US casino operator MGM ends its £8bn bid for Ladbrokes owner Entain

US casino operator MGM ends its £8bn bid for Ladbrokes and Coral owner Entain By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:55 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 22:55 GMT, 19 January 2021 Shares in Ladbrokes and Coral owner Entain slid after its US suitor backed away from a bid. The betting giant had … Read more

Samsung’s profits SOAR to $8bn thanks to rise in working from home

Samsung’s profits have soared by more than 25 per cent in three months as working from home during the pandemic has driven demand for its technology. The South Korean tech giant said their operating profits have soared to $8.23billion (9 trillion won) as a result of their fourth quarter successes which they announced on Friday.  … Read more

Meet the billionaire behind the £8bn bid for Ladbrokes

Meet the billionaire behind the £8bn bid for Ladbrokes: He’s a close ally of Murdoch and married to fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg By Mark Shapland For The Daily Mail Published: 21:53 GMT, 6 January 2021 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 6 January 2021 Ladbrokes owner Entain may have this week turned down an £8billion bid … Read more

Ladbrokes shares soar on US casino giant MGM Resorts’ £8bn bid

Ladbrokes shares soar on £8bn bid: Swoop by US casino giant MGM Resorts is snubbed as investors bet on higher offer By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:52 GMT, 4 January 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 4 January 2021 Shares in Ladbrokes’s owner surged after it revealed it had received an £8.1billion takeover … Read more

Klarna climbs to top fintech ranking after being valued at £8bn

Swedish buy now, pay later firm Klarna climbs to top fintech ranking after being valued at £8bn By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:16 BST, 15 September 2020 | Updated: 22:53 BST, 15 September 2020 Swedish payments firm Klarna has become Europe’s highest-valued fintech firm Buy now, pay later firm Klarna has become Europe’s … Read more

Lockdown savers pile £8bn into Hargreaves Lansdown

Lockdown savers pile £8bn into Hargreaves Lansdown: Broker’s billionaire founders to receive £82m in dividends By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 7 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 7 August 2020 Hargreaves Lansdown was boosted by an influx of customers during lockdown, as thousands of Britons sat down to order their … Read more

Furloughing is costing British govenrment £8bn as six million staff are furloughed

A fifth of Britain’s workforce has gone on furlough – at a staggering cost of £8billion.  Downing Street yesterday revealed that the Government is now paying the wages of 6.3million workers under the scheme. Employers impacted by the coronavirus are entitled to claim taxpayer money to pay 80 per cent of each staff member’s wages … Read more