Airline stocks were under pressure in London today after warnings of losses from budget carrier Ryanair.

Supermarket Tesco today agreed a £950m (€1.2bn) deal with Royal Bank of Scotland to take full control of the pair’s Tesco Personal Finance joint venture.

Royal Bank of Scotland is this week expected to raise £950m (€1.2bn) through the sale of its stake in Tesco Personal Finance to the supermarket giant.

Supermarket giant Tesco today announced plans to launch a new website to help people shop around for car insurance.

TESCO has started an interest rate price war with AIB and Bank of Ireland by offering fixed rate loans of between €2,500 to €30,000 at lower rates than those offered by the main banks.

CONSUMERS can save hundreds of euro by shopping around for personal loans, a survey revealed yesterday.

Grocery giant Tesco said it would offer 1,000 points to customers taking part in its Clubcard loyalty scheme when they took out life insurance with the company’s online application facility.

Tesco Ireland has announced that its personal finance business (Tesco Personal Finance) is to enter the loans market in Ireland, providing personal loans of up to €30,000.

Banking giant Royal Bank of Scotland today said it was buying Dublin-based mortgage lender First Active to merge with its Ulster Bank subsidiary.

Supermarket giant Tesco today said it had made an “outstanding” start to its financial year after interim profits surged 17% to £628m (€891m).

CELEBRITY weddings might have suffered a bit of a backlash over the summer but it hasn’t stopped young Irish couples wanting to marry in the style of Posh and Becks.

Tesco said it is working with mobile operator 02 in the UK to launch a Tesco-branded mobile phone service. The joint venture will be known as Tesco Mobile.

ROTTWEILERS are the most accident-prone dogs with nearly three out of five needing to visit the vet during a year, according to researchers.