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Easyjet passenger numbers up, Homeserve appoints news CFO
London’s FTSE 100 was set to open unchanged at 7,188.
Easyjet traffic and load factor rise in January
Budget airline easyJet posted a rise in traffic and the load factor in January.
Monday newspaper round-up: Rolls-Royce, Booker, Deutsche Bank
Civil servants are carrying out an internal inquiry to establish whether the engineering giant Rolls-Royce fraudulently obtained financial support worth hundreds of millions of pounds from the government. The inquiry was launched after the multinational manufacturer admitted last month it had used multimillion-pound bribes to secure export orders across the world over four decades. – Guardian.
IP Group portfolio companies raise £5.4m
IP Group, the developer of intellectual property-based businesses, said its first two portfolio companies from US university partners had raised a combined £5. 4m ($6. 8m) in new post seed financing rounds via private placement of ordinary shares.
National Grid in £35m share buyback
National Grid on Monday said it was spending £35m to buy back up to 3. 5m shares.