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“Oil prices rose 2% to more than $90 a barrel on Monday.”
“RHJ is reported to require only €3.8bn in state aid as part of a deal for a majority stake in Opel, against an expected request of €4.5bn from Magna.”
“Earlier in the summer Magna offered to pay €700m (£610m) for a 55 per cent slice of GM Europe and has handed over €300m of emergency funding to keep the group afloat.”
“He also confirmed that the government was set to cut capital budgets by one per cent to fund an uplift in defence spending”
“Compass 2026, a credit-only survey of 380+ professionals across global private credit markets.”
“Compass 2026 finds that private credit remains firmly positioned for growth, with 83% of respondents expecting assets under management (AUM) to increase over the next 12 to 18 months”
“Today, Oxane Panorama is running $1.4 trillion in aggregate client AUM globally.”
“Compass 2026 builds on Oxane’s Private Credit+ thesis, launched last year, which identified a $45 trillion opportunity across the expanding Private Credit+ ecosystem.”
“Oxane has offices in London, New York, Gurgaon, and Hyderabad, and is running over $1.4 trillion of aggregate client AUM across 100+ clients.”
“The study was conducted online between mid-March and mid-May.”
“as net debt slipped by 0.3 per cent to £4.9bn”
“Its shares jump 2.8 per cent on Thursday’s market open, to 994p”
“This came as revenue slipped 5.6 per cent to £887m, with the Bank of England’s declining base rate cited as the primary headwind. Rates dropped by an average 91 basis points over the year, which led to interest income falling £52.5m to £75…”
“This came as revenue slipped 5.6 per cent to £887m, with the Bank of England’s declining base rate cited as the primary headwind.”
“Rates dropped by an average 91 basis points over the year, which led to interest income falling £52.5m to £759.2m.”
“has raised £13.4m from shareholders”
“secured a £5m loan”
“posted a £10.3m pre-tax loss for 2024”
“total turnover rose by around a half to £7.4m”
“booked a pre-tax loss of £15.9m in the 2024 financial year”
“revenue dropped to £12.2m, down from £14.9m in the year prior”
“Under the changes proposed by Haigh and Streeting, capital gains tax would be levied at 45 per cent – the same as the top rate of income tax – as opposed to its current rate of 24 per cent for top-rate taxpayers. Doing so would make Britai…”
“Proponents of the move argue it could net an additional £14bn for the Exchequer.”
“In her maiden budget, Rachel Reeves hiked the top rate of capital gains tax from 21 per cent to 24 per cent, in a move the Chancellor said kept the UK with the lowest “rate of any European G7 economy”.”
“The market has now seen 29 proposed takeovers of UK companies worth more than £100m according to Peel Hunt, while IPO activity remains subdued. There were only seven listings in the first half of the year, raising £577.2m.”
“THE world’s leading inter-dealer broker ICAP enjoyed record profits in 2008, it said yesterday, netting chief executive Michael Spencer £23.5m on his holding in the company.”
“ICAP’s stellar performance was helped by acquisitions and a £44m investment in new businesses, but Spencer hinted at further purchases...”
“ICAP, alongside 11 banks, is part of a consortium putting together a bid of around &1119;839m (£738m) for the clearing house LCH.Clearnet...”
“including a $2bn (£1.73bn) investment by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) over the next five years”
“While the capital has minted 12 new unicorns and drawn $12bn in tech investment this year alone”
“the industry provided a £290bn boost to the UK’s real GDP – a macroeconomic measure that adjusts the value of economic output for inflation – in 2025 marking around 11 per cent of total output”
“Productivity across the sector – which also includes related professional services industries such as accounting – was 2.6 times higher than that of the whole economy by measure of total values of goods and services produced per hour”
“Of the £582bn in outstanding amount of loans from UK banks to business as of February 2026, around a third of this was lent to small- and medium-sized enterprises”
“Mortgage lending staged a mammoth recovery, surging 20.4 per cent year-on-year in 2025 to £296.2bn”
“high interest rates that peaked at 5.25 per cent – a post-financial crisis high – in 2024 but were gradually whittled down to 3.75 per cent by the end of 2025”
“supported by the Bank of England’s decision in August 2024 to cut interest rates for the first time since 2021”
“the shift pushed the total amount spent on these retirement products to a post-2014 high of £7.4bn in 2025”
“The UK’s private credit market – which provides non-bank debt financing directly to companies – grew at a staggering 43 per cent between 2013 and 2024”
“Financial services sector contributed over a tenth of the UK’s economic output in the last year”
“downgraded its outlook on Britain’s AAA credit rating to “negative” from “stable” for the first time since October 1993.”
“The yield on UK 10-year gilts, which moves inversely to the price of the bond, rose by as much as 14 basis points immediately following the announcement”
“However, while the yield on British 10-year gilt yield rose as high as 3.72 percent in response to the S&P announcement, it failed to break through the support level of 3.73 percent, and later eased back to 3.63 percent.”
“If yields rise further and break through 3.77 per cent – a level formed in February – then this would trigger a double bottom in the price – a key technical signal for traders to sell gilts, targeting a yield of 4.53 per cent.”
“the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme will meet some of the demand for the record amount of gilts (£220bn) that the Treasury needs to issue this year to fund its borrowing.”
“As 40 per cent of the demand for UK gilts was generated via foreign accounts, the bearish sterling impact will be significant.”
