The board of Spectris PLC (LSE:SXS) has backed an improved £4.1 billion cash offer from KKR, which trumped a £3.8 billion deal agreed last week with another US private equity firm, Advent ...

About Oliver Haill Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s, cutting his teeth as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor with a focusing on AIM companies ...

About Oliver Haill Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s, cutting his teeth as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor with a focusing on AIM companies ...

AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN) shares spiked higher on Tuesday afternoon on reports that the boss of the UK pharmaceutical giant wants to move the company to the US. CEO Pascal Soriot wants to the FTSE ...

Incanthera PLC (AQSE:INC) shares rose 7% on Monday after the company secured £508,000 to fast-track the launch of its skincare brand, Skin + CELL. The funding, raised via a share subscription at 3.5p ...

Kodal Minerals PLC (AIM:KOD) CEO Bernard Aylward talked with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's progress at the Bougouni Lithium Project, including a formal offtake agreement with Hainan ...

Deltic Energy PLC (AIM:DELT) shares rose more than a third in value on the news that it is to be acquired by Rockrose Energy in a cash deal. The 7.46p per share deal is pitched at a 36% premium to ...

Polar Capital Holdings PLC (AIM:POLR) shares rose 4.5% after the asset manager reported core profits ahead of estimates and maintained its dividend, while CEO Gavin Rochussen announced his retirement ...

Chemring Group (LSE:CHG) has struck a £20 million deal to buy a UK-based designer and manufacturer of software-defined radio (SDR) tracking systems for defence, government, and law enforcement ...

Babcock International PLC (LSE:BAB), the engineering group best known for maintaining the Royal Navy’s submarines, looks set for a longer runway of growth following last week’s NATO summit. Citi has ...

9.17am: Bubble warning The FTSE 100 has slipped into the red, and its the only one of the big European benchmarks not to be in green. Oil giants Shell and BP are both lower, which is hitting the ...

Donald Trump has said a buyer has been found for TikTok’s US operations, though he did not name the group, describing them only as “very wealthy people.” The sale would require approval from China and ...