Press round-up from ShareCast
Monday newspaper round-up: London jobs, car makers, easyJet
Monday 30 November 2020 07:23
(Sharecast News) - London has suffered the biggest fall in job opportunities among Europe's biggest cities, according to a report showing that national capitals across the region have been damaged most by Covid-19. Britain's capital is also among five of
Sunday newspaper round-up: Brexit, HSBC, BT
Sunday 29 November 2020 18:52
(Sharecast News) - The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has claimed there is a "Brexit deal to be done" this week, but warned fishing rights remained an "outstanding major bone of contention" in trade talks. Mr Raab suggested it could be the "last week or s
Friday newspaper round-up: Black Friday, tech regulator, pensions, Royal Mail
Friday 27 November 2020 07:29
(Sharecast News) - Black Friday is expected to smash online sales records this year as struggling retailers slash prices in a desperate attempt to drum up trade after a lost November on the high street. The discount day has become the biggest shopping eve
Thursday newspaper round-up: Eurostar, pub chains, Bell Pottinger
Thursday 26 November 2020 07:28
(Sharecast News) - The government will launch a "levelling-up fund" for England worth £4bn to support towns and communities with regeneration projects, Rishi Sunak has said. The chancellor used his spending review statement to announce details of the new
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Debenhams, pubs, retailers
Wednesday 25 November 2020 07:30
(Sharecast News) - The government has privately admitted the UK faces an increased likelihood of "systemic economic crisis" as it completes its exit from the European Union in the middle of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. A confidential Cabinet
Tuesday newspaper round-up: No-deal Brexit, Equiti Capital, Debenhams
Tuesday 24 November 2020 07:29
(Sharecast News) - The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has warned that the economic cost of a no-deal Brexit would be bigger in the long term than the damage caused by Covid-19. Bailey said failure to agree to a deal before the Brexit tran
Monday newspaper round-up: Public sector pay freeze, dividends, Blackmore
Monday 23 November 2020 07:22
(Sharecast News) - Rishi Sunak has rejected accusations that his planned public sector pay freeze amounts to a return of austerity and insisted that spending plans to be announced on Wednesday will result in more money for health, education and the police
Sunday newspaper round-up: China, Facebook, Petropavlovsk
Sunday 22 November 2020 18:13
(Sharecast News) - Britain will lose billions of pounds of investment and thousands of jobs unless it reverses its hostility to China, an influential lobby group for Chinese businesses has warned. In the most stark public intervention yet, the China Chamb
Friday newspaper round-up: Marks & Spencer, Starling, Hinkley Point B
Friday 20 November 2020 07:28
(Sharecast News) - The fashion chains Peacocks, Jaeger, Austin Reed and Jacques Vert have collapsed into administration, putting nearly 4,800 jobs at risk. The retailers are all part of entrepreneur Philip Day's Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group (EWM), which w
Thursday newspaper round-up: Norwegian Air, pay freezes, Apple
Thursday 19 November 2020 07:30
(Sharecast News) - Low-cost airline Norwegian Air has filed for bankruptcy protection in Ireland, becoming the biggest casualty of the coronavirus pandemic in the aviation sector to date. The troubled carrier has asked an Irish court to carry out a proces