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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Easyjet, UK house prices, retailers

Tue 24 December 2019 07:35

(Sharecast News) - Ryanair is to appeal against a ruling in the Dublin high court over its attempts to delay the defection of its former chief operating officer to Easyjet. Mr Justice Senan Allen ruled that Ryanair's attempt to enforce a "covenant" to pre

Monday newspaper round-up: Aviva, British grocers, BBC

Mon 23 December 2019 07:22

(Sharecast News) - Activist investors are thought to be turning their attention to a potential break-up of Aviva after its chief executive refused to pursue a radical split of the business. Maurice Tulloch, 50, who became head of the FTSE 100 insurer in M

Sunday newspaper round-up: Tesco, Aviva, Boris Johnson, supermarkets, Labour leadership, Cobham

Sun 22 December 2019 11:35

(Sharecast News) - When Florence Widdicombe opened a box of Tesco charity Christmas cards to send them to her friends, the six-year-old schoolgirl from Tooting, south London, was startled to find that one of them had already been used. The card, featuring

Friday newspaper round-up: Car manufacturing, Andrew Bailey, consumer confidence

Fri 20 December 2019 07:24

(Sharecast News) - Renewed shutdowns of car plants around the previously expected Brexit date of 31 October contributed to a further decline in UK car manufacturing in November. Output slumped by 16.5% compared with the same month a year earlier, with 107

Thursday newspaper round-up: Fiat Peugeot, British Airways, AJ Bell

Thu 19 December 2019 07:33

(Sharecast News) - Britain's largest trade union is seeking assurances over about 2,600 manufacturing jobs at Vauxhall after the carmaker's parent company, PSA, announced a £38bn (€45bn) merger with Fiat Chrysler that will create the world's fourth-big

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Persimmon, Google, Shell

Wed 18 December 2019 07:39

(Sharecast News) - Persimmon, the housebuilder that paid its chief executive a £75m bonus in 2018, has been accused of shoddily building homes that left its customers exposed to an "intolerable risk" in the event of fire. An independent review of the com

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Boeing, gender equality, superyachts

Tue 17 December 2019 07:35

(Sharecast News) - Boeing is temporarily halting production of its grounded 737 Max after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said last week it would not approve the plane's return to service before 2020. The decision came after the US planemaker's

Monday newspaper round-up: Trade deal, house prices, KPMG, Capita

Mon 16 December 2019 07:25

(Sharecast News) - The "phase one" US-China trade deal will nearly double US exports to China over the next two years and is "totally done" despite the need for translation and revisions to its text, US trade representative Robert Lighthizer said on Sunda

Sunday newspaper round-up: Election, Tory Cabinet, Labour crisis, Ted Baker, M&C Saatchi, British Steel

Sun 15 December 2019 14:08

(Sharecast News) - Boris Johnson has drawn up plans to run a "revolutionary" government that will see ministers sacked, Whitehall departments abolished and civil servants replaced by external experts in a bid to "reshape" the economy. Up to a third of the

Friday newspaper round-up: Trade deal, Fifteen, RBS, Autonomy

Fri 13 December 2019 07:33

(Sharecast News) - The US and China have reportedly reached a limited deal that would pause escalating trade tensions and pave the way towards ending a bruising trade war between the world's two largest economies. The two sides have reached an agreement "