Press round-up from ShareCast

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, unemployment, business rates

Tue 02 June 2026 07:20

(Sharecast News) - More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline - the UK's green economy is powering ahead, according to research by the country's leading business organisation. The net zero economy,

Monday newspaper round-up: Arm CEO, Meta, Jes Staley

Mon 01 June 2026 07:07

(Sharecast News) - The UK's financial watchdog is being urged to prove its relationship with the US tech company Palantir will not provide the Trump administration with backdoor access to troves of sensitive citizen and commercial data. A US law that can

Sunday newspaper round-up: Easyjet, dark trading, Tempest fighter jet, Keir Starmer, Premier Group Recruitment, Lebanon

Sun 31 May 2026 08:16

(Sharecast News) - Easyjet could become the latest company to exit London's struggling stock market after US investment fund Castlelake said it was considering a takeover approach, according to The Times. The disclosure triggered a formal "put up or shut

Friday newspaper round-up: Nationwide, Anthropic, Marks & Spencer

Fri 29 May 2026 07:20

(Sharecast News) - Labour is poised for a fresh attempt at changing the welfare system after a major government-backed report said youth unemployment was costing Britain more than £125bn a year. As official figures revealed the number of young people not

Thursday newspaper round-up: Food crisis, Universal Music, Samsung

Thu 28 May 2026 07:13

(Sharecast News) - Britain is "sleepwalking into a food crisis" caused by extreme weather, inflation and the impacts of the Iran war - and the government is failing to take the threat seriously, food experts have said. Farmers are facing severe strain fro

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Energy price cap, Post Office Horizon, Radley

Wed 27 May 2026 07:16

(Sharecast News) - Households will face the steepest summer rise in energy charges in four years after months of soaring market prices caused the government's energy price cap for Great Britain to climb by 13%. Under the cap the average gas and electricit

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Meta, British businesses, Eurowag

Tue 26 May 2026 07:18

(Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has instructed cabinet colleagues to award government contracts in four critical industries directly to British companies, making clear her irritation that ministers have been sending too much government business abroad. I

Sunday newspaper round-up: Food prices, Modella Capital, Iran peace deal, Nigel Farage, White House shooting, Rachel Reeves, EU

Sun 24 May 2026 07:57

(Sharecast News) - Food prices were expected to climb after ministers decided not to scrap the £2bn Extended Producer Responsibility packaging levy, The Times reported. Defra officials told industry leaders the scheme, which charges producers and online

Friday newspaper round-up: Cancelled govt projects, oil and gas tax raid, recession risk

Fri 22 May 2026 07:14

(Sharecast News) - Cancelled government projects such as the Rwanda deportation scheme and the road tunnel under Stonehenge are wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money a year, parliament's spending watchdog has found. About £6.6bn was written off by

Thursday newspaper round-up: Jeff Bezos, JLR, OpenAI

Thu 21 May 2026 07:15

(Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves is to promise free summer bus rides for children and cut tariffs on some food imports, as part of a package of measures aimed at easing the costs of the Iran conflict. The chancellor will give a statement in the House of C