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Building and support services group Carillion met forecasts with a 59 percent rise in first-half profit on Thursday, driven by high bidding activity in its main markets, and said it expects to make strong progress in 2008.
Diageo, the world's biggest alcoholic drinks group, posted a 7 percent rise in annual earnings on Thursday, but cut its profit growth target due to slower global economic growth.
House prices fell 1.9 percent in the month of August to post their biggest annual drop since monthly records began in 1991, the Nationwide building society said on Thursday.
Premier Foods, the maker of Hovis bread and Mr Kipling cakes, saw its debt rise and profits fall in the first half of the year, on higher raw material costs.
Mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester said it is cutting the rates on some of its home loans.
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey reported a sharp fall in first-half profits and said it was scrapping its interim dividend due to challenging market conditions in the UK, US and Spain.
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power lowered its full-year earnings guidance on Wednesday, saying trading had deteriorated in the three and a half months since its last trading update, reflecting a consumer downturn.
A television advert for the iPhone misled consumers, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
Global miner Rio Tinto Ltd reported a 55 percent rise in first-half earnings, boosted by its takeover of Alcan last year and record iron ore production feeding Chinese demand.
Housebuilder Bovis Homes reported a slump in first half profits on Tuesday following what it called "the toughest period of trading it has experienced in its life as a public company".