Second largest cinema chain sides with rival in spat over movie release

Entertainment group scraps dividend as executives promise it will weather storm

Light-touch regulation continues to fail retail investors

African nation vows to block decision it rejects as unjustified and illegal

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Some leases prohibit doing business — plus what to do when coronavirus halts completion of a sale

Owner of some of UK’s biggest shopping malls still faces uphill struggle

Company must not bet the bank on expansion; estate agents have nowhere to go

The Conservatives vowed to bring in a new state aid system to protect British industry after Brexit, as the party finesses its message to Leave voters ahead of election day.

Stanhope co-founder and Worms family heir says Warren Buffett and 1848 inspired his new venture

Analysts fear government’s timid fiscal response will prolong the pain

US regulator cautions against using chloroquine outside of hospitals or clinical trials

The wide variety of Covid-19 symptoms seen by doctors is confounding the scientific community

British and American consumers are unlikely to ‘spend, spend, spend’ after the lockdowns

Rial to be changed to the toman after five decades of inflation

Governments should borrow more to stave off secular stagnation

Airline’s biggest shareholder calls for CFO’s exit over failure to scrap £4.5bn Airbus order 

Big-name investors such as Elliott and Caxton act on concerns over debasement of money

UK interdealer broker forecasts low single-digit revenue growth for the year

Dutch bank was forced to close out positions at substantial loss

Shares in brokerage firm drop overnight after it discloses payments to clearing houses

Charity Commission intervened over £350,000 of payments to Duke of York’s private secretary

Watchmakers press on with new releases, despite the coronavirus

Recently sanctioned London-listed company seeks to simplify ownership structure

Price of key steelmaking ingredient has held up, despite big drop in economic activity

Anglo-Australian mining group benefits from resilient iron ore price

The four years since his promotion to CEO have been beset by crises

Biggest US oil company takes $2.9bn charge to account for crude’s plunge

Coronavirus lockdown hits lenders’ ability to offer mortgages and evaluate properties

Tesla’s decision to buy liability cover from Elon Musk instead of a traditional insurer comes after premiums shot up

Government must prioritise getting the young back to work

Great value can be unearthed in some of the cheapest wines from impeccable producers

Provider cites coronavirus market turmoil for uncertainty over valuations

Essential retailer says coronavirus uncertainty means it will not give guidance for year ahead

Human rights are regressing worldwide and the UN’s ability to defend them is under attack

Latest proposal accused of being misleading over environmental risk

President’s pet project holds line on output growth despite oil crisis and mammoth losses

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German chemicals group blames Brexit and trade tensions for earnings fall

Like other accelerators, Techstars, a network of more than 40 corporate and geographically targeted startup bootcamps, has had to bring its marquee demo day events online. Over the last two weeks of April, industry-focused accelerators working with startups building businesses around mobility technologies (broadly) and the future of the home joined programs in Abu Dhabi, […]

Under lockdown, communities are finding new ways to voice their defiance, anger and support

Another on-demand transport app is making a move into payments to expand the existing relationship with its customers (and subsequent margins that it makes from serving them). Bird today announced the launch of Bird Pay, a service that will let people use its app to purchase items from local participating businesses alongside renting scooters. The service […]

Google is reportedly on the verge of stepping up their hardware game in a way that follows the example set by Apple, with custom-designed silicon powering future smartphones. Axios reports that Google is readying its own in-house processors for use in future Pixel devices, including both phones and eventually Chromebooks, too. Google’s efforts around its […]

Paige, the Sloan-Kettering spinout that has been building an artificial intelligence platform to improve cancer pathology and subsequently use those insights to develop better drug therapies, has raised an additional $5 million in funding to continue its work commercialising its platform and expanding its research reach, while also getting FDA clearance to launch in hospitals […]

It was only the other week that Andreesen Horowitz announced their second blockchain-focused fund of $515 million. In the announcement, they said: “We are still early in this Web 3 build-out. High-performance programmable blockchains will make decentralized network development much more accessible. After years of R&D, we are excited that a number of next-gen programmable […]

Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in the process of acquiring technology assets from same-day delivery service Deliv. The retailer is characterizing the deal as more of an R&D type of acquisition and not one that will have an immediate consumer-facing impact. Deal terms were not disclosed, but we understand the deal […]

Shares in the educational IT provider rose 4.2 per cent

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