UK shoppers seeking to avoid higher bills at the checkout are running out of options after prices on more than half of supermarket items rose in the past year.
With the number of significant platform transactions reviewed by agencies on the rise, economists and economic analysis are taking a greater role in the assessment of these mergers.
Bidders for Walgreens Boots Alliance's U.K. drugstore chain Boots are considering tapping private credit for the riskier bits of a debt financing worth around $5.3 billion.