U.K. & Ireland News
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British grandmothers may still be buying underwear and sweaters at Marks & Spencer Group Plc. Their daughters are spending their money elsewhere.
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U.K. stocks rose before euro-area leaders gathered at a summit in Brussels as they struggled to solve Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.
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A top lobbyist for France’s largest bank says European lawmakers will have only themselves to blame if pressure to bolster capital too quickly results in more Boeing Co. planes at the expense of European rival Airbus SAS.
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The developer of the One Hyde Park luxury-home complex in London’s Knightsbridge neighborhood sold a sports-car store leased by McLaren Automotive Ltd. for more than 11 million pounds ($18 million), two people with knowledge of the transaction said.