‘Ominous’: UK manufacturing declines amid tax and trade fears March 17, 2025 UK manufacturing output fell during the first quarter of the year for the first time in a decade, as fears over a global trade war and rising taxes hit firms. Output fell one per cent in the first three months of 2025 after a 20 per cent rise in the quarter before, with UK orders [...]
Quarter of young workers considering quitting the workforce March 17, 2025 A quarter of British 18-24 year olds have considered leaving the workforce in the last year in a sign of the increasing impact of economic inactivity spreading across the UK. Among all UK workers, 10 per cent are currently actively considering leaving work for an extended period, with a further 20 per cent having considered [...]
Reeves ramps up pressure on regulators in plan to slash red tape March 17, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves has summoned regulators to Downing Street today as part of the government’s plan to slash red tape. At the meeting, Reeves will announce further detail on how the government will be cutting regulations, while setting out plans to slim down or abolish regulators. “Today we are taking further action to free businesses [...]
MHA to target retail investors in £350m London Stock Exchange IPO March 16, 2025 Accountancy firm MHA is set to launch an IPO on London's junior stock market AIM, with a plan to bring in £6m from retail investors.
Bank of England warns ‘age of uncertainty’ stopping rapid rate cuts March 5, 2025 An “age of uncertainty”, especially over the path of inflation, means that rapid interest rate cuts are unlikely to be coming to the UK, top Bank of England officials have said. Huw Pill, chief economist at the Bank of England, said the central bank was unlikely to make “larger and more rapid cuts to interest [...]
Games Workshop shares are undervalued says broker as My Warhammer registrations surge March 5, 2025 FTSE 100 juggernaut Games Workshop has seen its stock price upgraded by a City broker after stating that trading had been running ahead of expectations in 2025. In a typically brief trading update today, the Warhammer maker said it expected its profit before tax to run ahead of analyst forecasts this year. “Games Workshop announces [...]
UK jobs cuts accelerate as firms fret over stagflation March 5, 2025 UK service firms are cutting jobs at the sharpest rate since November 2020 as fears about the state of the economy spread. S&P Global’s latest UK Services PMI, which measures business activity in the services sector, found that 24 per cent of firms cut their employees in February, compared to only 13 per cent which [...]
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust: City broker warns of underperformance March 5, 2025 City broker Stifel has warned that popular investment trust Scottish Mortgage might suffer from underperformance in coming years as growth-focused US stocks begin to fall out of favour with markets. In a research note today, Stifel analysts Iain Scouller and William Crighton said that noted that Scottish Mortgage’s share price has jumped around 27 per [...]
Impax slashes jobs after loss of St James’s Place mandate March 5, 2025 Impax Asset Management has made 10 per cent of its employees redundant after losing a £5.1bn mandate from St James’s Place. The 30 layoffs, which Impax said should save over £11m for the firm annually, have occurred over the last six months, the company said in a stock exchange update today. Job losses resulted from [...]
Global dividends reach record high in 2024 despite UK fall March 5, 2025 Global dividends reached a record high of $1.75 trillion (£1.38 trillion) in 2024, despite a slight fall in UK payouts. Dividends rose 6.6 per cent on an underlying basis last year, according to the latest Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index. Underlying payouts in the UK fell slightly (-0.6 per cent), although this masked some growth [...]
