The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) and European stocks regained some of the week's earlier losses when markets opened on Friday, as traders assess the potential knock-on implications of the closure of the Strait of ...

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UK car market surges in February as EV uptake slows amid EU policy debate

The UK new car market showed significant growth in February, driven by a recovery in private sales, while electric vehicle uptake slowed compared with last year. At the same time, proposed European ...

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Middle East tensions drive market volatility

Insurance group Aviva has delivered its fifth consecutive year of profit growth, a hike in the dividend and has launched a buyback of its shares.

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Britain bears brunt of bond market sell-off triggered by war in the Middle East

The ten-year gilt yield - a key measure of the interest rate paid by the UK government to borrow - rose as high as 4.56% having been just 4.23% last week.

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UK regulator studies £8bn private dentistry market over price concerns

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has opened a study into the country’s £8bn private dentistry market over mounting concerns that the industry may be exploiting long NHS waiting times to push ...

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