“The float, which raised a whopping $75bn (£56bn)”
“included millions of shares allocated to UK retail investors thought to be worth around £271m”
“Fine said the listing had “focused a lot of attention on equity markets,””
“investment banking arm cheered a more than doubling in turnover”
“turned around its loss from last year to deliver a pre‑tax profit of £21.1m”
“issued a final dividend of 4.9p”
“said it counted 62 members of the FTSE 350 as clients”
“average market cap across its client base jumping by more than 30 per cent to £1.1bn”
“Peel Hunt shares rose 3.1 per cent to 99.5p”
“The stock is up by 13.1 per cent over the past twelve months”
“Sycamore, which acquired Walgreens Boots Alliance for $23.7bn last year, has reportedly been in talks with the Canadian branch of the Weston family...”
“Australian-listed Sigma Healthcare, which is valued at £18bn and is further international expansion.”
“The London float could have valued Boots at around £7bn...”
“Shares in Currys sank by 11 per cent after Baldock’s departure from the tech retailer was announced in March...”
“A substantial increase in liquidity and the reduction in net debt provide further resilience in what remains a fragile environment.”
“It is now roughly equivalent to 35 per cent of the total value of its assets, compared to 103 per cent in March.”
“The yield on ten-year gilts – the primary benchmark for how much it costs the government to borrow – stormed 11 basis points higher to 4.96 per cent after the US launched a “series of powerful strikes” on Iran”
“the bank expects not to renew its contracts with KPMG”
“low growth for the best part of 16 to 17 years”
“over 150 global banks”
“UK’s borrowing costs have sailed past five per cent for only the third time since the onset of the Iran war”
“The yield on the UK’s 10-year government bond … climbed by as much as seven basis points on Tuesday morning”
“Brent crude to jump more than nine per cent in a single session on Monday – its biggest daily gain since May 2020”
“10-year US Treasury yield climbing more more than five basis points over Monday”
“yield above the two-year gilt climbed 10 basis points to trade above 4.5 per cent for the first time since mid-May”
“10-year bond yield falling by more than half a percentage point from its peak in May”
“markets implying a 40 per cent chance that the rate-setting Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee will opt to hike when they meet this month”
“Barclays’ original lease was set to expire in 2039 but it said the fresh acquisition will pave the way for ongoing investment in its workplace and enable a flexible space for colleagues as “working patterns and business needs continue to e…”
“The enterprise zone is expected to unlock between £1bn and £1.6bn in long-term local returns over the 25 year period, according to Tower Hamlet’s calculations.”
“Meanwhile Pamplona’s move to capitalise on yesterday’s Chaucer announcement by upping its stake in the insurer was led by Stephen Howard at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.”
“It found the state pension had annually outpaced average earnings growth by 0.5 percentage points and consumer price inflation by 1.2 percentage points since its implementation in 2012.”
“The OECD warned the Makerfield MP is set to inherit an economy where government debt is projected to breach 105.4 per cent of GDP by 2027. This is to balloon to 200 per cent by 2050 in the “absence of policy changes and considering ageing …”
“Growth was forecast to languish at 0.9 per cent this year. Economists pointed to strains from global energy inflation and fiscal consolidation from frozen tax thresholds. The think tank said it would nudge up to 1.1 per cent in 2027, suppo…”
““Under the triple lock, state pensions have risen significantly faster than earnings, adding fiscal pressures and uncertainty, particularly during periods of macroeconomic volatility or weak growth,” the OECD’s latest UK economic survey re…”
“Total public expenditure of the state pension and other pensioner benefits reached around six per cent as of 2025.”
“The latest call to reform the triple lock follows the Office for Budget Responsibility warning UK public debt would swell three times the size of the economy. The state pension was named as one of the biggest drivers after expenditure was …”
“Stock in the Truth Social parent has plunged 75 percent since Trump took office last year”
“capital gains tax ‘should be brought closer’ to income tax”
“families should pay a new ‘death tax’ on family members’ estates”
“the current inheritance tax system raises ‘questions of intergenerational fairness’”
“It’s going to be devastating for the UK economy”
“Kingman said the government would have to hold the stakes – which equate to a £3,000 investment from every UK household – for “several years” to ensure the best return for the taxpayer.”
“retailers having piled nearly £5.5bn into a crack down on crime in the last five years”
“The Tax Justice UK proposal he echoes claims £24bn a year from roughly 20,000 people, assuming most of them stay put and can be valued accurately.”
“Dan Neidle’s analysis of that same proposal found 80 per cent of the projected yield comes from about 5,000 individuals, and 15 per cent from just 10.”
“Even the proposal’s own low-response scenario implies £200bn of capital leaving the country.”
“Britain borrowed £129bn last year. The state is spending close to 45 per cent of national income, and debt interest alone is running at about £110bn, around 1.8 times the £62.2bn defence budget.”
“they said since the start of 2008 year three of Carlyle’s buyout portfolio companies filed for bankruptcy protection – German car parts maker Edscha, oil and gas logistics firm SemGroup and Hawaiian Telecom”
“This latest development will support managed hosting and ultra-low latency Layer 1 exchange connectivity to BME Exchange.”
“Waypoint will also offer Layer 3 services in MD6.”
“THE UK’s economy is set to lose between £900m and £1.1bn every year the third runway at Heathrow is delayed”
“could be worth up to £30bn to the entire country over 60 years”
“For every year that hub capacity expansion fails to happen, the economy loses £900m-£1.1bn”
“If a Thames Estuary hub took 20 years longer than Heathrow expansion, the economy would lose between £8.9bn – £10.9bn”
“Expansion at Heathrow would mean economic benefits of £8.6bn-£12.8bn directly, plus £20bn in wider benefits”
