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“Consultancy Brand Finance estimates the World Cup brand is now worth $5.2bn (£4bn) – a 244 per cent increase on its value when the 2010 tournament was held in South Africa.”
“Fifa has projected revenues of $13bn from the current edition of the competition, which is its biggest ever in terms of both number of teams, 48, and geographical spread, as it is taking place across the US, Canada and Mexico.”
“Sponsorship revenue from partners including Adidas, Coca-Cola and Visa is the largest contributor to the World Cup brand, at $1.9bn.”
“That is closely followed by broadcast rights for one of sport’s truly global properties, at $1.8bn.”
“The steepest single-cycle increase in brand value came between Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, when brand value surged by 71 per cent.”
“77 per cent of financial services staff in the UK are concerned about their professional future”
“built up a substantial futures position on the ICE crude oil futures market on 6 February”
“fined the bank £1.4m”
“failed to spot a $120m (£76m) mismarking”
“By the time I bought mine for £1,300 in the late 1990s”
“As a ball-park, reckon on paying upwards of £15,000 for something usable, or more like £50,000 for a flawless 205 GTI like this car.”
“has topped the global green finance centre rankings for eight consecutive editions”
“The 2025 California wildfires are estimated to have cost insurers around $40bn”
“Blackstone is looking to offload over $2bn of stakes held in private investment funds”
“The firm is promoting a so-called collateralised fund obligation (CFO), which will bundle more than $2bn (£1.5bn) of stakes in leveraged buyout funds into bonds to sell to investors and insurers”
“leaving the buyout industry burdened with $4 trillion of unsold assets”
“Carlyle closed on a $1.2bn transaction that it said was the largest publicly rated CFO on record”
“Blackstone was forced to lift its usual five per cent redemption limit on its $82bn BCRED fund earlier this year”
“£6bn joint programme with Italy and Japan”
“HOUSE prices saw a monthly increase of 0.9 per cent in June, bringing the annual rate of decline to 9.3 per cent from 11.3 per cent in May”
“The mortgage lender said that the three month rate of change, which is a smoother indicator of the short-term price trend, turned positive for the first time since December 2007 to stand at 0.9 per cent, up from -0.4 per cent in May”
“House prices have now risen in three of the last four months”
“turned positive for the first time since December 2007”
“House prices are still overvalued, the recovery in activity appears to be wavering, unemployment is set to rise further and credit conditions remain tight”
“while this stronger trend may be extended for a few more months”
“The 54-year-old’s net worth was estimated at 982.6bn US dollars (£733bn) before the float, according to Forbes, which has swelled to more than one trillion dollars after the record-breaking initial public offering (IPO).”
“His fortune has been boosted by the sky-high valuation of his rocket and artificial intelligence (AI) firm SpaceX, in which he has a 38 per cent stake in total, worth 688 billion dollars (£514bn) at the initial IPO price, even before share…”
“It means he has eclipsed many of his tech counterparts, with the combined net worth of Forbes listed top ranking billionaires – Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison – ha…”
“But it is his “cult-like status” that has resonated with retail investors for the SpaceX float, according to XTB’s Kathleen Brooks, with the firm offering an unusually high proportion of shares in the offer to retail investors – thought to…”
“Despite a chequered tenure at the group, which ended with him being fired as chief executive, Musk made a 180 million dollar (£134 million) fortune when PayPal was later sold to eBay.”
“Revenue from LTA events was up 24 per cent in 2025 and income from commercial partners such as HSBC, Lexus and Barclays increased, as forecast, by 37 per cent”
“women’s purse was up 35 per cent to £1.4m”
“The men’s is £2.2m”
“More than £1bn has been spent before construction has even begun”
“total costs are expected to exceed £10bn.”
“Harwood Capital now owns more than eight per cent of the eponymous agency founded by advertising tycoons Maurice and Charles in 1995, according to a stock exchange filing”
“The boutique investment firm began amassing a stake in the London-headquartered M&C Saatchi in 2020, but did not surpass the five per cent threshold that forced it to declare its holding until last year.”
“The boutique investment firm began amassing a stake in the London-headquartered M&C Saatchi in 2020”
“Centaur now owns just one firm, having returned nearly £65m to shareholders through the disposals under pressure from Harwood.”
“The stripped back entity also quit the London Stock Exchange in April.”
“The Aim-listed group’s shares have shed more than a more than a quarter of their valuation over the last 12 months”
“Major shareholder Vin Murria has simultaneously taken up a position on its board having previously spearheaded a £254m hostile takeover approach for the agency.”
“The FTSE 250 firm said it made £63m from the share sale, adding that it still had a stake in the company worth more than £100m following the disposal.”
“It comes as Molten Ventures said it saw the value of its portfolio climb 13 per cent in a year to £1.5bn.”
“Molten Ventures shares soared 10.6 per cent to 595p on Tuesday morning.”
“The stock is up by around a fifth since the start of the year.”
“Revolut is reportedly eyeing a secondary share sale with a fresh valuation of $115bn (£86bn). The fintech is understood to be targeting 2028 for an IPO.”
“aim to lower forecasts that predict debt interest costs will jump to over £120bn by 2030”
“the International Monetary Fund claiming they represented a “good balance between deficit reduction and growth-friendly spending””
“which calls for capital gains taxes to be equalised with income taxes”
“Shares in the FTSE 250 retailer slumped by 16 per cent on Wednesday’s market open to 415p, leaving the stock down more than 35 per cent in the year so far.”
