Press round-up from ShareCast

Thursday newspaper round-up: Auditors, Brexit, EU tariffs, Uber

Thu 18 April 2019 07:07

(Sharecast News) - The competition watchdog has called for the Big Four auditors to split their auditing and consulting operations to address "serious" issues in the disgraced accounting sector, but stopped short of calling for a full break-up. Deloitte,

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Asda, Intel, Netflix, Mastercard

Wed 17 April 2019 07:30

(Sharecast News) - The global financial system faces an existential threat from climate change and must take urgent steps to reform, the governors of the Bank of England and France's central bank have warned, writing in the Guardian. In an article publish

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Slow growth, waning trade, Brexit stumble

Tue 16 April 2019 08:46

(Sharecast News) - Experimental early warning systems for the economy, devised by the Office for National Statistics and using VAT and road traffic data, have suggested that turnover at British companies may have weakened during the first quarter. The ONS

Monday newspaper round-up: Barclays, Domino's, TSB, Whitbread, Netflix

Mon 15 April 2019 07:20

(Sharecast News) - British businesses are the most gloomy they have been about Brexit since the 2016 referendum, with eight out of 10 finance leaders expecting the long-term business environment to be worse as a result of the UK leaving the EU. The accoun

Sunday newspaper round-up: Brexit, Melrose, Stagecoach, Barclays, WPP

Sun 14 April 2019 16:14

(Sharecast News) - David Lidington, the cabinet minister overseeing cross-party Brexit talks with Labour, has insisted that there is now "more that unites than divides" the main parties, amid desperate attempts to find a breakthrough that avoids European

Friday newspaper round-up: Brexit, Superdry, Disney, Uber

Fri 12 April 2019 07:19

(Sharecast News) - Theresa May has dispatched shattered MPs for a 10-day Easter recess, and urged them to use the time away from Westminster to "reflect on the decisions that will have to be made swiftly on our return," after European Union leaders set 31

Thursday newspaper round-up: Starbucks, house prices, Italy, Virgin Atlantic

Thu 11 April 2019 07:44

(Sharecast News) - A £1m fund to help expand and improve paper cup recycling facilities across the UK will be launched on Thursday by the coffee giant Starbucks and environmental charity Hubbub. Local authorities, recycling companies and social enterpris

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Brexit, Bank of England, Finablr IPO

Wed 10 April 2019 07:24

(Sharecast News) - European leaders have urged President Macron not to "humiliate" Theresa May as the price of granting her a long Brexit extension. In an appeal before tonight's critical summit, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, called on E

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Brexit, retailers, LME, Sony, StanChart

Tue 09 April 2019 07:21

(Sharecast News) - Theresa May will go to Paris and Berlin to plead with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron for a Brexit extension on Tuesday, promising to be a good member of the European Union until departure day and claiming talks with Labour have a ser

Monday newspaper round-up: Business confidence, Holland & Barrett, Microsoft, BT

Mon 08 April 2019 07:20

(Sharecast News) - Business confidence has crashed to the lowest point since 2012, and the economy is only growing because firms are stockpiling ahead of Brexit, according to a key sentiment indicator. The BDO optimism index, which charts how businesses e