• Tuesday newspaper round-up: UK business confidence, Nvidia, Vistry

  Tuesday 15 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - UK business confidence has fallen to the lowest level for more than two years amid growing concern over tax rises and Donald Trump's escalating trade war, according to a survey. Highlighting the risks to the economy, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) said the first quarter of the year had been "harrowing" for companies across Britain. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: UK business confidence, Nvidia, Vistry

  Tuesday 15 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - UK business confidence has fallen to the lowest level for more than two years amid growing concern over tax rises and Donald Trump's escalating trade war, according to a survey. Highlighting the risks to the economy, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) said the first quarter of the year had been "harrowing" for companies across Britain. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: British Steel, Viagogo, tariffs

  Monday 14 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - British Steel is to deploy emergency measures in a race against time to save the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, as the business secretary refused to guarantee the plant could get what it needed in time. The company is understood to be looking at offers of help from more than a dozen businesses to obtain materials such as iron ore and coking coal, potentially allowing it to avoid the temporary shutdown of one of the two furnaces. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: British Steel, BP, BoE

  Sunday 13 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The government has passed a bill that allows it to force companies to keep operations going at loss-making steel businesses in England. That or their executives will face criminal penalties. The bill was approved in what was just the sixth Saturday sitting of parliament since the second world war. The move was made necessary by the apparent breakdown of talks with British Steel's Chinese owners, which threatened to provoke the works' furnaces going out and the loss of thousands of jobs. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Prada/Versace, WeightWatchers, sewage plant

  Friday 11 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The EU will not rip up its tech rules in an attempt to reach a trade deal with Donald Trump, the bloc's most senior official on digital policy has said. Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission vice-president responsible for tech sovereignty, indicated the EU was not going to compromise on its digital rulebook to reach an agreement on trade with the US - a key demand of Trump administration officials. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Royal Mail, Nato, Netflix tax

  Thursday 10 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Royal Mail has unveiled a solar-powered "postbox of the future" with a built-in barcode reader and a hatch to accept parcels larger than letterbox size. In the "biggest change to postbox design since their introduction more than 175 years ago", the hi-tech pillar box looks as if it is wearing a jaunty beret. The black, chequered lid is in fact solar panels that power the scanner. The postbox's extra-large opening hatch offers a new way for the postal service to cash in on a roaring parcel trade. While letter volumes are in steep decline, Britain is in the grip of a secondhand selling boom as consumers use sites such as Vinted to make extra cash. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Royal Mail, Nato, Netflix tax

  Thursday 10 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Royal Mail has unveiled a solar-powered "postbox of the future" with a built-in barcode reader and a hatch to accept parcels larger than letterbox size. In the "biggest change to postbox design since their introduction more than 175 years ago", the hi-tech pillar box looks as if it is wearing a jaunty beret. The black, chequered lid is in fact solar panels that power the scanner. The postbox's extra-large opening hatch offers a new way for the postal service to cash in on a roaring parcel trade. While letter volumes are in steep decline, Britain is in the grip of a secondhand selling boom as consumers use sites such as Vinted to make extra cash. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Clean power, Apple. productivity

  Tuesday 08 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40% of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show. A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years. The report found that solar farms had been the world's fastest-growing source of energy for the last 20 consecutive years. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Companies House, supermarkets, UK economy

  Monday 07 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The UK government agency responsible for overseeing a national register of companies has collected just £1,250 in fines after being given new powers to crack down on corruption, it has emerged. Companies House is implementing a series of reforms, amid embarrassing revelations about fraudsters and jokers signing up to the corporate register with names such as "Darth Vader" and "Santa Claus". - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Co-op Group, London pubs, Luton airport

  Friday 04 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Cross-Channel train services serving new destinations will be cheaper to run under a scheme to grow international rail travel from the UK. London St Pancras Highspeed (LSPH), which owns and operates the railway and stations from the capital to the Channel tunnel, said it would slash charges for operators planning new routes. Eurostar is the sole existing operator between the UK and Europe, with regular direct trains reaching only Paris and Brussels, as engineering work affects the Amsterdam route until May. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Tax increases, Jes Staley, Barclay family

