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The company sold 1,770 cars in the first six months of 2020, when dealers were closed for months because of the coronavirus pandemic and potential buyers were keen to rein in spending.

More than 10m Britons, around a third of the workforce, will work from home after the pandemic, according to estimates from forecasters at the Centre for Economic and Business Research.

Lockdown made patients less likely to visit the doctor and get a jab for diseases such as shingles, hepatitis and meningitis, sending vaccine sales 29 per cent lower in the second quarter.

Finland’s Sampo and South Africa’s Rand Merchant Investment – Hastings’ biggest investor – are in talks to make a cash offer for the group.

Banks cannot divorce themselves from the daily toll of administrations, recapitalisations, insolvencies and credit card defaults. Loan losses in the first half of 2020 for Barclays were £3.7bn.

The American jet maker racked up a £1.9billion loss between April and June. And revenue fell by 25 per cent to £9billion, far lower than the £10.5billion that Wall Street analysts had been expecting.

The engine-maker will offer stock at a reduced price to existing investors in September, according to reports. A bumper fundraising has been rumoured for some time.

Metro Bank tonight celebrates 10 years of its first branch in London on 29 July with Heather Small of M People. But the bank with big branches appears to be facing big challenges in the years ahead.

Hundreds of thousands of customers of Barclays and Santander have taken payment holidays, as official figures found consumers had cleared billions of pounds of debt over the last few months.

‘No-one wants to save throughout their life to retire into a world devastated by climate change,’ says Mark Fawcett, chief investment officer of Nest.