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Monday newspaper round-up: Water companies, Sky, Microsoft

Mon 21 October 2024 07:27

(Sharecast News) - Almost half of the UK workforce lack access to workplace health support including winter flu vaccinations and checks for cardiovascular diseases, a report has found. The analysis, by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), looked at

Sunday newspaper round-up: Bond investors, Reckitt Benckiser, Tate&Lyle

Sun 20 October 2024 11:33

(Sharecast News) - Government bond investors are signalling to the Chancellor that her plans for an additional £80bn of debt will not trigger and Liz-Truss style panic. But that will only hold true if she first establishes clear annual expenditure plans

Friday newspaper round-up: Post Office, bankers' bonuses, new job ads

Fri 18 October 2024 07:24

(Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is taking action to ensure her budget plan for a multibillion-pound increase in government borrowing to fund infrastructure projects avoids a Liz Truss-style meltdown in financial markets. Ahead of her tax

Thursday newspaper round-up: Tesco, Post Office, Amazon, Stellantis

Thu 17 October 2024 07:28

(Sharecast News) - Tesco has struck a deal to buy enough solar power to run 144 of its large supermarkets, buying almost two-thirds of the entire electricity output from the Cleve Hill solar park in Kent. The £450m solar park is being built on farmland

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Water firms, Labour tax raid, Boeing, BMW

Wed 16 October 2024 07:19

(Sharecast News) - The future ownership of the water industry should be decided by a citizens' assembly to remove decision-making from boardrooms and impose democracy on the sector, a private member's bill is to argue. Labour MP Clive Lewis, who in the pa

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Energy crisis, Porterbrook, Google

Tue 15 October 2024 07:13

(Sharecast News) - Britain is at risk of experiencing a repeat of the sharp increase in energy costs which has fuelled the continuing cost of living crisis because it relies too heavily on gas, according to an expert panel of industry leaders. The Energy

Monday newspaper round-up: Harland & Wolff, Post Office, top rate taxpayers

Mon 14 October 2024 07:27

(Sharecast News) - Spanish shipbuilding firm Navantia is in exclusive negotiations to buy Harland & Wolff, the owner of the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, in a deal that could rescue up to 1,000 jobs. It is understood the group could take contro

Sunday newspaper round-up: BP, Smith&Nephew, TalkTalk

Sun 13 October 2024 12:34

(Sharecast News) - Activist investor Bluebell has asked for BP chairman Helge Lund's head due to the oil giant's "embarrassing" share price performance. Whilst Shell or American rivals Chevron and ExxonMobil had doubled down on profitable fossil fuels, BP

Friday newspaper round-up: Scottish Power, TGI Fridays, green energy firms

Fri 11 October 2024 07:31

(Sharecast News) - The leaders of the world's biggest green energy companies have promised more than £24bn of new private investment across Great Britain ahead of a meeting with the prime minister on Friday. Keir Starmer is expected to meet the green ene

Thursday newspaper round-up: Workers' rights, UK productivity, downsizers

Thu 10 October 2024 07:26

(Sharecast News) - Rogue employers will be targeted by a beefed-up new enforcement agency to protect sweeping changes to rights at work for millions of Britons, set to be outlined in a "watershed" bill published on Friday. The Fair Work Agency will be cre