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Smiths News lines up special dividend after profit beat

Solid cash flow is helping fund both dividends and investments into new growth areas

Mastercard delivers yet more growth

The payments provider continues to profit from digital and AI-related demand

Sainsbury & Auto Trader: Stock market week ahead – 3-7 November

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week

Morgan Sindall and Coats: Big director share deals this week

Find out which directors are buying and selling shares in their own companies

Amazon cloud computing sales grow at pace

Capex commitments are having the desired effect

Apple dodges the worst of US tariffs

The company is also benefiting from Chinese consumer subsidies that have boosted iPhone sales

Unilever is back to beating expectations

All of the business units delivered sales growth ahead of the ice cream demerger

Shell rallies in third quarter

Anxieties linger over the direction of crude prices

Meta founder signals ‘aggressive’ capex push

Mark Zuckerberg wants to frontload build-out of computing power to capitalise on drive for ‘super intelligence’

Alphabet proves AI doubters wrong

Google is successfully integrating AI into its search product