The UK stock market has long been shunned by retail investors, as the AI boom, inflation woes and gloomy economic conditions spark the search for greater returns in overseas markets, …
Financial Planning
UK and US agree to zero tariff deal on pharmaceuticals
The government has agreed to a major deal with Washington that will see the UK become the only country to secure zero import tariffs on pharmaceutical products into the US …
Banks gear up for boost with loosening of capital rules
UK banks are gearing up to supercharge the government’s growth agenda with reforms to lenders’ capital requirements set to unlock billions of free cash. The Bank of England is set …
Windfall taxes: Major North Sea jobs cuts revealed by oil and gas giant
Around 100 offshore jobs are set to be cut by oil and gas firm Harbour Energy amid pressure from UK windfall taxes. The company, which is the UK’s largest oil …
Sheffield Wednesday: Chansiri gets three-year ban as tuna tycoon canned
Sheffield Wednesday’s former owner Dejphon Chansiri has been banned from football for three years for his role in the club’s ongoing financial crisis. Wednesday, one of England’s most historic clubs, …
OBR’s fiscal report has been leaked at least twice
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has revealed that the leak of its fiscal report before the Budget was due to “technical errors” made by staff, with the same error …
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is pushing Nick, 30, to breaking point
Despite his above average income, Nick, 30, is living a below average life. And it’s only set to worsen thanks to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget, writes Oliver Dean The Chancellor’s …
Zipcar UK to shut operations ahead of new London EV Congestion Charge
Zipcar has reached the end of the road in the UK after its US owner pulled the plug on operations in the run up to the introduction of fresh London …
Reeves isn’t ‘underestimated’, she’s doing a bad job and should resign
Rachel Reeves has no mandate for taking money from taxpayers to hand to benefits claimants and her self-pitying defences are an insult to the people who are paying for her …
Tulip Siddiq rejects ‘kangaroo court’ conviction
Former City minister Tulip Siddiq has complained of living in a “Kafkaesque nightmare” after she was handed a two-year jail sentence in a Bangladeshi trial she branded a “kangaroo court”. …