Market Pulse
Growth-by-acquisition pays off for Bunzl
A strategy of growth by acquisition was paying off for Bunzl on Monday, with the company reporting positive numbers in the 2015 calendar year.
London pre-open: Stocks seen lower on negative Asian cues
Stocks in London are expected to open lower on Monday, taking their cue from a downbeat session in Asia after the G20 meeting in Shanghai failed to result in coordinated action to bolster growth.
Monday newspaper round-up: retailers, Sports Direct, BT, Brexit
Britain’s retailers predict that almost 1m jobs in the sector - a third of today’s total - will disappear by 2025 as technology and the rising minimum wage reshape the industry. Retailers currently employ one in six British workers - about 3m people - and the sector accounts for a tenth of the economy. But the British Retail Consortium, the industry’s trade body, believes that higher wage costs coupled with improved productivity will result in “fewer but better jobs” in the near future.