Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Next, GSK, Aston Martin Lagonda, Haleon, CVS Group, Smith & Nephew and Computacenter. Read the Wednesday 1 May Business Live blog below.
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Amazon booms on AI bonanza: Tech titan rakes in sales of £1.25bn a day
MARKET REPORT: Hargreaves Lansdown cashes in on Isa season
UK pessimists ‘in retreat’ as business confidence returns
Duke of Westminster’s property company Grosvenor to pay £50m dividend
Oil firm Deltic Energy slams ‘hostile political environment’
Anglo American in crisis talks with shareholders over £31bn BHP bid
The FTSE 100 index opened at 8144.13