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“Last year Britain attracted more venture capital than France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland combined”
“Already this year, almost half of all VC funding in Europe has been invested right here in Britain.”
“supported by a £150m commitment from the British Business Bank.”
“The Kospi powered up 75.6 per cent in 2025, hitting 4,214.1 points”
“Analysts have credited the rise to the performance of index heavyweights Samsung and SK Hynix, which accounted for 58 per cent of total market cap as of 30 April, according to MSCI.”
“while Samsung suffered a 10.2 per cent fall to 293,000 KRW”
“The currency has hit its lowest level against the dollar since March 2009”
“The rally has essentially been driven by Samsung and SK Hynix, which together make up around 50 per cent of the index.”
“Meanwhile, both have seen their valuations surge past $1 trillion (£742bn)”
“while the family behind the tech giant also paid off its 12 trillion KRW inheritance tax bill”
“Questions over interest rates have also arisen, with economists expecting the Bank of Korea to raise rates by 25 basis points in July.”
“caused by the Nasdaq tumbling 4.2 per cent on Friday.”
“The plunge was deemed severe enough by the Korea Exchange to trigger a 20 minute trading halt”
“had cost the United States $37.5 billion, up from nearly $29 billion in mid-May”
“Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, briefly topped $95 a barrel for the first time in nearly six weeks on Wednesday”
“Big Yellow Group said yesterday it successfully completed a £32.9m share placing to exploit low property market prices and fund the development of several new sites.”
“The group said it placed 11.5m new shares at 285p, a 5.6 per cent premium to Friday’s closing share price...”
“David Ross, the flamboyant former chairman, will contribute around £250,000 towards the equity raising.”
“Ross, who holds a 9.92 per cent stake in the firm...”
“Ross, who holds a 9.92 per cent stake in the firm, chairman Nicholas Vetch and other directors of the company are believed to be investing a total of £680,000 in the placing.”
“Big Yellow, which has 54 stores, yesterday reported it had swung to a pre-tax loss of £71.5m for the year to 31 March...”
“...against a profit of £102.6m a year ago.”
“the UK’s deficit wouldn’t start to drop until its economy started to grow.”
“The FTSE 250 firm saw revenue jump by eight per cent to £5.3bn in the year to the end of April, as pre-tax profit grew by 39 per cent to £528m.”
“The group had been building up stakes in these companies ahead of its bids. These positions added £50m to adjusted profit in the last year, Frasers said.”
“Frasers shares slipped by three per cent to 737p on Thursday’s market open, though the stock remained up 10 per cent in the year to date.”
“consensus forecast of a 1.8 per cent rise in prices year-on-year”
“to trough in the third quarter of 2009”
“is in negative territory”
“the low is likely to be about one per cent year-on-year”
“expected to fall below the Bank of England’s two per cent target for the first time since September 2007”
“last week held off from extending its programme of quantitative easing (QE)”
“The August Inflation Report will probably forecast that stable 0.5 per cent rates and £125bn QE will leave inflation slightly above target two years ahead”
“We now have two million fewer companies and 60 million fewer inhabitants.”
“He also promised £350 million a week in savings for the National Health Service…Another lie.”
“delivered estimated operational savings of 10–15%”
“The FTSE 100 real estate firm rejected Prologis’ latest bid last week, which amounted to £9.93 per share and valued the group’s total shares at £13.5bn.”
“Prologis said its latest offer proposed to exchange 0.0890 of its own shares for each Segro share along with £2.7bn in cash.”
“This bid comprised a 9.7 per cent premium on Segro’s share price, it said.”
“Shareholders in the FTSE 100 firm would be 36.5 per cent better off now if Segro had taken this offer, Prologis claimed.”
“Segro shares slid two per cent on Monday’s market open to 879p.”
“Analysts at investment firm Stifel said it expected the two parties could agree on a 1,110p per share offer.”
“But there was a divergence across different regions, with the strongest gains concentrated in East and South Asia, with Indian retail investment climbing 17 per cent, with analysts pinning the interest to struggling equity markets in Asia.”
