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  • Thursday newspaper round-up: 'Buy EU', BrewDog, Morgan Stanley
    05 Mar, 2026 07:23
    (Sharecast News) - The European Commission has proposed a "Buy EU" plan to boost domestic low-carbon industries and help the continent compete against China. The commission published a draft regulation - called the Industrial Accelerator Act - on Wednesda

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: News Corp, BBC, Asda
    04 Mar, 2026 07:19
    (Sharecast News) - News Corp's global chief executive has described news organisations as a valuable "input" for artificial intelligence, as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50m (A$71m) a year. In an upbeat pres

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: Anthropic's Claude, BrewDog, energy bills
    03 Mar, 2026 07:19
    (Sharecast News) - The AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns. Claude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple's chart of top free apps on Saturday in the US - dethroning OpenAI's ChatGPT,

  • Monday newspaper round-up: OBR, Rolls-Royce, small businesses
    02 Mar, 2026 07:15
    (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves must reform the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to open the way to more public investment, an alliance of thinktanks has argued ahead of the chancellor's spring forecast on Tuesday. With Keir Starmer's government un

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: Iran, Reform UK, Ukraine
    01 Mar, 2026 09:16
    (Sharecast News) - Iranian state media confirmed that supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed, following USIsraeli strikes that marked the opening phase of a campaign aimed at regime change. Khamenei had not been seen since the bombardment began, w

  • Friday newspaper round-up: Mandelson, social media, Lloyds
    27 Feb, 2026 07:21
    (Sharecast News) - Peter Mandelson is facing an inquiry by the EU's anti-fraud agency after the European Commission requested the body look into his activities during his time as trade commissioner in Brussels. The commission said it referred the peer, 72

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: UK Power Networks, Starlink, farmers
    26 Feb, 2026 07:12
    (Sharecast News) - A French utility has agreed to buy the owner of the electricity cables and power lines across London, the south-east and the east of England in a deal worth £10.5bn. Paris-headquartered Engie said on Wednesday that it had struck a deal

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: House listings, Sizewell C, Wayve, PwC
    25 Feb, 2026 07:20
    (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

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: Paramount Skydance, retail crime, unemployment
    24 Feb, 2026 07:20
    (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 Ne

  • Monday newspaper round-up: US tariffs, job vacancies, Mayfair hotels
    23 Feb, 2026 07:19
    (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 c

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