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Business news live: Jaguar Land Rover to cut jobs, Marks & Spencer give staff extra discount
Marks & Spencer have taken another step towards fully overcoming their cyber attack earlier this year by reinstating their Sparks loyalty card, including giving staff members an additional discount for a short period as a thank you. A series of cyber attacks on retail stores included hits on adidas, Harrods and Co-op. The latter said this week customer details of 6.5m people had been stolen in the breach.
In the stock markets, the FTSE 100 is just under the 9000 points mark heading towards the end of the week, while bitcoin remains above $120,000. US stocks rose on Thursday with Microsoft edging closer to a $4tn market cap, following Nvidia which reached the milestone earlier this month.
Elsewhere, there continues to be reaction to Rachel Reeves latest growth plans, including getting more people investing and loosening red tape for businesses.
