Irish exploration company United Oil and Gas has added to its burgeoning presence in Africa with a $16m (€14.3m) acquisition in Egypt.

Shares in Ted Baker have soared after reports that the brand’s founder is planning to take it off the stock market with a takeover.

It is hard to imagine a less sentimental forum than the London Stock Exchange.

Shares in drinks group C&C surged nearly 5% on it announcing its intention to delist from the Irish Stock Exchange in favour of a single listing in London.

The Central Bank has pressed UK investment funds selling into Ireland not to market products here or in the rest of the EU after Brexit, warning they could be breaking the law by doing so.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...

Exploration company United Oil and Gas is open to a secondary share listing in Dublin, although such a move is not in the company's immediate plans.

Providence Resources’ much-anticipated, multi-well drilling programme at its Barryroe field off the Cork coast has been delayed.

Aston Martin, maker of luxury sports cars for the James Bond movies, is moving ahead with a plan to list shares in London, naming Penny Hughes as chairman to end all-male board representation.

The Mandate Trade Union said there remains a level of concern among more than 200 staff at the House of Fraser store in Dundrum Town Centre — the sole outlet in the Republic — despite Sports Direct, the retailer controlled by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, snapping up the department store group’s UK stores from its administrators.

Irish-focused exploration company Predator Oil and Gas is set to raise £1.3m (€1.5m) by floating on the London Stock Exchange, ahead of developing various prospects it holds off the coasts of Ireland and Trinidad in the Caribbean.

Shares in Paddy Power-Betfair jumped by over 3% on the back of reports linking the Dublin-based betting and gaming services group with Australian online betting firm CrownBet, writes Geoff Percival.

SSE and the owner of Npower have reached an agreement to merge their operations to create a new energy supplier in the UK.

Tesco’s then UK managing director did not alert the British retailer’s chief executive to possible problems with its 2014-2015 half-year accounts, despite having opportunities to do so, a London court has heard.

Cabot Credit Management, the UK’s biggest debt collector has confirmed it will list on the London Stock Exchange, targeting a £1bn (€1.1bn) market capitalisation.

The chairman of BP has announced plans to step down from the oil major, sparking a hunt for his successor.

Sports Direct's under fire chairman Keith Hellawell has escaped a full-blown investor revolt after the majority of independent shareholders backed his re-election.

Aston Martin returned to profit, and nearly doubled revenue, in the second quarter. The British luxury car-maker was buoyed by cost cuts and robust demand for its new, DB11 sports car.

The UK’s accounting watchdog has fined audit firm PwC a record £5.1m (€5.6m) and given it a severe reprimand after it admitted misconduct when auditing collapsed accounting firm RSM Tenon.

Saudi Arabia aims to sell about 5% of state oil company Saudi Aramco in an IPO next year, and stock exchanges from the UK to Japan are vying for what may be the world’s richest IPO.

Newly-floated exploration company United Oil and Gas (UOG) will consider acquiring licences offshore Ireland in the medium-term, after building cash reserves and executing a near-term expansion plan in mainland Europe.

The UK’s Labour Party has held a series of meetings with top finance executives, setting out how it would levy taxes on one of the world’s biggest financial trading centres if it snatched power from Prime Minister Theresa May.

Last week, the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) launched its second IPO Ready programme which is effectively a boot camp for companies considering a listing on the stock market. 

Dublin-based exploration company United Oil and Gas (UOG) is to take a share listing on the London Stock Exchange via a reverse takeover of British company Senterra.

Irish residential building firm Cairn Homes is backing up its rallying cry for more equity-led builders to drive growth in the housing market by seeking a primary share listing on the Irish Stock Exchange.

Farmers have given a cautious welcome to Glanbia’s plan to sell 60% of its Irish dairy business to Glanbia Co-op, creating a new Glanbia Ireland joint venture in a deal worth €112m.

The UK should block any attempt by Germany to shift the headquarters of the London Stock Exchange to Frankfurt after it merges with rival Deutsche Boerse, an MP has said.

Tour operator TUI’s executive compensation has come under attack by a shareholder advisory group as UK investors target excessive pay packages.

The crisis engulfing Pearson deepened after the education company cut its profit forecast and predicted years of gloom in the US market, forcing it to slash its dividend and put its stake in the famous Penguin Random House book business up for sale to raise cash.

The owner of popular children's TV character Peppa Pig has rebuffed a takeover approach from British broadcasting giant ITV worth more than £1bn.

The London market was dragged into the red after a gloomy economic update from Britain’s construction industry dealt a punishing blow to housebuilders.

It has been quite a week. Students of the dark arts of politics have been left with plenty to savour.

Twenty-one Irish firms have been named among Europe’s top 1,000 high-growth SMEs in a prestigious ranking compiled by the London Stock Exchange.

Following acclaimed performances in Homeland and Wolf Hall, Damian Lewis is now tackling the world of finance, writes Gemma Dunn

London’s top-flight index sunk deeper into the red as it came under pressure from sliding commodity stocks and a slump from the supermarkets.

Paper and packaging group Smurfit Kappa is to switch its primary share listing from Dublin to London next month in a move aimed at expanding its investor base and gaining access to the FTSE index.

Deutsche Boerse and London Stock Exchange (LSE) agreed to combine in a $30 billion (€27bn) deal to create a European trading powerhouse better able to compete with US rivals encroaching on their turf.

The London Stock Exchange and German rival Deutsche Borse revealed plans to save more than €448m a year as they agreed a tie-up to create an exchange giant worth more than €26bn.

Cairn Homes is considering a range of funding options — including a further equity raise — in order to meet expansion opportunities.

The London Stock Exchange is in talks over a possible £20 billion merger with Germany's Deutsche Boerse to create one of the biggest exchange companies in the world.