“Gold continued to rally at the start 2026, remaining in demand particularly among retail investors who are yet to have exposure to the asset, with prices hitting a fresh all time high of $5,595 in late January.”
“Central bank’s pivot away from the dollar also buoyed the price, as despite being roughly one fifth lower than the prior three years, they “were still significantly higher than historical norms”.”
“In the past two weeks alone Easyjet has opened the door to an approach from American private equity firm Castlelake, Ramsdens agreed to a takeover by US rival Firstcash and FTSE 100 Segro rejected a £12.6bn approach from Californian real e…”
“The value of agreed takeovers of London-listed firms this year now sits at $34.8bn, according to data from LSEG, nearly double that of the take-privates across the entirety of last year.”
“Of 29 bids announced so far this year, the offer price has come in at an average premium of 36 per cent, according to Peel Hunt.”
“Some of the biggest deals of the year have come in well above that – Intertek and Beazley were picked off at a roughly 60 per cent premium.”
“There are tentative signs the tide may be turning – UK equity funds saw their first net inflows since November 2024 in May, according to data from Calastone”
“The board of ITV, which is listed on the FTSE 250, said it expects to return about £950m to shareholders following the completion of the deal.”
“The index – which is mainly driven by top constituents HSBC, Lloyds, Natwest, Barclays and Standard Chartered – is up eight per cent for the year following on from a whopping 60 per cent gain last year, as FTSE 100 banks enjoyed a blisteri…”
“Lloyds is sitting at a gain of around four per cent for the year-to-date after recovering some losses made from Iran war-fuelled sell-off.”
“Barclays is broadly flat for the year, whilst Natwest is down five per cent.”
“Lending to small and medium-sized businesses rose 16 per cent year-on-year to £5.3bn in the first quarter of 2026, according to UK Finance.”
“Lloyds said it expects net interest income to now be north of its previous estimate of £14.9bn, as it pencilled in the first interest rate cut for 2027.”
“A study from banking industry body UK Finance and PwC revealed last year London lender’s total tax rate rose 0.6 per cent to 46.4 per cent in 2025. This dwarfed that of overseas rivals, with New York remaining unchanged at 27.9 per cent – …”
“JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon – one of the world’s most bankers – revealed plans for a £3bn square feet tower in Canary Wharf last year, which is projected to inject as much as £10bn over the next six years into the local economy.”
“Under Gordon Brown in 2009, Labour introduced a one-off 50 per cent levy on discretionary bonuses over £25,000. It raised £3.4bn before expiring in April 2010 and was not renewed under the coalition government.”
“The Mahmood-backed bill proposed a similar 50 per cent rate, whilst banks would also pay a 50 per cent tax on the same bonuses. Critics at the time warned that coupled with the long list of levies on the sector, the effective tax rate on b…”
“The bonus pot across the finance and insurance industry swelled to £25bn in the last financial year, prompting a slew of fresh calls for a tax on the sector – including from the Trade Union Congress (TUC).”
“Banker bonuses have rocketed in the last year after the Conservative government ditched a cap that restricted the payout to be up to 100 per cent of a fixed salary or 200 per cent in the event of shareholder approval. The move to scrap the…”
“He also suggested that banks would need to undergo a "radical simplification" of how they are structured in order to temper the risk they could pose to the economy. "Banks can’t live in a world where the upside goes to shareholders and boa…”
“Middle East tensions are once again driving up global oil prices, with Brent crude climbing above $100 a barrel for the first time since May.”
“SHARES in soft-drink maker Britvic yesterday fell by 5.3 per cent to 275p after it emerged its biggest shareholder Permira had dumped its 14 per cent stake in the company.”
“Broker UBS placed the 30.2m shares at 265.5p yesterday – a discount to Tuesday’s closing price – netting Permira around £81.5m.”
“The European buyout house bought an initial three per cent stake in the maker of Robinsons juices in December 2006 at 268p per share, before expanding this to 14 per cent.”
“However, the discounted price has left Permira nursing a loss on its investment, excluding dividends, of £755,000.”
