increase prices in the second half of the year to cope with rising inflation. the retailer has around 500 physical stores in the uk. let's have a look at the market. a strong finish to the session on wall street. the nasdaq ending up almost 2%. that momentum is not carried through to asian trade, to the hong kong index, as you can see, down 2.3%. as for currency markets, the pound holding on to the 1:30 to handle, just about against the u.s. dollar. -- trading close to $120, just shy of that 1:19. having hit that 1:27 at the start of the month, falling below 100 in the middle of the month, and then had a strong rally once again, in the last eight or nine trading days to take it back to 1:20 or so. time for the business pages of the newspapers. the financial times leads with the boss piano pharaohs lee --