So should investors go all in on a FTSE 250 tracker and skip the hard work of guessing the next target? That is tricky for ...

Apollo-backed Athora has struck a £5.7bn takeover for the UK's Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) in a deal that will create ...

Athora – the European insurance group backed by US private equity giant Apollo – has struck a £5.7bn takeover deal for the UK’s Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC). The acquisition will create a group ...

Industrial group Spectris has agreed to a takeover by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) worth more than £4bn after the private ...

One scoop to start: Private equity groups Advent International and Platinum Equity are vying to buy $2bn worth of assets, including the Kevlar bulletproof brand, from DuPont, as the chemicals giant ...

London's blue-chip stock index edged higher and the midcap index fell on Wednesday as investors assessed a mixed bag of corporate news, including a media report that AstraZeneca is moving its listing ...

KKR is swinging hard again. After a streak of misses in the UK, the U.S. private equity giant just put 4.1 billion ($5.6 ...

It came as research from broker Peel Hunt showed the UK is on course for the biggest year of takeovers since 2021, after ...

KKR & Co has agreed to buy Spectris Plc in a deal that values the UK maker of precision and testing equipment and software at ...

Global shares were largely unchanged on Wednesday after unexpectedly weak US labour market data and a rout in British markets ...

In the bond market, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield was up 5 basis points at 4.3%. Germany's 10-year yield was unchanged at 2.62%. The UK's 10-year yield was up 16 basis point at 4.62%.

British stocks fell on Wednesday, part of a wider selloff of UK assets, amid rising concerns over public finances after finance minister Rachel Reeves appeared in tears in parliament following a ...