• Wednesday newspaper round-up: House listings, Sizewell C, Wayve, PwC

  Wednesday 25 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Spring has come early to the UK housing market, with a surge in people listing their homes for sale as confidence returns to the sector, a report by the property website Zoopla found. The site said this month was on course to record the highest number of newly listed homes for sale in any February for a decade. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Paramount Skydance, retail crime, unemployment

  Tuesday 24 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Paramount Skydance has increased its bid for Warner Bros Discovery, Reuters reported on Monday, raising the stakes in the bidding war for the historic studio and its broadcast and cable TV assets in an effort to beat out rival suitor Netflix. It could not immediately be determined how the bid was revised. Warner Bros and Paramount declined to comment, while Netflix could not immediately be reached. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: US tariffs, job vacancies, Mayfair hotels

  Monday 23 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The US will not back out of tariff deals it has already sealed with countries around the world, including the UK, the EU, Japan, Switzerland and others, Donald Trump's trade representative Jamieson Greer said on Sunday. The US supreme court ruled on Friday that many of the tariffs imposed by the US president were illegal, leading Trump to announce a new 15% global tariff on all imports the next day. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: UK energy costs, Trump tariffs, Ghislaine Maxwell, Ukraine, BrewDog, Brompton Bicycle

  Sunday 22 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK risks losing its position as a major manufacturing hub after a sharp rise in energy costs forced around 40% of firms to scale back investment, according to a report from the CBI and Energy UK, cited by The Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Donald Trump, Telegraph sale, Blue Owl

  Friday 20 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A new 33-strong drone unit is being deployed to investigate the scourge of illegal waste dumping across England, the government has announced. The improvements to the investigation of illegal waste dumping - which costs the UK economy £1bn a year - come as the ringleader of a major waste crime gang was ordered to pay £1.4m after being convicted at Birmingham crown court. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Retailers, Tesla, Rachel Reeves

  Thursday 19 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK retailers are planning to cut staff hours and jobs amid rising employment costs and pessimism about the economy. Almost two-thirds (61%) of finance bosses at retail companies said they planned to reduce working hours or cut overtime, according to the latest survey from the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the trade body that represents most big retailers. More than half (55%) said they would cut head office jobs and 42% said they would reduce jobs in stores. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: British Steel, Japan/US, net zero

  Wednesday 18 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - British Steel has secured an order worth tens of millions of pounds to supply rail for a high-speed electric railway in Turkey, amid continuing uncertainty over the long-term future of the government-controlled steelworks in Scunthorpe. The site will supply 36,000 tonnes of rail to ERG International Group, the company announced, in what it called an "eight-figure agreement". - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Vista/Mastercard alternative, KPMG, Boots/Morrisons

  Tuesday 17 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK bank bosses will hold their first meeting to establish a national alternative to Visa and Mastercard, amid growing fears over Donald Trump's ability to turn off US-owned payment systems. The meeting, chaired by Barclays' UK chief executive, Vim Maru, will take place this Thursday and bring together a group of City funders that will front the costs of a new payments company to keep the UK economy running if problems were to occur. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Interest rates, Morrisons, Octopus Investments

  Monday 16 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The Trades Union Congress is urging the Bank of England to cut interest rates and rekindle economic growth, pointing to analysis showing that cash-strapped consumers are lagging their international peers. The Bank's monetary policy committee voted 5-4 to leave borrowing costs unchanged this month, after six cuts since mid-2024. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Labour Party, BrewDog, Peter Mandelson, Restore Britain, Greene King, LSEG

  Sunday 15 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A group of 25 Labour MPs and several trade union leaders have urged Keir Starmer to abandon what they described as a "narrow, factional agenda", according to the Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, NS&I, BBC

  Friday 13 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it raised $30bn in its latest funding round that values the Claude maker and OpenAI rival at $380bn, underscoring the breakneck pace of AI investments. The round, led by the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and hedge fund Coatue Management, is among the largest private fundraising deals on record and comes just five months after Anthropic closed its previous round at a $183bn valuation - meaning the company has more than doubled in value since September. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, NS&I, BBC

  Friday 13 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it raised $30bn in its latest funding round that values the Claude maker and OpenAI rival at $380bn, underscoring the breakneck pace of AI investments. The round, led by the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and hedge fund Coatue Management, is among the largest private fundraising deals on record and comes just five months after Anthropic closed its previous round at a $183bn valuation - meaning the company has more than doubled in value since September. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, NS&I, BBC

  Friday 13 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it raised $30bn in its latest funding round that values the Claude maker and OpenAI rival at $380bn, underscoring the breakneck pace of AI investments. The round, led by the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and hedge fund Coatue Management, is among the largest private fundraising deals on record and comes just five months after Anthropic closed its previous round at a $183bn valuation - meaning the company has more than doubled in value since September. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Housing market, Tesco, Orbex

  Thursday 12 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - There are "tentative signs" that the housing market in England and Wales is recovering from a months-long slowdown after uncertainty around the autumn budget and economic pressures, estate agents and surveyors have reported. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said its members were feeling more optimistic about the year ahead than at any time since December 2024, as inquiries from new buyers, agreed sales and house prices became less negative in January. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Housing market, Tesco, Orbex

  Thursday 12 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - There are "tentative signs" that the housing market in England and Wales is recovering from a months-long slowdown after uncertainty around the autumn budget and economic pressures, estate agents and surveyors have reported. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said its members were feeling more optimistic about the year ahead than at any time since December 2024, as inquiries from new buyers, agreed sales and house prices became less negative in January. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Franchise businesses, Lloyds, small businesses

  Wednesday 11 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK government needs to eradicate "unsustainable" gaps in the policing of franchise businesses after a series of scandals to hit the sector, a parliamentary committee has found. The conclusion forms part of the business and trade committee's small business strategy report and follows a Guardian investigation in December which revealed claims that Adrian Howe, a former Vodafone employee who had agreed to become a franchisee in 2018, drowned after becoming convinced his deal with the multinational company would prove financially disastrous. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Index of corruption, net zero, small businesses

  Tuesday 10 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - It would take 137 years for lower-income families in the UK to see their living standards double at the current rate of growth, according to a thinktank. A two-decade stagnation in disposable incomes has created a "mood of unease" across the country, the Resolution Foundation says, warning of the risk of "further political disruption" unless pay growth accelerates. In the 40 years to 2005, the typical disposable income of working-age families in the poorest half of the population doubled, after growing by 1.8% a year on average once adjusted for inflation, according to the thinktank. In the final decade of that period, growth in disposable incomes rose by 4% a year and looked on course to double within 18 years. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Train drivers, bank chairs, Ocado, cash ISAs

  Monday 09 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Labour will introduce legislation to lower the minimum age for train drivers to 18 in the House of Commons this week, as figures show fewer than 3% of drivers on Great Britain's railways are under 30. The government is pressing ahead with its proposals for teenage recruits, lowering the minimum age from 20, in a move that ministers hope will stave off a potential shortage of thousands of drivers. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Water executive bonuses, British Steel, Gorton and Denton by‑election, Vladimir Alexeyev shooting, Tata Steel, M&S

  Sunday 08 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The government will move to shut down loopholes that have allowed executives at struggling water companies to keep collecting hefty payouts despite a bonus ban introduced last year, according to reporting in the Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Amazon, Barclays, Epstein

  Friday 06 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Amazon announced plans to spend $200bn on artificial intelligence and robotics this year, the latest tech giant to vow fresh enormous investments in the artificial intelligence arms race. The news of the investment comes one day after the Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced it was cutting approximately a third of employees. - Guardian

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