The price of cocoa has slumped to its lowest level in a month down from four-decade highs earlier in the year after its sharp rise left traders dealing with losses and also prompted hedge funds to close out positions
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Gucci, once the darling of the Kering group, has struggled amid a downturn in the luxury market
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Jeff Fairburn, who was paid a controversial £75m share bonus at Persimmon in 2018, could find his equity in his Avant Homes venture with Elliott Advisors wiped out
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John Lewis has said it will publish job interview questions in advance to help candidates out. Should more firms follow suit?

Google owner Alphabet announced its first-ever dividend of 20 cents a share, despite spending billions to catch up with rivals on generative AI. Its shares jumped 15% to $182.43 in after-hours trading, valuing the company at $2 trillion
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Tesla reported its first fall in quarterly revenue since 2020 as sales were hit by slowing demand and competition but its share rose 11% in after-hours trading after it announced the launch of new models sooner rather than later
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Inheritance tax receipts rose to a record high of £7.5 billion in 2023 after the threshold at which it is payable was frozen by the chancellor
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Short sellers made billions of dollars from the $1.1 trillion fall last week in the value of the Magnificent Seven - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla
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High interest rates are creating problems for the £6.5 trillion private equity industry which is heavily reliant on debt, raising the risk of a crunch that could hit banks and spill over into the real economy, the Bank of England has warned
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Music rights group Hipgnosis Songs Fund is prepared to recommend a $1.5bn, $1.24-a-share takeover approach from Blackstone if it makes a firm offer. It could trigger a bidding war with Concord Chorus which has offered $1.16 a share
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Global overproduction of electric cars at a time of stalling consumer demand is likely to result in millions of zero-emission vehicles being left unsold over the next two years and hasten price wars, private industry research shows
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Is Rishi Sunak right to look at cracking down on GPs issuing “sick notes”, in his bid to get more workers back at their desks?

Is Rishi Sunak right to look at cracking down on GPs issuing “sick notes”, in his bid to get more workers back at their desks?

Electric car sales have fallen sharply in Germany, Europe’s largest EV market, and have declined in the rest of the EU as concerns grow about the take-up of zero-emission vehicles
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Akshata Murty, the wife of the prime minister, is due another multimillion-pound payment related to her holding in Infosys, the IT multinational co-founded by her billionaire father
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The government has launched a last-ditch effort to keep Alstom's Litchurch Lane train factory in Derby open in an effort to ensure it can assemble the rolling stock it has been contracted to deliver for HS2
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The Labour Party, which retains a large lead in the polls, is open to the prospect of a takeover of the owner of Royal Mail by the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky
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Plus500, a leading seller of contracts-for-difference, made about £25m betting against its own customers during the first three months of the year
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Superdry co-founder and chief executive Julian Dunkerton says delisting from the London Stock Exchange will allow him to focus on the business and cut costs
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Elon Musk is to cut 10 per cent of Tesla's workforce, more than 14,000 jobs, to reduce costs and improve productivity in the face of increased competition from rivals and slowing demand
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