• Thursday newspaper round-up: Stamp duty, pensions, Tate galleries, Flutter

  Thursday 13 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has been urged to abolish the "sin tax" of stamp duty in the budget by property experts including TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp, as the chancellor faced calls to replace it with an annual property tax. Allsopp, presenter of Channel 4 property shows including Location, Location, Location, said "people are in a panic" about potential stamp duty changes, and "sitting tight" ahead of the 26 November budget. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Heathrow, InstaDeep, LNG

  Wednesday 12 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world's energy watchdog, making the transition away from fossil fuels "inevitable", despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe. The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than has been rolled out over the last 40, according to the flagship annual report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Gambling tax, Warren Buffett, Legal & General

  Tuesday 11 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The Gambling Commission has demanded a UK bookmaker hand over a trove of financial documents after the company accidentally disclosed information suggesting it may be running an illegal offshore betting operation. The Guardian understands that the company, which sponsors sporting events and boasts connections to high-profile figures in sport and politics, is the subject of early inquiries that could lead to a full-blown investigation. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Drax, Royal Mail, Ovo Energy

  Monday 10 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada's oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say. A new report suggests it is "highly likely" that Britain's biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain's single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Pension funds, OpenAI, Goodwin Procter

  Friday 07 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - More than 250 British company bosses have urged Rachel Reeves to use her budget to make UK pension schemes channel extra funds into domestic businesses, increasing private investment by as much as £95bn. In a letter to the chancellor, business leaders said the government must address a crisis in which pension investment in UK-listed companies has fallen from 53% of total equity holdings in 1997 to 4% this year. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Fired Earth, Nick Candy, Nvidia boss

  Thursday 06 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The firm linked to the former Conservative peer Michelle Mone that was found last month to have supplied unusable personal protective equipment during the pandemic owes £39m in unpaid taxes, according to company documents. PPE Medpro, owned by Mone's husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman, was put into administration on 30 September, the day before the high court judgment was made public. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Worklessness crisis, telecoms companies, fuel duty

  Wednesday 05 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Employers have been told in a landmark government review that fixing Britain's health-related worklessness crisis will require them to spend £6bn a year on support for their staff. In a major report before this month's budget, Charlie Mayfield warned that businesses needed to play a more central role in tackling a rising tide of ill-health that is pushing millions of people out of work. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Ofwat, Budget, law firms

  Tuesday 04 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - More than $70tn (£53tn) of inherited wealth will pass down the generations across the world over the next decade, widening inequality and highlighting the need for intervention by the G20 group of leading nations, a group of economists and campaigners have warned. In a report ahead of the G20 meetings in Johannesburg, hosted by the South African government later this month, the expert panel said the gap in global wealth between rich and poor will widen over the next decade without a permanent monitoring group such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Tax rises, US billionaires, national debt

  Monday 03 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The prospect of looming tax rises and a fall in business investment will restrict the UK's economic growth rate next year to less than 1%, according to a health check of the economy by a leading consultancy. With less than four weeks before Rachel Reeves delivers her budget on 26 November, the EY Item Club has downgraded Britain's growth for next year, indicating that the economy will continue to expand at a sluggish pace, limiting tax receipts and the chancellor's financial room for manoeuvre. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Car loans scandal, L'Oreal, Cambridgeshire stabbing, Ukrainian drone strike, ZTE Mobile, JLR, council taxes, national debt

  Sunday 02 Nov 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Victims of the car loans scandal could miss out on more than £4bn in compensation if the City regulator ploughs ahead with plans for an "insulting" interest rate in its redress scheme, consumer groups and claims firms say. The Financial Conduct Authority has been accused of offering a reduced rate of interest which will be added to compensation from banks for borrowers caught up in the car loan commissions scandal. Claims law firms and consumer groups say borrowers should be offered the same terms as Marcus Johnson: the sole driver whose case was upheld by the supreme court in a landmark case in August. While the terms of the final payout are sealed, Johnson is widely believed by industry experts to have received about 7% interest on his compensation package, after judges ordered the parties to negotiate a "commercial rate". - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Energy customers, Apple, copper prices

  Friday 31 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Almost 2 million energy bill payers could be owed a share of £240m from old accounts that were closed while still in credit, according to the regulator. The latest figures from Ofgem show that about 1.9m energy accounts were closed over the past five years, with outstanding credit balances totalling £240m left unclaimed. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Trade talks, The Telegraph, Meta Platforms

  Thursday 30 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump has described crucial trade talks with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in South Korea as "amazing", saying their dispute over the supply of rare earths had been settled and that he would visit China in April. In early comments, Chinese state media reported Xi as saying a "consensus" with Trump had been reached on trade issues, and that there were good prospects for cooperation on trade, immigration and fraud. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Trade talks, Rachel Reeves, Google, OpenAI

  Wednesday 29 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump landed in South Korea on Wednesday to meet President Lee Jae Myung, with deadlocked talks over a $350bn trade deal between the two countries threatening to cast a shadow over the event. After arriving on a flight from Tokyo, where he signed a rare earths deal with Japan's new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, the US president addressed a summit of CEOs ahead of a meeting with Lee in the town of Gyeongju, a historical city playing host to the annual Apec summit. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Amazon, wind power, Elon Musk

  Tuesday 28 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant's CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence. The Seattle-based technology firm is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, media outlets including Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, as it tries to cut costs and undo the vast recruitment drive it embarked on at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, which unleashed an extraordinary - but fleeting - surge in demand for online shopping. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Amazon, wind power, Elon Musk

  Tuesday 28 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant's CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence. The Seattle-based technology firm is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, media outlets including Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, as it tries to cut costs and undo the vast recruitment drive it embarked on at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, which unleashed an extraordinary - but fleeting - surge in demand for online shopping. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Amazon, wind power, Elon Musk

  Tuesday 28 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant's CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence. The Seattle-based technology firm is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, media outlets including Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, as it tries to cut costs and undo the vast recruitment drive it embarked on at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, which unleashed an extraordinary - but fleeting - surge in demand for online shopping. - Guardian

• RBC Capital starts coverage of Trustpilot at 'outperform'

  Monday 27 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - RBC Capital Markets initiated coverage of Trustpilot on Monday with an 'outperform' rating and 290p price target.

• Monday newspaper round-up: Private rents, TikTok, Yodel

  Monday 27 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Average private rents in Great Britain have climbed to record highs, with the amount tenants are being asked to pay in some hotspots rising more than 25% in a year, data shows. The typical advertised private rent outside London for properties coming on to the market rose to a record £1,385 a calendar month in the third quarter of this year, according to the property website Rightmove. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Private rents, TikTok, Yodel

  Monday 27 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Average private rents in Great Britain have climbed to record highs, with the amount tenants are being asked to pay in some hotspots rising more than 25% in a year, data shows. The typical advertised private rent outside London for properties coming on to the market rose to a record £1,385 a calendar month in the third quarter of this year, according to the property website Rightmove. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Private rents, TikTok, Yodel

  Monday 27 Oct 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Average private rents in Great Britain have climbed to record highs, with the amount tenants are being asked to pay in some hotspots rising more than 25% in a year, data shows. The typical advertised private rent outside London for properties coming on to the market rose to a record £1,385 a calendar month in the third quarter of this year, according to the property website Rightmove. - Guardian

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