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Star stock-picker Neil Woodford has warned it could be years before he again dared to sink cash into Tesco giant or its major rivals in a nightmare week for Britain's biggest supermarket. ...

Banknote printer De La Rue has blamed severe price-cutting in its markets, particularly by the Russian state rival, for a huge profit warning. ...

American sportswear giant Nike has emerged as the winner of the World Cup after it reported a sharp rise in profits, leaving rivals Adidas and Reebok knocked out. ...

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LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer may have said goodbye to Microsoft, the company he helped turn into a global tech giant, but he remains the brand's most loyal salesman. ...

The Bank of England will be compelled to tear up its “rosy” wage growth forecasts once again, according to two of the country’s most eminent labour market economists. ...

Bill Gross, the legendary manager and co-founder of PIMCO, has announced he is leaving the fund to join rival Janus Capital. ...

Seldom can a foreign leader’s first official visit to America have generated so much hype. Narendra Modi arrived in New York today for meetings aimed at rebooting the India-US relationship. His visit represents a remarkable transition for the Indian Prime Minister. ...

Deloitte investigators trying to get to the bottom of Tesco’s £250m profit shortfall have demanded full access to the email accounts of every single one of the company’s hundreds of buyers, The Independent has learned. ...

Approaching the 1960s five- storey concrete monolith of New Tesco House, you could be forgiven for forgetting that you are arriving at the third- largest retailer in the world. ...

Global Outlook A few months back this column explored some of the risks facing Western companies seeking to get back into corruption-prone Iran. ...

Global Outlook Where would our British law firms and barristers be without the endlessly deep pockets of Russian and central Asian businessmen, and those who serve them? Next month sees an Oxford-educated American hedge fund tycoon get his day in court against the family firm of the gazillionaire Assaubayev family from Kazakhstan. ...

It has not been a great week to be in equities. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index managed to claw back some gains in the final session, rising 9.68 points to 6,649.39, but it had still fallen 2.76 per cent, or 188.53 points, since last Friday’s close – the worst weekly drop since June 2013. ...

The Bank of England will be compelled to tear up its “rosy” wage-growth forecasts once again, according to two of the country’s most eminent labour market economists. ...

One word towered over everything this week. Tesco. ...

Watchdogs have given six city banks two months to accept a billion pound plus settlement of the long running foreign exchange trading scandal. ...

Bill Gross, the “bond king”, rattled the markets today when he abruptly quit Pimco, the investment giant he founded in California in 1971, amid “fundamental differences” with the board. ...

My story last week about a group of fed-up timeshare owners struck a chord with readers, and many of you have been in touch. ...

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