• Wednesday newspaper round-up: House prices, LK Bennett, Seasalt

  Wednesday 31 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - First-time buyers are expected to drive the UK housing market in 2026, with further interest rate cuts likely to improve stretched affordability. The for-sale market should accelerate moderately, with prices rising by 2% to 4%, while rent rises are likely to slow from the rapid increases of recent years, according to lenders and estate agents. With mortgage rates falling, earnings growth running ahead of inflation, and house prices rising slowly, monthly mortgage costs for first-time buyers as a share of income are at their lowest level since 2022, according to Halifax. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Consumer spending, house prices, Octopus Energy

  Tuesday 30 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - UK consumers are reluctant to spend going into 2026 despite feeling almost as secure about their personal finances as they did at the beginning of the year, according to research. A study by the accountancy multinational KPMG found that concerns about the health of the UK economy were holding consumers back from spending, especially on eating out and big ticket items such as cars and furniture. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Consumer spending, house prices, Octopus Energy

  Tuesday 30 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - UK consumers are reluctant to spend going into 2026 despite feeling almost as secure about their personal finances as they did at the beginning of the year, according to research. A study by the accountancy multinational KPMG found that concerns about the health of the UK economy were holding consumers back from spending, especially on eating out and big ticket items such as cars and furniture. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Elon Musk, gambling companies, Rolls-Royce CEO

  Monday 29 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - A surge in the price of silver to record highs this month has prompted a warning from Elon Musk that manufacturers could suffer the consequences. Silver has risen sharply during December, part of a precious metals rally that also pushed gold and platinum to record levels on Boxing Day. Analysts have attributed the jump in prices to expectations of US interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve in 2026, leading to increased demand for hard assets that protect against inflation and currency debasement. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: YouTube AI slop, Kyiv heating outages, Labour visa restrictions, mansion tax, Wagamama price rises, contactless ticketing fare increases

  Sunday 28 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - More than a fifth of the videos recommended to new YouTube users are low‑quality AI‑generated clips designed to maximise views, according to research reported by the Guardian. Video‑editing firm Kapwing analysed 15,000 of the platform's most popular channels and found that 278 consisted entirely of so‑called AI slop. Those channels have collectively drawn more than 63bn views and more than 200m subscribers, generating an estimated $117m in annual revenue.

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Train companies, Jes Staley, farmers IHT

  Wednesday 24 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Train companies have been warned over price claims made on their ticketing websites after the advertising watchdog banned ads run by three sellers. The Advertising Standards Authority ruled that claims made for fares booked via ScotRail and Greater Anglia's website, as well as by a third-party ticketing site, My Train Ticket, were misleading. In all three cases, the ASA said, it found the companies could not provide evidence to show that people would get the lowest available price by booking train tickets through them. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: EU trade deal, Post Office, Nelson Peltz

  Tuesday 23 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Keir Starmer's government has been told a closer EU trade deal is a "strategic necessity" for companies in Britain as growing numbers of exporters find it tougher to do business under the UK's post-Brexit agreement. Calling on Labour to accelerate its reset with Brussels, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said the UK's existing trade and cooperation agreement (TCA) was failing to help them grow their sales in the EU. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: EU trade deal, Post Office, Nelson Peltz

  Tuesday 23 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Keir Starmer's government has been told a closer EU trade deal is a "strategic necessity" for companies in Britain as growing numbers of exporters find it tougher to do business under the UK's post-Brexit agreement. Calling on Labour to accelerate its reset with Brussels, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said the UK's existing trade and cooperation agreement (TCA) was failing to help them grow their sales in the EU. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Turkeys, UK manufacturers, graduate jobs

  Monday 22 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Several of the UK's big supermarkets have been forced to source turkeys from elsewhere in Europe to keep shelves stocked this Christmas, after avian flu curtailed UK production. Asda, Lidl and Morrisons are understood to be stocking branded turkey imported from mainland Europe - a move industry sources described as "unprecedented" - to "protect availability" and ensure sufficient supply for festive meals. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Epstein files, French border control IT issues, Ed Miliband, International Media Investments, NHS death rates, Rachel Reeves

  Sunday 21 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump's justice department came under fire on Friday after releasing a heavily redacted batch of Jeffrey Epstein files, in what lawmakers said was a breach of legislation requiring near‑complete disclosure by the deadline.

• Friday newspaper round-up: TikTok, BP, Hogan Lovells

  Friday 19 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US business to three American investors - Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX - ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating in the United States. The deal is expected to close on 22 January, according to an internal memo seen by he Associated Press and Reuters. The TikTok chief executive officer, Shou Zi Chew, said in the memo that ByteDance and TikTok have signed binding agreements with the three investors. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Höfner, Sotheby's, Christie's

  Thursday 18 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Ministers and senior MPs have warned that the UK's agreements with Donald Trump are "built on sand" after the Guardian established that the deal to avoid drug tariffs has no underlying text beyond limited headline terms. The "milestone" US-UK deal announced this month on pharmaceuticals, which will mean the NHS pays more for medicines in exchange for a promise of zero tariffs on the industry, still lacks a legal footing beyond top lines contained in two government press releases. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Grangemouth ethylene plant, Warner Bros, ChatGPT

  Wednesday 17 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Jim Ratcliffe's chemicals company Ineos has been granted £120m of government funding to help save the UK's last ethylene plant at Grangemouth, in a deal expected to protect more than 500 jobs. The investment in the Scottish plant was necessary to preserve a vital part of the country's chemicals infrastructure, the UK government said. The ethylene produced there was essential for medical-grade plastics production, water treatment and in aerospace and car-building, it added. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Nissan, Morrisons, Ford

  Tuesday 16 Dec 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Nissan has started the production of its latest electric car in Sunderland, a crucial step in the UK automotive industry's transition away from petrol and diesel. The Japanese manufacturer will launch the third generation of the Leaf on Tuesday, which was the first mass-market battery electric car to be built in the UK. Nissan has made 282,704 Leaf models at the north-east England plant so far. - Guardian

• 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

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