World markets
| Shanghai | 2,305.11 | +5.13 (0.22%) |
| S&P 500 | 1,666.29 | -1.18 (-0.07%) |
| Nikkei 225 | 15,381.02 | +20.21 (0.13%) |
| Hang Seng Index | 23,366.37 | -126.66 (-0.54%) |
| TSEC | 8,383.05 | +6.00 (0.07%) |
| EURO STOXX 50 | 2,818.95 | -5.55 (-0.20%) |
| CAC 40 | 4,015.95 | -6.90 (-0.17%) |
| S&P TSX | 12,613.05 | +105.45 (0.84%) |
| S&P/ASX 200 | 5,180.10 | -28.90 (-0.55%) |
| BSE Sensex | 20,252.86 | +28.88 (0.14%) |
| KOSPI | 1,981.09 | -1.34 (-0.07%) |
Nick Buckles quits as boss of G4S
Nick Buckles, who oversaw a staffing fiasco at last year's Olympics as well as a failed takeover of Danish cleaning business ISS during his eight-year tenure, will step down at the end of May.
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Top stories
Profits at Marks & Spencer have fallen for the second year in a row as its much maligned womenswear divison continued to disappoint.
Vodafone is to plough its �2.1bn dividend from US telecoms group Verizon back into its business rather than offer shareholders a windfall, after the UK-based mobile operator reported its biggest annual fall in service revenues in five years.
There is more to the new Flickr than just redesign. Every user will get one terrabyte of space. Flickr is a part of Yahoo! and the redesign comes on the heels of Yahoo!
Local Business Week (LBW) drew to a close on Sunday, leaving in its wake several interesting points to consider about the future of the British high street and its thousands of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers - and countless other small businesses.
Apple uses a "highly questionable" web of offshore entities to avoid paying billions in US income taxes, a Senate committee alleged on Monday.
Trends
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| OCDO | Ocado Group PLC | 0.32% | 1,654.10M |
| MRW | Wm. Morrison Supermarkets plc | -0.14% | 6,712.64M |
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| Capital Goods | +0.28% |
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| Conglomerates | +0.28% |
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| Cons. Cyclical | -0.41% |
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| Cons. Non-Cyclical | -0.16% |
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| Energy | +0.78% |
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| Financial | -0.60% |
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| Healthcare | -0.79% |
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| Services | -0.28% |
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| Technology | -0.09% |
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| Transportation | +0.53% |
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| Utilities | -0.18% |
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