LONDON | Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:01am BST. LONDON (Reuters) - Dixons (DXNS.L), Europe's No. 2 electricals retailer, beat guidance with a 15 percent rise in underlying year profit, with sales growth in Britain and northern Europe offsetting falls in the ...

LONDON, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BT announces today that Gavin Patterson will succeed Ian Livingston as chief executive of BT Group plc.

U.S. Treasury yields are sharply higher and the dollar is strong but global stocks and emerging-market assets are weak after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke set the stage Wednesday for a gradual tapering of the Fed's measures to stimulate the U.S.

In his Mansion House speech to the City's great and good, the Chancellor said the Government would urgently investigate the case for splitting up RBS and creating a so�called "bad bank" of risky assets.

Mr Paterson said that GM offers �wonderful opportunities� that could benefit human health and the environment. He said GM production in the UK would mean less spraying of pesticides and less intensive farming.