• Monday newspaper round-up: Cryptocurrencies, jobs downturn, Cycle Pharma

  Monday 15 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Cryptocurrencies will be regulated in a similar way to other financial products under legislation coming into force in 2027. The Treasury is drawing up rules that will require crypto companies to meet a set of standards overseen by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Ministers have sought to overhaul the crypto market, which has ballooned in popularity as a way of investing money and making payments. Cryptocurrencies have not been subject to the same regulation as traditional financial products such as stocks and shares, which means that in many cases consumers do not enjoy the same level of protection. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Anti-labour YouTube content, UK ambassador to Washington, Tories vow to scrap 2030 car bans, NHS, Syria attack, Drax, DMGT

  Sunday 14 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - YouTube channels spreading fake, anti‑Labour content have racked up more than a billion views this year, according to research seen by the Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: OBR, franchise agreements, GoCardless

  Friday 12 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - MPs have launched an inquiry into the role and performance of the Office for Budget Responsibility. The all-party Commons Treasury committee will spend until the end of next month investigating the independent agency's forecasting performance and impartiality. The panel will consider whether reforms are needed 15 years after the OBR was set up by George Osborne when he was Tory chancellor. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Youth employment, SpaceX, EY

  Thursday 11 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Britain is slipping down the global league table for youth employment amid a dramatic rise in worklessness that is putting a generation's future at risk, research has warned. Sounding the alarm over a worsening youth jobs crisis, the report from the accountancy firm PwC said Britain's economy was missing out on £26bn a year because of sharp regional divisions in youth joblessness. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: UK borrowing costs, Channel 4, Anduril

  Wednesday 10 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The "premium" that the UK pays to borrow money compared with its international peers may be coming to an end as markets grow more confident about the government's plans, a thinktank has suggested. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said that the chancellor Rachel Reeves's announcement in the autumn budget that she would be more than doubling the UK's financial headroom by 2030 from £9.9bn to £22bn had begun to assure bond markets about Labour's fiscal approach. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: household spending, British Library, Jamie Dimon, WPP

  Tuesday 09 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - UK households cut back on spending at the fastest pace in almost five years last month as consumers put Christmas shopping on hold, according to a leading survey. Adding to concerns that uncertainty surrounding the budget has helped dampen consumer confidence, Barclays said card spending fell 1.1% year on year in November - the largest fall since February 2021. The bank said retailers still enjoyed their busiest day of the year so far on Black Friday, with transaction volumes 62.5% higher than the average day for 2025. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Neso, local authorities, Anglo American

  Monday 08 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Britain's energy system operator is pulling the plug on hundreds of electricity generation projects to clear a huge backlog that is stopping "shovel-ready" schemes from connecting to the power grid. Developers will be told on Monday whether their plans will be dismissed by the National Energy System Operator (Neso) - or whether they will be prioritised to connect by either the end of the decade or 2035. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Reform, Ukraine, 'Swift courts', Airbus, Elon Musk

  Sunday 07 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Reform UK expelled a senior local figure on Friday after broadcaster Sangita Myska alleged she had been subjected to racial slurs, with the Guardian reporting that Nigel Farage's rhetoric was emboldening attacks on people of colour. Myska, who has presented programmes for the BBC and LBC, said former Staffordshire council leader Ian Cooper told her she was English "only in your dreams" because of her south Asian heritage. Cooper, a two‑time Reform UK parliamentary candidate, was forced to resign his council leadership role after the party revoked his membership. The Guardian noted that the incident has raised fresh concerns about the tone of political debate and its impact on minority communities.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Versace, Rightmove, Acorn project

  Friday 05 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - City regulators have announced a package of changes aimed at bolstering growth across the mutuals and co-operatives sector after the Labour government promised to double the size of the £223bn industry. Top officials from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England will join the city minister, Lucy Rigby, in Rochdale - the birthplace of the UK's co-operative movement - on Friday to set out plans to streamline regulation, simplify applications and launch a new mutual societies development unit to provide expert advice and support. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Post Office, Ben & Jerry's, Anthropic

  Thursday 04 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The Post Office has avoided a fine over a data breach that resulted in the mistaken online publication of the names and addresses of more than 500 post office operators it had been pursuing during the Horizon IT scandal. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reprimanded the Post Office over the breach, in which the company's press office accidentally published an unredacted version of a legal settlement document with the operators on its website. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: OBR, Tesla, Safran, JLR

