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  • Monday newspaper round-up: Pubs, country houses, Severn Trent
    14 Jul, 2025 07:19
    (Sharecast News) - The boss of the pub chain Greene King has called for changes to business rates to remedy "unfairness" that he said added to financial pressures on the struggling pubs industry. Nick Mackenzie, Greene King's chief executive, said the bus

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: EU tariffs, Begbies Traynor, Burberry's
    13 Jul, 2025 12:34
    (Sharecast News) - The US President announced that imports from the EU and Mexico would both be taxed at 30% commencing on 1 August. The announcement was a surprise for both Brussels and the US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, as both believed that t

  • Friday newspaper round-up: Speciality Steel UK, Canada tariffs, X and Meta
    11 Jul, 2025 07:22
    (Sharecast News) - Ministers are considering options to step in to save another major steel plant if its parent company collapses into administration after a key court case next week. The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, is understood to be looking

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, high streets, X boss
    10 Jul, 2025 07:20
    (Sharecast News) - Thames Water paid almost £2.5m to senior managers from an emergency loan that was meant to be used to keep the failing utilities company afloat - and has refused to claw back the payments, newly released documents reveal. The strugglin

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: Wealth tax, net zero economy, Sizewell C
    09 Jul, 2025 07:20
    (Sharecast News) - The London stock market risks "drifting into irrelevance" without government and regulatory reforms, ranging from tax breaks for stock market listings to looser bonus rules for directors, a lobbying group has said. The 20 recommendation

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: NDAs, Amazon, wealth tax, Seraphine
    08 Jul, 2025 07:25
    (Sharecast News) - Bosses in the UK will be banned from using non-disclosure agreements to silence employees who have suffered harassment and discrimination in the workplace as part of the government's overhaul of workers' rights. Ministers will on Monday

  • Monday newspaper round-up: EasyJet staff, hiring confidence, Apple
    07 Jul, 2025 07:25
    (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump has said that his administration plans to start sending letters on Monday to US trade partners dictating new tariffs, amid confusion over when the new rates will come into effect. "It could be 12, maybe 15 [letters]," the p

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: Trade, AstraZeneca, Tax hikes
    06 Jul, 2025 12:41
    (Sharecast News) - Brussels is heading into a critical week, with just two to go to clinch a trade agreement with the US or face a 50% levy on its exports. At stake are ¬1.6trn in transatlantic trade. Germany is down as favouring a quick deal akin to th

  • Friday newspaper round-up: Car sales, Vodafone, Glencore
    04 Jul, 2025 07:20
    (Sharecast News) - Ed Miliband has unveiled plans to make it easier for homeowners to install wind turbines in their gardens as part of a mass expansion of green power. The Energy Secretary has announced a consultation on relaxing planning rules governing

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: Shorter working week, Microsoft, EY
    03 Jul, 2025 07:21
    (Sharecast News) - Nearly 1,000 British workers will adopt a permanently shorter working week, after the latest trial of a four-day week and similar changes to traditional working patterns. All 17 British businesses in a six-month trial of the four-day we

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