• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Vodafone, car finance loans, UK legal services

  Wednesday 10 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Vodafone has launched a fourth investigation into the historical conduct within its franchising division, which is at the centre of a £120m high court claim against the mobile phone group. Vodafone is also understood to have offered financial settlements to a selection of former franchisees who are outside the group of 62 currently suing the business. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Murdoch family, UK banks, Pret A Manger

  Tuesday 09 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The succession battle at Rupert Murdoch's media empire has ended. The family announced on Monday that Lachlan Murdoch, Murdoch's eldest son, will secure control of the Murdochs' sprawling media empire that includes Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The Times in the UK, with his three oldest siblings receiving an estimated $1.1bn each for their shares in the business. - Guardian

• Citi upgrades Marks & Spencer to 'buy', sees attractive entry point

  Monday 08 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Citi upgraded Marks & Spencer on Monday to 'buy' from 'neutral' and lifted the price target to 440p from 380p as it said structural tailwinds are underappreciated.

• Monday newspaper round-up: ASA, jobseekers, Waitrose

  Monday 08 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Londoners are buying the lowest share of houses outside the capital in more than a decade as their moving plans are curtailed by a stalling local market and the shift back to office working. They were behind just 5.3% of house purchases elsewhere in the country in the first seven months of this year, the lowest proportion since 2013, research has found. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: OPEC+, WH Smith, Nuclear

  Sunday 07 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - OPEC+ will boost production again starting from the following month. Eight of the cartel's members, including Saudi Arabia, which wants to regain market share, will increase output by a combined 137,000 barrels a day. The idea is to begin reversing a cumulative 1.65m barrel a day reduction more than one year early. Another reduction that had previously been carried out worth 2m barrels a day is expected to remain in place until the end of 2026. President Trump has been pressuring the group to hike output. - Sunday Times

• Friday newspaper round-up: Tube strikes, Lisa Cook, Ørsted

  Friday 05 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Strikes by tube staff are due to start on Friday, in a series of walkouts that are expected to close the London Underground entirely for four days from Monday. Londoners have been urged to check before travel next week, with virtually no tube services expected to run and other transport in the capital likely to be affected by crowding and congestion. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Prax Lindsey oil refinery, US home ownership, M&S hacker

  Thursday 04 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The government could save energy users £5bn a year by overhauling the electricity market to stop gas-fired power stations from setting the wholesale price for electricity, according to the former energy tsar. Britain relies on gas plants for about a quarter of its annual electricity use, but they play a much greater role during spells of low wind and low solar generation. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, Amazon, John Lewis

  Wednesday 03 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Thames Water customers are set to get less bang for their buck if a consortium of creditors wins approval for its rescue plan. The development was revealed in the outline of a business plan - without some key spending details - published on Wednesday by the investors who hold much of the company's debts. The consortium is called London & Valley Water. - Guardian

• JPMorgan starts Harbour Energy at 'overweight'

  Tuesday 02 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - JPMorgan Cazenove initiated coverage of Harbour Energy on Tuesday with an 'overweight' rating and 298p price target.

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Nestle, UK borrowing costs, Equinor, Thames Water

  Tuesday 02 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Nestlé has dismissed its chief executive, Laurent Freixe, after an investigation into an "undisclosed romantic relationship" with a subordinate that was found to have breached its code of business conduct. The Swiss-headquartered multinational named Philipp Navratil as his replacement. Nestlé said Freixe's departure after 40 years at the company followed an investigation overseen by its chair, Paul Bulcke, and lead independent director, Pablo Isla, with the support of outside counsel, into the relationship with a direct subordinate in breach of company's conduct code. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Fraud law, council tax bills, Supacat

  Monday 01 Sep 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Norway has agreed a £10bn deal for anti-submarine warships that will be built in the UK, as the two countries plan joint operations in northern Europe to deal with increased Russian activity. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the agreement to build Type 26 frigates was the UK's biggest ever warship export deal by value, and Norway's biggest defence procurement deal. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: 30-year bond yields, France, BAE Systems