  Wednesday 03 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The Office for Budget Responsibility complained to senior Treasury officials in the run-up to the budget about a flurry of leaks that it said spread "misconceptions" about its forecasts, it has emerged. Prof David Miles of the OBR's budget responsibility committee told MPs on the Treasury select committee on Tuesday that the watchdog had raised the issue of leaks with the department before the chancellor's statement last week. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Zipcar, BP, Volvo/Polestar

  Tuesday 02 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - As the battle lines harden amid Germany's intensifying pressure on the European Commission to scrap the 2035 ban on production of new petrol and diesel cars, two Swedish car companies, Volvo and Polestar, are leading the campaign to persuade Brussels to stick to the date. They argue such a move is a desperate attempt to paper over the cracks in the German car industry, adding that it will not just prolong take up of electric vehicles but inadvertently hand the advantage to China. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Black Friday, Gail's, Evri, Amazon

  Monday 01 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Shoppers held back from visiting high streets over Black Friday, data shows, amid fears weak consumer spending will put the brakes on economic growth in 2026. Visitors to all UK shopping destinations were down 2% on Friday and 7.2% compared with the equivalent days last year, according to the monitoring company MRI Software, with locations near central London offices among the few to experience a lift in visits. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Black Friday, Gail's, Evri, Amazon

  Monday 01 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Shoppers held back from visiting high streets over Black Friday, data shows, amid fears weak consumer spending will put the brakes on economic growth in 2026. Visitors to all UK shopping destinations were down 2% on Friday and 7.2% compared with the equivalent days last year, according to the monitoring company MRI Software, with locations near central London offices among the few to experience a lift in visits. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Black Friday, Gail's, Evri, Amazon

  Monday 01 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Shoppers held back from visiting high streets over Black Friday, data shows, amid fears weak consumer spending will put the brakes on economic growth in 2026. Visitors to all UK shopping destinations were down 2% on Friday and 7.2% compared with the equivalent days last year, according to the monitoring company MRI Software, with locations near central London offices among the few to experience a lift in visits. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Black Friday, Gail's, Evri, Amazon

  Monday 01 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Shoppers held back from visiting high streets over Black Friday, data shows, amid fears weak consumer spending will put the brakes on economic growth in 2026. Visitors to all UK shopping destinations were down 2% on Friday and 7.2% compared with the equivalent days last year, according to the monitoring company MRI Software, with locations near central London offices among the few to experience a lift in visits. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Rachel Reeves, Ukraine strikes Russian tankers, Greggs, Bank of England, Vladimir Putin, Your Party, Hong Kong fire, UN report on Israel

  Sunday 30 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves was fighting to save her job on Saturday after the Office for Budget Responsibility published a detailed account of its pre‑Budget discussions with the Treasury, according to the Telegraph. The watchdog revealed that statements from the Chancellor and her officials had overstated the fiscal shortfall, paving the way for tax rises and higher welfare spending.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Hinkley Point, HICL/TRIG, Heathrow

  Friday 28 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has been warned that her plans for tax rises and spending restraint in the run-up to the next general election resemble a work of "fiscal fiction", as MPs expressed concern about the impact of her budget on their constituents. A day after the chancellor's statement, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said Reeves had chosen a high-risk strategy by backloading the squeeze to just before voters go to the polls in 2029. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Retailers, first-time buyers, Kevin Hassett

  Thursday 27 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Retailers have breathed a sigh of relief after changes to their business rates bills in the budget were not as bad as feared, after the industry had warned for months that more punitive measures could lead to shop closures and jobs losses. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, on Wednesday revealed plans to permanently reduce business rates for retail, hospitality and leisure properties - although the discounts are not as generous as those that have been in place since the pandemic. About 750,000 properties in those sectors will see their bills set below the current standard level, with deeper discounts for smaller operators, according to the government. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: BP, Tesla, Advent International

  Wednesday 26 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The UK government has been accused of caving-in to pressure from the British Virgin Islands by allowing it to limit access to a register of company share ownership to only those deemed to have a legitimate interest. The restriction, to be discussed at talks starting on Tuesday between Foreign Office ministers and leaders of the British overseas territories (BOTs) in London, is in defiance of legislation passed by the UK government as long ago as 2008 that would make the register available to all. - Guardian

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