Press round-up from ShareCast

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Wealth tax, Paramount, UK pension funds

Tue 21 July 2026 07:18

(Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham has announced a fresh tax cut to remove VAT from domestic electricity bills from 1 October, a move that will funded from cancelling the Digital ID programme. The prime minister said in a statement: "Westminster has not been

Monday newspaper round-up: Pay gap, Thames Water, Boohoo

Mon 20 July 2026 07:09

(Sharecast News) - The bosses of Britain's largest listed companies received record pay last year, fuelling the widest earnings gap with workers in eight years. Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives hit £5.06m in the last financial year, according to

Sunday newspaper round-up: Northumbrian Water, Live Nation, Benjamin Netanyahu, digital IDs, poultry sector, Cuba

Sat 18 July 2026 23:23

(Sharecast News) - Northumbrian Water will hand chief executive Heidi Mottram a £1.5m retention payment over the next five years, a sum that sits outside Ofwat's new powers to block bonuses at companies that breach pollution rules, according to The Times

Friday newspaper round-up: IMF warning, AI threat, Vodafone

Fri 17 July 2026 07:29

(Sharecast News) - Britain cannot afford a fresh spending binge, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Andy Burnham. The Washington-based body said the UK Government should be "very selective in accommodating new demands" for spending and inste

Thursday newspaper round-up: SpaceX, Stonegate, Utmost

Thu 16 July 2026 07:16

(Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham must avoid another "summer of speculation" on tax and spend that would spook British business, the chief executive of the CBI has warned. As Burnham prepares to take up the Labour leadership on Friday, with a new cabinet to

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Heating oil customers, benefit claimants, SoftBank chief

Wed 15 July 2026 07:23

(Sharecast News) - Heating oil customers whose deliveries were cancelled when the war in the Middle East caused a price surge are to receive compensation of up to £350 each following an investigation by the UK competition watchdog. As the crisis unfolded

Tuesday newspaper round-up: North Sea oil, Anthropic, EV owners

Tue 14 July 2026 07:13

(Sharecast News) - The US government has already paid back tens of billions of dollars in tariffs it collected before the supreme court ruled them illegal, according to budget figures released on Monday. Tariffs - taxes on imported goods - have been a key

Monday newspaper round-up: Pub sector, Eurostar, war bonds

Mon 13 July 2026 07:13

(Sharecast News) - The beleaguered pub sector is getting a boost from England's World Cup run, with some landlords reporting roaring sales as anticipation builds for a bumper night on Wednesday for the semi-final clash with Argentina. Lisa Mayall, the man