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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Omnicom scoops up media giant IPG in $13bn deal

December 9, 2024

US advertising giant Omnicom Group has bought rival media holding company Interpublic Group in a $13.25bn (£10.4bn) deal that has uprooted the media industry and will make Omnicom the world’s largest advertising agency. The tie-up between the third and fourth largest media holding giants, both of which employ tens of thousands of staff in the [...]
CBI downgrades forecast for UK economy after Budget

December 6, 2024

The UK economy is set for slower than expected and “unimpressive” growth in 2025 thanks partly to punitive measures introduced in October’s Budget, a leading business group has predicted. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) now expects Britain’s economy to grow by just 1.5 per cent next year, it said in its latest economic forecast, [...]
UK economy to ‘grow twice as fast’ as Europe in 2025

December 5, 2024

The UK economy is set to grow twice as fast as its European counterparts next year thanks to the flurry of spending measures announced in October’s Budget, a top bank has forecast. Britain’s gross domestic product (GDP) will increase by 1.4 per cent next year, analysts at ING said in the bank’s annual economic outlook, [...]
Budget to dent prime property market

December 5, 2024

Measures introduced in the October Budget will weigh on the UK’s prime property market next year, with the value of prime central London (PCL) homes in line for a four per cent hit, a forecast has shown. Fresh analysis by Savills said that changes to the stamp duty charged on second homes, VAT on school [...]
More big tax rises are ‘inevitable’, ING says

December 5, 2024

Rachel Reeves will have to do another “big top-up” of tax rises this parliament, analysts at a major bank have said, despite the Chancellor previously vowing not to. In its outlook for 2025, published today, Dutch lender ING said that Reeves’ controversial October Budget “is likely just the beginning” of several more Budgets characterised by [...]
Yours for just £35m: Prices at London’s most expensive development revealed

December 3, 2024

Luxury apartments at London’s most expensive residential property development ever will hit the market for £35m or more and have already racked up a waiting list of over 600 super-rich buyers. 1 Mayfair, the £2bn super-luxury scheme being ring-led by the Phones4u billionaire John Caudwell, is set for completion in spring of 2026 when it [...]
The Trump effect? Why super-rich Americans are moving to the UK

December 3, 2024

Trump’s election victory was widely seen as a boon for America’s top one per cent, but not all of them welcome the return of the Don. Some of them are fleeing their native America, and choosing the UK as their sanctuary, writes Ali Lyon. Tom Ford and Ellen DeGeneres have plenty in common. As well [...]
Former Wizz Air exec fined for breaching share trading laws

November 27, 2024

A former Wizz Air executive has been fined £125,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for trading company shares when City rules barred him from doing so. András Sebők, the budget carrier’s former chief supply officer, fell foul of FCA regulations by illicitly trading London-listed Wizz Air shares during the month-long period leading up to [...]
Ford boss: UK incentives needed to boost uptake of EVs for net zero

November 27, 2024

The automotive industry “urgently” needs government-backed incentives to improve customer uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) or the UK faces missing its net zero targets, the boss of Ford UK has said. Speaking the morning after the government announced a consultation into its EVs sales targets for automakers, Lisa Brankin said the move was welcome but [...]
Smithfield Market to close after 900 years, following City vote

November 26, 2024

London’s oldest meat market is set to close having served the capital for over 900 years, after a City of London panel voted to end its plans to help relocate its traders to a new site in Dagenham Dock. Smithfield market’s owners, the City of London Corporation, had planned to relocate Smithfield and Canary Wharf’s [...]

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