By: Ali Lyon

Ali Lyon is the chief reporter at City AM, responsible for covering the full gamut of business, finance and wealth news. He has been at City AM full-time since July 2024. Get in touch with tips via email: ali.lyon@cityam.com. Follow Ali on X: @alilyon_94

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UK bonds sell off after income tax U-turn

November 14, 2025

UK government bonds sold off sharply on Friday morning, as markets recoiled from the government’s decision to row back on plans to plug much of its multibillion-pound black hole with a manifesto-busting income tax hike. The yield on 10-year gilts – the common benchmark for the government’s long-term ability to borrow – climbed by some [...]
Virgin Atlantic uses Heathrow slots as collateral for $745m Apollo loan

November 13, 2025

Virgin Atlantic has borrowed $745m (£564m) from alternatives giant Apollo in a groundbreaking private credit deal that will see the airline use the value of its landing slots at Heathrow as collateral. Virgin said it would use the funds to pay down a legacy debt and make upgrades worth hundreds of millions of pounds to [...]
Flexible offices to comprise a fifth of London market by 2030

November 13, 2025

A fifth of London’s offices will be made up of co-working sites by as soon as 2030, in a further sign of the extent to which the pandemic-induced shift in working patterns is reshaping the capital’s commercial property market. So-called ‘flex’ spaces currently represent just 12 per cent of the total London office market, but [...]
Leadership spat sends jitters through bond markets

November 13, 2025

Jitters coursed through UK bond markets on Wednesday after a leadership crisis engulfing the Labour government triggered a jump in gilt yields, leading investors to warn that more political instability risked exacerbating the ‘moron premium’ applied to UK borrowing costs. Interest on 10-year gilts rose by three basis points, while the pound slumped to its lowest level [...]
AI bubble tensions flare after Wall Street’s £750bn hit

November 10, 2025

The bubbling market tensions continued to simmer on Monday as Wall Street sprung back to life after a week of AI jitters and tech nerves. US markets were coming off a week where AI-related firms lost over £750bn in market value led by a £350bn plunge in chipmaker Nvidia, which lost nearly ten per cent [...]
Adair Turner: Crypto? It’s like buying tulips in 1635

November 7, 2025

As chair of the FSA at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Adair Turner knows all about the anatomy of a global crash. Over 15 years on, exuberance in AI and opaque private credit markets have set warning systems flashing. Ali Lyon, spoke to the arch-technocrat to see whether the fears are justified, and [...]
Lord Frost to head up IEA think tank

November 7, 2025

David Frost has been made the director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in a move the right-leaning think tank has said will herald a “new chapter” for the organisation. Lord Frost, the former cabinet minister best known for spearheading the UK’s Brexit negotiations under Boris Johnson, will be responsible for driving the [...]
London office starts lowest in 15 years

November 6, 2025

New starts on London office developments have fallen to their lowest level since 2010, City AM can reveal, as stubbornly high interest rates and thorny planning laws continue to blight construction in the capital. In the 12 months to October, construction got under way on just 2.5m square feet (sq/ft) of London office space, less [...]
UK faces founder exodus in wake of tax hiking Budget

November 5, 2025

Britain could suffer an exodus of business owners if the Chancellor follows through with rumours of a crackdown on wealth at the upcoming Budget. A fresh poll of founders has shown that four in 10 UK-based entrepreneurs would weigh up whether to leave the UK were Rachel Reeves’s speech to contain either a hike to [...]
Tech stocks plunge after Big Short investor bets against AI

November 4, 2025

American tech stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after a hedge fund manager famed for predicting the Global Financial Crisis revealed he had taken out a billion-dollar bet against some of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies. Michael Burry, the star stock picker whose decision to short the property market was depicted in the blockbuster ‘Big [...]

Government is set to deal major blow to Big Tech’s moves into sports rights

Government is set to deal major blow to Big Tech’s moves into sports rights

Procter & Gamble axes relationship with Kremlin propaganda channel

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