“Last week, Britvic reported pre-tax profits in the half year to 12 April rose by 16.3 per cent from the same period a year ago to £20m.”
“The Cricketer reported the ICC suspended funding with immediate effect on June 16.”
“France Cricket was due $560,000 in ICC development funding for 2026-2027.”
“The Office for National Statistics said inflation in the year to May was lower than economists expected with the consumer prices index (CPI) showing a reading of 2.8 per cent.”
“while services inflation, closely monitored by Bank of England rate-setters for evidence of wage pressures, jumped from 3.2 per cent to 3.7 per cent.”
“Anglo said Xstrata’s £40bn plus merger proposal was “unattractive””
“as it has already raised £4.1bn through a rights issue”
“a report from Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta – two former Italian Prime Ministers who have become leading voices for economic reform in the EU – estimated the 27-state bloc faces a minimum annual investment gap of €750bn to €800bn to meet i…”
“the report said, adding that the UK’s capital markets were twice as deep as the EU’s.”
“Reeves had said that, since the economy grew by 0.6 per cent in the first quarter of the year, it could grow by 2.4 per cent over the course of the year (0.6 multiplied by four).”
“BlueCrest – which is now liable for a £200m income tax and national insurance bill – warning that the UK is “no longer a contender” in the hyper competitive world of global finance.”
“Another City grandee who fell foul of the court in a similar recent ruling is XTX Markets chief Alexander Gerko – already one of the biggest taxpayers in the land, who was presented with a £22.5m tax bill after the courts found against his…”
“BALDERTON Capital, the venture capital firm which had a 20 per cent stake in failed sports broadcaster Setanta, is about to close the biggest venture fund raised in the UK in the last 12 months.”
“Markets reacted positively to the news of Mahmood’s reported appointment. The pound rallied to its its highest level in over a year and gilts outperformed their eurozone competitors.”
“In 2014, she called for a 50p income tax rate on top earners and spoke several times on tax evasion.”
“A year later, she backed a motion that called for a tax on banker bonuses to fund a guaranteed, paid starter job for young people who had been out of work for over a year.”
“Critics at the time warned that coupled with the long list of levies on the sector, the effective tax rate on banks could reach 115 per cent.”
“A spokesman for the UK Shareholders’ Association (UKSA) said it is “strongly urging” voters to reject Lloyds’ directors’ pay package at its shareholder meeting on 5 June.”
“He added that while there are some “token gestures” in the bank’s latest pay plans, “the proportion of bonuses in total remuneration is still much too high”.”
“it emerged on Tuesday that its Europe, Asia and US chief executive John Pluthero is to get an £8.3m bonus.”
“Cable & Wireless faces similar calls for shareholders to reject its pay plans at its meeting on 17 July”
“Alan Brett, head of research at proxy vote provider Manifest, which advises FTSE 100 investors on how to vote at shareholder meetings, said pay dissent has nearly doubled to 15 per cent this year compared to 2008.”
“The previous year’s increase was only a per cent or so.”
“The row comes after Tuesday’s fierce shareholder opposition to rising pay, with shareholders of Shell and Next issuing protest votes.”
“as it failed to win enough support for a $27.2bn (£17bn) debt-for-equity deal with its bondholders.”
“GM’s attempts to restructure will fail, forcing it to file for chapter 11. GM had been given until 1 June to cut its debts, which include $20bn owed to the United Auto Workers (UAW) union healthcare fund as well as the $27.2bn owed to bond…”
“Shares in Ryanair slipped 5.7 per cent on Euronext Dublin to €24 on Monday, and 5.7 per cent on the Nasdaq to $63.”
“M&S shares were flat on Tuesday at 382p and have gained 16 per cent in the year to date.”
“Gross domestic product fell 1.8 per cent on a quarterly basis”
“and 2.9 per cent on a year-to-year basis.”
“ACE said some members have been offered just 65 cents on unpaid fees by the emirate developer, Nakheel.”
“Builders and engineers responsible for the luxury developments that turned Dubai into a desert boom town have called on the British government to help them recover hundreds of millions of pounds in unpaid debts.”
