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Spirent buys US-based octoScope for $55m
Technology company Spirent Communications said it had bought US peer octoScope for $55m in cash.
Essentra restarts dividend on upbeat outlook
Essentra restarted its dividend as the components and packaging company posted an upbeat outlook after a steep decline in annual profit.
PE firms set to take over Aggreko, LSE Group posts higher sales and profits
London open The FTSE 100 is being called to start the session down by 50 points at 6,600.
London pre-open: Stocks seen lower ahead of payrolls report
London stocks were set to fall at the open on Friday amid worries about inflation, as investors eyed the latest US non-farm payrolls report.
Aggreko agrees £2.3bn sale to private equity groups
Aggreko has agreed to be bought by two private equity firms in a cash deal valuing the FTSE 250 company at £2. 3bn.
Friday newspaper round-up: Greensill Capital, Marks & Spencer, freeports
Business leaders have criticised Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, for shutting down the Industrial Strategy Council, the government’s in-house thinktank plotting the regeneration of Britain’s hard-pressed regions. The decision to disband the council, which was led by the Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane, was called a “sad and bad” decision by Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
US close: Stocks fall as Powell warns of inflation
Wall Street's main market indices finished in negative territory on Thursday, after Fed chair Jerome Powell cautioned that inflation could rise as the American economy reopens.