later this week appear to have suffered a big...
Inflation rises to 7% as cost of living crisis deepens
The annual rate of inflation shot up to a fresh 30-year high of 7% in March reflecting, for the first...
Real wages fall by 1% as pay fails to keep up with inflation
Wage growth in the UK struggled to keep up with increasing inflation between December 2021 and February 2022, according to...
‘They should pay’: Ukraine’s finance minister to demand reparations from Russia
Ukraine's finance minister has told Sky News that Russia should be made to pay post-war reparations to his country once...