U.K. & Ireland News
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Vodafone Group Plc’s Chief Financial Officer Andy Halford will step down in March following the completion of the company’s $130 billion sale of its stake in Verizon Wireless.
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U.K. stocks climbed for the first time in five days as investors looked for progress on ending a budget impasse in the U.S. and after a measure of China’s services industries rose to a six-month high.
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EasyJet Plc, Europe’s second-biggest discount carrier, said full-year profit increased at least 48 percent as the U.K. company attracted more corporate and leisure customers on routes where network carriers are withdrawing.
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Blackstone Group LP raised more than $4 billion in 2009 to buy European property assets anticipating that cash-strapped banks would be forced to sell as the region’s debt crisis worsened. Almost all of it sat idle for two years.
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