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Market Report: Peppa Pig owner's shares fatten on movie deal talk - Lights, camera ... action' With Entertainment One, the co-owner of kids' favourite cartoon porcine Peppa Pig, on the search for acquisitions, The King's Speech-backer Alliance Films has long been rumoured to be in its sights. ...

Stephen Hester hails progress at RBS - Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester today hailed progress in "removing mistakes of the past" as the lender prepares to repay the last of the emergency loans taken during the financial crisis.

ECB policymakers face protesters - Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), risked the wrath of protesters in Spain yesterday with his backing for the austerity programme which has plunged the nation into a double-dip recession.

BG Group sells Brazilian gas arm for £1.1bn - BG Group, the exploration arm of the former British Gas, sold its majority stake in a Brazilian gas distribution business for $1.8bn (£1.1bn) as it unveiled a 21 per cent jump in first-quarter operating profits.

'Drugs cartels used HSBC to launder cash' - HSBC is facing potentially explosive allegations that South American drug cartels have used it to launder money, and that the bank systematically and deliberately failed to install the systems needed to catch illegal transactions.

Another fall for Thorntons sales - Thorntons' new chocolate eggs drove a "successful Easter trading period", but this could not offset another fall in underlying sales in the chain's own stores in its latest trading period.

Angry workers barrack BAE bosses over the closure of Hawk jet plant - BAE Systems hit a wall of opposition yesterday as 550 angry staff from Brough in East Yorkshire travelled to London to protest against the defence giant's decision to close their town's Hawk jet manufacturing plant.

Investors look to ground corporate jet deal with Petrofac CEO and founder - Shareholders in Petrofac have been urged to vote down its accounts after it emerged that the energy services company is paying $1.4m (£900,000) to hire a corporate jet from an offshore trust linked to the chief executive, Ayman Asfari|Ayman ...

Workers accuse BAE bosses over jobs axe - Workers facing redundancy at defence giant BAE Systems vented their anger at the company today, accusing the firm of not doing enough to save jobs and of "bailing out" of a factory which has been a manufacturing site for over 100 years.

Ikea accused of using East German political prisoners to manufacture furnit - The Swedish flat-pack giant Ikea is today reeling from potentially scandalous allegations that it used scores of political prisoners in former communist East Germany to manufacture its affordable furniture products in the years leading ...

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