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GPE bolsters West End estate with £18m purchase
1st Sep 2025 07:15
(Sharecast News) - Real estate group Great Portland Estates has bolstered its portfolio of fully managed buildings within the West End with the £18m acquisition of The Gable, WC1 from the City of London Corporation.
Read moreDomino's Pizza Group to buy back shares after recent sell-off
1st Sep 2025 07:15
(Sharecast News) - Domino's Pizza Group has announced a £20m share buyback as it makes the most of a big plunge in its share price over recent weeks.
Read moreUK private sector downturn set to continue, CBI survey shows
1st Sep 2025 07:14
(Sharecast News) - Private sector firms across all major sectors in the UK expect economic activity to weaken in the coming quarter, according to the Confederation of British Industry's latest Growth Indicator.
Read moreHouse price growth slows in August - Nationwide
1st Sep 2025 07:13
(Sharecast News) - Annual house price growth slowed in August as affordability remained stretched, according to a survey released by Nationwide on Monday.
Read moreIntertek acquires Australian environment testing provider Envirolab
1st Sep 2025 07:11
(Sharecast News) - Quality assurance provider Intertek has acquired Australian environmental testing and analysis provider Envirolab for an undisclosed sum, exposing it to the "fast growth and attractive" Asia-Pacific environmental testing market.
Read moreSunday newspaper round-up: 30-year bond yields, France, BAE Systems
31st Aug 2025 20:03
(Sharecast News) - Thirty-year bond yields have notched multiple new record highs thus far in 2025 - for all the wrong reasons. That on the 30-year bond had stayed at around 5.6%, near a three-decade high. That is also the highest yield among G7 countries. Should a country's rate of economic growth not be set to exceed the average rate on its debt, then it is in trouble, as that is taken as a sign of future default. France's prime minister seems to be facing the impossible task of cutting spending and raising taxes to lower its deficit. In Britain, there is talk of a fiscal hole of as much as £40bn. The US deficit meanwhile could jump by over $2trn over the next 10 years as a result of President Trump's tax cuts. - The Sunday Times
Read moreUS close: Stocks lower following July CPI reading
29th Aug 2025 23:27
(Sharecast News) - Major indices traded lower on Friday as market participants digested news that inflation had ticked higher in July.
Read moreLondon close: Stocks fall on bank tax concerns, US inflation
29th Aug 2025 17:42
(Sharecast News) - London stocks ended lower on Friday as banking shares slumped after a think tank suggested a potential windfall tax on the sector, while investors assessed the latest US inflation data.
Read moreEurope close: Markets in the red on inflation concerns
29th Aug 2025 16:13
(Sharecast News) - European stocks fell across the board on Friday, closing out the week at their lowest level in 13 trading days, as an acceleration in inflation at home and abroad dampened sentiment.
Read moreUS trade deficit widens as imports jump before tariff deadline
29th Aug 2025 15:29
(Sharecast News) - America's trade deficit widened much more than expected in July to its highest in four months, as purchasing managers shipped products into the country to get ahead of the tariff deadline.
Read moreBroker tips: Chesnara, Rolls Royce
29th Aug 2025 14:55
(Sharecast News) - Analysts at Berenberg nudged up their target price on UK life and pension consolidator Chesnara from 328p to 333p on Friday following the group's first-half earnings a day earlier.
Read moreWood Group agrees £216m takeover by Dubai's Sidara
29th Aug 2025 14:42
(Sharecast News) - Wood Group said on Friday that it has agreed to be taken over by Sidara in a £216m deal that will see the Dubai-based engineering and consulting firm provide a cash injection of $450m.
Read moreDirector dealings: Convatec interim CEO snaps up shares
29th Aug 2025 14:41
(Sharecast News) - Convatec revealed on Friday that interim chief executive Jonny Mason had acquired 50,000 ordinary shares in the FTSE 100-listed medical products firm.
Read moreWeek ahead: US non-farm payrolls, Global PMIs in focus
29th Aug 2025 14:29
(Sharecast News) - Investors' focus over the coming week was expected to be on the official monthly US jobs tally.
Read moreUS incomes jump in July, prices slightly mixed
29th Aug 2025 14:18
(Sharecast News) - Americans' incomes and spending grew briskly in July, while price pressures picked up a tad.
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