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Computacenter full year profit up, boosted by disposal
Computacenter posted a rise in full year pre-tax profit as a slip in revenue was offset by a gain from the disposal of its RD Trading recycling subsidiary.
Revenue up, profits down as Wetherspoon chairman backs Brexit
FTSE 250 pubco J D Wetherspoon saw more cash across its bars in the first half of its financial year, with revenue up 6. 2% to £790. 3m from £744. 4m, and like-for-like sales up 2. 9%.
London pre-open: Stocks expected to bounce back
London stocks are set to push higher at the open on Friday, bouncing back from the previous session’s Draghi-fuelled losses following positive trading in Asia.
Friday newspaper round-up: LLoyds Bank, NZ zero hour contracts, Libor traders
The US has been handed a proposal that would end the last vestiges of its control over the internet, touching off a potentially contentious political debate in Washington over the future of cyber space. The proposal was put forward on Thursday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the international body that oversees the internet’s addressing system. It would lead to the US handing over its role as the ultimate authority for internet naming, in return for an overhaul of Icann’s governance arrangements intended to protect it from government meddling in future.