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The leading contender to buy Everton Football Club is preparing to launch within days a plan to take his sports and technology holding company public at a valuation of over $2bn. Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky

Unilever, the FTSE-100 consumer goods behemoth behind Marmite and Lynx, is trying to slim its portfolio of personal care brands by putting two of them up for sale. Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky

A British fraud detection company backed by Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneur who died this week, is in talks about a sale to Visa, the American payments giant, worth hundreds of millions of pounds. Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky

Some of London's leading universities are plotting to create a £500m fund to back start-ups created by their academics, even as the wider higher education sector confronts a growing financial crisis. Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky

It is "laughable" for Rachel Reeves to claim she didn't know the full state of the public finances until she took office, Ruth Davidson has said. Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky

Starbucks has offered its new chief executive the use of a corporate jet for his 1,000-mile commute. Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky

Vessels like Mike Lynch's stricken superyacht are "unsinkable", according to the chief executive of the firm which makes and sells them. Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky

You remember that "dire economic inheritance" the new government keeps talking about? Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky

Official data shows government borrowing in July was above expectations and at its highest since the pandemic. Read MoreBusiness News - Markets reports and financial news from Sky