In early corporate news, Drax taps a former Shell vice president as its new chief financial officer, and energy firms SSE and National Grid respond to a planned investment programme by UK energy ...

The rare procedural hold-up comes amid ongoing disquiet over the operation of post-Brexit trading arrangements between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK and concerns the region continues to ...

The latest reading marked the sixth consecutive month of expansion, hitting the highest level recorded since May 2022. David McNamara, AIB chief economist, said: "The rise in June was broad-based, ...

The following is a round-up of earnings for London-listed companies, issued on Monday and not separately reported by Alliance News: MS International PLC - defence equipment manufacturer - Hails ...

(Alliance News) - European stocks struggled on Monday despite fresh gains on Wall Street which saw the S&P 500 notch another all-time best level. The FTSE 100 index closed down 37.95 points, 0.4%, at ...

(Alliance News) - UK mortgage approvals were higher than expected in May, numbers from the Bank of England showed on Monday. Net mortgage approvals for house purchases rose by 3.9% to 63,032 in May ...

(Alliance News) - Serica Energy PLC on Monday said production will resume at the Triton asset in the North Sea, following maintenance work. The maintenance work is expected to "improve operational ...

(Alliance News) - International Workplace Group PLC on Monday began the second tranche of a USD100 million buyback scheme. Back in May, the Zug, Switzerland-based provider of hybrid workspace under ...

(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 opened in the red on Monday, after a data reading showed the UK economy grew as expected in the first quarter of the year and as US tariff cuts come into effect in ...

(Alliance News) - Tariff cuts for the UK automotive and aerospace sectors have come into force after Prime Minister Keir Starmer finalised parts of a deal for relief from US import taxes. Car ...

(Alliance News) - UK gross domestic product grew as expected during the first quarter of 2025, according to data from the Office for National Statistics on Monday. Real GDP is estimated to have ...

(Alliance News) - The UK government is to set out the concessions it has made to its welfare reforms in the hope that the climbdown on cuts will be enough to shore up support in a crunch vote.