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Market Pulse
20 Feb
Unilever, consumer goods, Marmite
Kraft Heinz ditches Unilever takeover plans

Kraft Heinz has ditched its plans to take over Unilever, just two days after it emerged the London-listed consumer goods giant had rejected a $143bn offer.

19 Feb
empresaria office hiring employment services business
Sunday share tips: IMI, LXI, IHG

IMI shares were tipped as worth holding in the Sunday Times' Inside the City column. Costs have been cut at the valve-making group in the year of the recent oil price slump, with results on Friday watched keenly after its shares have risen from their 2016 low of 745p to above 1,200p of late.

19 Feb
sundays
Sunday newspaper round-up: Budget balancing, Unilever, RBS, BT, Sainsbury's

Philip Hammond is set to get a boost from a bigger budget surplus at the start of 2017, giving the chancellor more leeway to cut taxes or increase spending in next month’s budget. Hammond is under pressure to use his March budget to provide support to companies hit by sharp rises in business rates, as well as hand extra funding to the NHS, but after recent moves in government bond markets raised the Treasury’s borrowing costs he will be likely to think twice about any big giveaways, the Sunday Times said.