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European stocks closed higher on Friday, extending recent gains, with investors cheering UK retail sales data and some encouraging corporate earnings updates. Optimism about interest rate cuts by several central banks sometime in the second half of the current year contributed as well to the positive mood in the region.

Baltimore-based T Rowe Price owns 5.32 per cent, according to the latest regulatory filing.

Investors' attention on Thursday will be on the latest economic growth data.

The business was one of several energy suppliers which regulator Ofgem allowed to recover costs that they had racked up during the crisis

By Christian Moess Laursen Centrica said it swung to a significantly higher pretax profit than market expectations, and raised its dividend payout. The U.K....

Profits at British Gas have surged tenfold after the industry watchdog relaxed restrictions on how much money energy companies could make from their bills.

The company allocated €3 million to its Energy Support Fund in 2023

Centrica reported pretax profit of 6.47 billion pounds for the year ended 31 December 2023 compared to a loss of 383 million pounds, last year. Profit per share was 69.

Stock prices in London opened higher on Thursday, following a tepid UK economic reading which could put the pressure on the Bank of England to consider cutting interest rates. The FTSE 100 index...

The company managed to recover losses of £500m it made during the height of the energy crisis.