“The firm slashed its best-scenario forecast for profit before tax by £15m, cutting its range from between £90m and £105m to between £75m and £90m.”
“The firm’s like-for-like revenue in the last 14 weeks jumped by two per cent year on year, as sales in its airport businesses dropped by one per cent.”
“WH Smith blamed the recent downturn in its outlook for the “deterioration” of its North American arm, where like-for-like revenue dropped one per cent in the last 14 weeks, and four per cent in the last seven weeks.”
“Travel disruption is beginning to affect consumers in North America, the retailer suggested, citing a two per cent decline in like-for-like sales at its airport stores in the region.”
“The firm has kicked off the capital raise with the placing of 26m new shares, accounting to 20 per cent of its existing share capital.”
“The stock debuted at 180p, but its shares have shed a fifth of their value in the last year and dipped a further five per cent on Monday’s market open to 171p.”
“Ocado’s share price shed 17-per-cent in one day, to 179p, plummeting to a 12-year low.”
“In February, the group’s shares shed 10 per cent after it warned of “significant” job cuts and said it is on the hunt for new partners following Kroger’s departure.”
“The news came as the French carrier reported full-year losses of €578m (£507m) yesterday, down from a profit of €790m last year, in the latest blow to the ailing industry.”
“Analysts had forecast losses of around €902m.”
“The profit-sharing venture [...] pushed shares in Air France up, closing at €11.30, an 11.44 per cent lift.”
“London-based Ebury, which is majority-owned by Santander, is currently in talks with Pollen Street over a potential bid for Lumon that could value the company at north of £100m, sources said.”
“Sources said Ebury has been on a deals footing after raising around £550m from backers including Santander and Centerbridge in April, with aim of accelerating its expansion across products and markets.”
“The government would raise £1.7bn per year from this tax, the companies claimed, which they suggested it could use to offer Brits more cost of living support.”
“This is a significant reform which backs our businesses to compete and grow, controls safety and flow of goods at our border, and keeps the UK in line with our international partners.”
“Broker Investec Securities said it expects further volume gains from the new contracts, but does not anticipate much progress this year.”
“According to the Department for Business and Trade’s own analysis, the UK has had the lowest share of investment in GDP among G7 countries in 24 of the last 30 years.”
“Under the scheme, firms will reportedly receive reimbursements worth between about £819 and £1,865 per overseas hire.”
“chancellor Alistair Darling, who famously thrashed out the details of his mammoth £500bn bank bailout plan over an Indian takeaway back in October”
“shows a figure of $25bn scribbled out and replaced with $10bn”
“a retired Tortoise would be around £16,000 a year better off in retirement”
“would also have accumulated around 30 per cent more non-pension wealth by age 80 than the Hare”
“Pockit has raised £13.4m from shareholders as it seeks to plug growing losses following its acquisition of London fintech Monese. ... The firm, which offers pre-paid cards to customers without the need for a credit check, said it completed…”
“The funding round came after the fintech secured a £5m loan from a famous Spanish railway architect, as City PM revealed in March.”
“Pockit posted a £10.3m pre-tax loss for 2024, a more than quadrupling on the previous year, according to the firm’s latest accounts”
“while total turnover rose by around a half to £7.4m.”
“Monese’s own accounts, which were published last month, shows the fintech suffered a major widening of losses as its bottom line was hit by restructuring costs following its takeover by Pockit. ... The London-based firm … booked a pre-tax …”
“Fresh accounts – which were also filed well after the deadline – revealed Monese’s revenue dropped to £12.2m, down from £14.9m in the year prior.”
“Pre-tax profit was up two per cent on the previous year, rising from £330m to £346m excluding one-off items, on the back of soaring revenues, which were up 23 per cent to £1.6bn.”
“The company also raised its full year dividend by nine per cent to 17.05p a share, helping Spencer to a £23.5m windfall on his 138m shares, £2m more than he earned from last year’s dividend.”
“The company estimates that its marketplace has grown in worth by three per cent to around £8.1bn, of which ICAP occupies between 21 and 23 per cent.”
“ICAP’s stellar performance was helped by acquisitions and a £44m investment in new businesses, but Spencer hinted at further purchases, saying that the company was “well positioned to take advantage of the significant restructuring of the …”
“ICAP, alongside 11 banks, is part of a consortium putting together a bid of around &1119;839m (£738m) for the clearing house LCH.Clearnet, a move that would give it part control of the leading clearer of over-the-counter derivatives.”
“netting chief executive Michael Spencer £23.5m on his holding in the company.”
“The firm said it raked in £148.8m in revenue for the year, up 9 per cent from last year, driven by growth across the core sectors it advises, including acting for corporate clients in the retail sector.”
“The firm added that the record revenue was achieved before any contribution from Browne Jacobson Northern Ireland – formerly Davidson Donald – which the company merged with in May 2026.”
“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, according to TheCityUK’s latest UK Key Facts …”
“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.”
“TheCityUK report said the swing in the market was “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.”
“ratings agency Standard & Poor’s announced that it had downgraded its outlook on Britain’s AAA credit rating to “negative” from “stable” for the first time since October 1993.”
“Standard & Poors says that the UK has a one in three chance of an actual cut”
“the record amount of gilts (£220bn) that the Treasury needs to issue this year to fund its borrowing.”
“US dollar weakness will dominate until the autumn when they expect current green shoots to wither”
“The “mortgage mayhem” which followed February’s outbreak of war in the Middle East saw five-year mortgage rates soar above 5.5 for the first time since September 2024.”