  Thursday 03 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has defended the £40bn in tax increases in autumn's budget as businesses brace for their impact, saying NHS waiting lists would now be higher if she had not taken action. Employers are set for a £25bn increase in national insurance contributions (NICs), which comes into force on 6 April, at the same time as consumers are being hit by a slew of increases in bills for everything from utilities to car tax. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Motor finance compensation, car manufacturers, Rebel Energy

  Wednesday 02 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - A court of appeal ruling that has left lenders fearing PPI-level compensation bills over the motor finance commission scandal "goes too far", the City regulator said on Tuesday. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) made the comments in a written submission to the supreme court on Tuesday, as part of a high-profile case being closely watched by the government. The Treasury, which tried but failed to intervene in the case, is concerned the standing decision could spook businesses and threaten investment in the UK. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Household bills, OpenAI, BBC

  Tuesday 01 Apr 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Millions of households are bracing themselves for a raft of price increases across a range of bills - from energy and water to car tax and the TV licence - that take effect on Tuesday. With so many costs rising at once - prompting some to label this month "awful April" - the government is facing fresh calls to take action to limit the impact of some of the increases. The Liberal Democrats claimed ministers needed to "get a grip" on energy bills. - Guardian

• JPMorgan starts coverage of Wise at 'overweight'

  Monday 31 Mar 2025

  (Sharecast News) - JPMorgan Cazenove initiated coverage of Wise on Monday with an 'overweight' rating and a 1,242p price target.

• Monday newspaper round-up: Scams, Aviva, retailers

  Monday 31 Mar 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Anti-scam campaign groups are calling for police forces to be much tougher on fraudsters, who they claim are scamming millions from victims in "a penalty-free crime". The pleas are being made just days after the UK government announced it is working on an "expanded" fraud strategy as part of a "robust response" to surging reported fraud rates, which rose by 19% last year according to the Office for National Statistics. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Trump, Airbus, Tesla

  Sunday 30 Mar 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Senior UK and EU diplomats advised the Prime Minister on Saturday to fight back against Donald Trump should he pursue harsh tariffs on British exports. British government officials in Washington and London were in the midst of trying to head-off US trade duties on key UK industries. In particular, there is concern regarding the threat to impose reciprocal 25% tariffs on countries that levy VAT on America's exports. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Energy bills, net zero, HSBC

  Friday 28 Mar 2025

  (Sharecast News) - British bill payers remain exposed to another energy crisis while facing "worryingly high" energy debts and some of the highest electricity costs in the world, parliament's spending watchdog has warned. The public accounts committee (PAC) said ministers had not put in place sufficient safeguards to shield households against another energy crisis or taken steps to permanently reduce Britain's energy prices. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Retailers, Trump tariffs, tax rises

  Thursday 27 Mar 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Major investors including Axa and Scottish Widows are backing shareholder resolutions pressing retailers Next, Marks & Spencer and JD Sports to increase pay for thousands of workers. More than 100 individuals and eight institutional investors, which manage over £1tn in assets, are backing an effort to encourage companies to pay a "real living wage", which is designed to ensure workers can cover necessary household costs. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Consumer confidence, FCA, Octopus Energy

  Tuesday 25 Mar 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Consumers are cutting back spending on everyday items amid falling confidence in the UK economy before Rachel Reeves's spring statement, according to a survey. As the chancellor prepares to confirm billions of pounds in cuts to welfare and government spending on Wednesday, the research by KPMG showed growing numbers of people in Britain believed the economy was heading in the wrong direction. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, Gatwick Airport, Ebury

  Monday 24 Mar 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Keir Starmer has been warned against "appeasing" Donald Trump as he considers reducing a major tax for US tech companies while cutting disability benefits and public sector jobs. His chancellor, Rachel Reeves, confirmed on Sunday that there were "ongoing" discussions about the UK's £1bn-a-year digital services tax that affects companies including Meta and Amazon. - Guardian

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