By: Ali Lyon

Chief reporter 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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British firms brace for ‘eye-watering’ April cost hikes

April 1, 2025

Businesses across the UK are bracing for one of the worst weeks of cost hikes in recent history, with industry groups warning that the “eye-watering” rise in firms’ overheads will hamper investment and hiring, and result in higher prices at the till. Hikes to the minimum wage and employers’ National Insurance contributions announced in October’s [...]
Boss of Mirror publisher quits to join Jockey Club

March 31, 2025

The boss of news publisher Reach has left with immediate effect for a new role at the Jockey Club, the UK’s largest commercial horseracing organisation. Jim Mullen, who has been chief executive at the owner of the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Daily Star since 2019, is leaving by “mutual agreement”, the firm’s board said [...]
Why are we all saving so much?

March 30, 2025

It’s a question that has been puzzling economists for months. The worst of the cost-of-living crisis is, for most households, moving further into their rear-view mirror. The Bank of England’s rate setters have successfully – if belatedly – reined in the worst of the inflation that caused so many households to tighten their belts after [...]
Mark Kleinman: Monzo chief lands windfall amid listing debate

March 27, 2025

Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column. This week, he tackles a nice payday for the Monzo boss, an unlikely friendship, and the great British export that is the Premier League. Bravery or foolhardiness? Klarna’s decision to press the button on a US initial [...]
‘Corporate purpose? It went too far’, says man behind Britain’s Davos

March 25, 2025

John O’Brien founded Anthropy – an annual gathering of corporate and political luminaries dubbed ‘Britain’s Davos’ – to help the UK ‘build back better’ from the pandemic. On the eve of its third instalment in the Eden Project’s greenery, Ali Lyon asks the ex-army captain, “Has it failed?” It is October 2022, and a group [...]
Super-prime London property market ‘flourishing’ despite non-dom reforms

March 21, 2025

"London is London, and 2023 and 2024 weren't the best years in the real estate world in general, But the good news is that the UK luxury market has been a little more resilient," Mike Golden co-founder of Christie's International Real Estate (CIRE) said.
Poppy Gustafsson: UK can be ‘safe haven’ amid Trump turbulence

March 20, 2025

The UK can be a beacon of stability to investors and businesses in a world where geopolitical tensions, and “populism and protectionism” are on the rise, the minister for investment has said. Citing the government’s large majority and internationalist outlook, Baroness Gustafsson trumpeted the UK’s offer of long-term certainty to investors, branding the country a [...]
Xlinks’ sub-sea high-wire act

March 20, 2025

The story of a Moroccan wind and solar farm the size of Greater London providing energy for a country thousands of miles away would ordinarily be the preserve of sci-fi books. But Xlinks founder Simon Morrish tells Ali Lyon that the only thing stopping it from becoming a reality is the UK’s snail-paced state. Simon Morrish is [...]
In the dumps: Man with £769m of bitcoin in landfill has appeal rejected

March 14, 2025

James Howells, the man who claims to have lost £769m worth of bitcoin in a Welsh landfill, has had his appeal thrown out by the second-highest court in the land – and has now resolved to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights. Howells, who lost 8,000 coins of the cryptocurrency after [...]
Gold clears $3,000 for first time ever

March 14, 2025

Gold prices scaled $3,000 per ounce for the first time ever on Friday, as investors and central banks continue to hoover up the popular safe haven asset as a bulwark against persistent geopolitical and economic uncertainty. The milestone caps an astonishing rally for the yellow metal in recent years. The price of gold has jumped [...]

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