  Sunday 31 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Thirty-year bond yields have notched multiple new record highs thus far in 2025 - for all the wrong reasons. That on the 30-year bond had stayed at around 5.6%, near a three-decade high. That is also the highest yield among G7 countries. Should a country's rate of economic growth not be set to exceed the average rate on its debt, then it is in trouble, as that is taken as a sign of future default. France's prime minister seems to be facing the impossible task of cutting spending and raising taxes to lower its deficit. In Britain, there is talk of a fiscal hole of as much as £40bn. The US deficit meanwhile could jump by over $2trn over the next 10 years as a result of President Trump's tax cuts. - The Sunday Times

• Friday newspaper round-up: Bank tax, package shipments, winter fuel raid

  Friday 29 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves should levy a new bank tax and urge the Bank of England to halt bond sales to reduce the government's £22bn-a-year losses from quantitative easing, the IPPR thinktank has argued. In a report called Fixing the Leak, the IPPR's associate director for economic policy, Carsten Jung, says the Treasury should rein in the costs of QE as public finances are tight. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Property taxes, Ryanair, Addleshaw Goddard

  Thursday 28 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Speculation that the chancellor could announce new property taxes in her autumn budget is likely to slow down an already price-sensitive housing market, estate agents have said. Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering a tax on the sale of homes over £500,000 and the removal of the capital gains tax exemption on primary residences above £1.5m as ways to boost income for the government. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: AI, Caterpillar, Lisa Cook

  Wednesday 27 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - UK companies spent up to £65m last year on licences to export food and agricultural products to the EU - costs that the government is promising to eliminate as part of a new deal to be agreed by 2027. Government figures released on Tuesday showed it issued 328,727 such licences last year, at a cost of between £113 and £200 each. That would put the total cost to business at somewhere between £37m and £65m. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: M&S, Royal Mail, Orsted

  Tuesday 26 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump has moved to fire the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over allegations she committed mortgage fraud, the latest escalation in the US president's attack on the central bank's independence. Trump wrote to Cook on Monday, telling her that he was removing her from her position "effective immediately" based on the allegation from one of his allies that she had obtained a mortgage on a second home she incorrectly described as her primary residence. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: M&S, Royal Mail, Orsted

  Tuesday 26 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump has moved to fire the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over allegations she committed mortgage fraud, the latest escalation in the US president's attack on the central bank's independence. Trump wrote to Cook on Monday, telling her that he was removing her from her position "effective immediately" based on the allegation from one of his allies that she had obtained a mortgage on a second home she incorrectly described as her primary residence. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: M&S, Royal Mail, Orsted

  Tuesday 26 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump has moved to fire the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over allegations she committed mortgage fraud, the latest escalation in the US president's attack on the central bank's independence. Trump wrote to Cook on Monday, telling her that he was removing her from her position "effective immediately" based on the allegation from one of his allies that she had obtained a mortgage on a second home she incorrectly described as her primary residence. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: UK debt crisis, Iranian uranium enrichment, OpenAI, British carmakers, Trump tariffs, asylum overhaul

  Monday 25 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves' tax-and-spend gamble is driving Britain towards a 1970s-style debt crisis and bailout from the International Monetary Fund, leading economists have warned. They have said the Chancellor's handling of the economy risks a return to the years of high inflation and borrowing that ended with Britain being forced to borrow billions from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 50 years ago. It came as leading retailers sounded the alarm over the rising cost of taxes and red tape, which is pushing the country into an era of "stagflation". - The Sunday Telegraph

• Friday newspaper round-up: Elon Musk, JCB, Standard Chartered

  Friday 22 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Elon Musk's company, Tesla, should have its application to supply energy to UK homes blocked on national security grounds, Ed Davey has told ministers. The Liberal Democrat leader argued that giving the electric car manufacturer a foothold in the British energy market would be "a gravely concerning move considering Elon Musk's repeated interference in UK politics". - Guardian

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