Exclusive: City firms matched with UK diplomats in growth push April 10, 2025 Top City firms including Big Four consultancies are hosting Foreign Office diplomats as part of the department’s efforts to become the “salesforce for UK plc”. More than 100 diplomats and representatives from professional services firms, including KPMG and EY, have been paired up in a bid to improve British business representation overseas. The scheme was [...]
UK IPO market stalls amid Trump tariff uncertainty April 10, 2025 The number of IPOs on the London Stock Exchange stalled in the first quarter of 2025 as listings raised just £74.7m, a 74 per cent decline from last year. In total, there were five new lPOs in the first three months of the year, two on the main market and three on junior stock exchange [...]
British Steel: Talks ongoing as hopes of ‘solution in sight’ for Scunthorpe April 9, 2025 Talks are ongoing as government ministers battle for the future of British Steel this week, with hopes of a “commercial solution in sight”. The firm has launched a consultation on the proposed closure of blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant and the government is in talks with the company’s Chinese owner Jingye. There have been [...]
East London industrial site snapped up for £100m April 9, 2025 Global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson has bought an east London industrial park for £100m. It’s a positive sign for London’s industrial market, which slumped to a decade-low last year as demand for warehouse and logistics sites faded after the pandemic boom. Kennedy Wilson plans to create a set of 10 sustainable industrial units [...]
Fresh headache for Rachel Reeves as UK gilt yields spike to 1998 levels April 9, 2025 UK gilts have spiked to 30-year highs after a selloff in US Treasuries sent government bond markets worldwide spiralling. The yield on 30-year gilts spiked to 5.68 per cent this afternoon, before falling back slightly to 5.62 per cent, well above the previous multi-decade high of 5.47 per cent reached in January. The movement has [...]
Trump must decide what tariffs are for – Private equity chief April 9, 2025 President Donald Trump must decide what his sweeping tariffs are for in order to rescue markets from their ongoing collapse, a private equity chief has said. “The markets are in turmoil because they aren’t sure what we’re solving for, because the messages have been quite mixed,” Hamilton Lane co-CEO Erik Hirsch told City AM. Trump [...]
Roman Basilica discovery forces new City skyscraper rethink April 9, 2025 Plans for a new skyscraper at 85 Gracechurch Street have been updated after the discovery of an “extraordinary” Roman Basilica at the site earlier this year. The proposed scheme now incorporates a public exhibition space in the 32-storey commercial building, which will celebrate the remains of the first Roman Basilica of London. The public immersive [...]
US tariffs: Reeves stresses ‘imperative’ to improve UK-EU trading relations April 9, 2025 Rachel Reeves has stressed it is “imperative” for the UK to improve its trading relationship with the European Union (EU), amid US President Donald Trump’s global trade tariff war. The Chancellor’s comments emerged in an interview with the Financial Times (FT) ahead of a crucial summit with EU leaders in London next month. Reeves told [...]
City broker downgrades outlook for luxury stocks LVMH, Burberry and Richemont April 9, 2025 City broker Deutsche Bank has downgraded the target share price for a host of luxury companies as the impact of Trump’s tariffs starts to filter through analyst forecasts. The broker rated Richemont, LVMH, Moncler and Kering a ‘Hold’, downgrading the share price for each company. “The direct impact of the tariffs is not a huge [...]
US bond market on the verge of ‘meltdown’ as Treasury yields spike April 9, 2025 US government bonds have entered a “meltdown” as long-yield Treasuries briefly reached over five per cent last night amid market panic over Donald Trump’s tariffs. US 30-year Treasury yields spiked briefly above five per cent last night, before settling at 4.9 per cent, up from 4.45 per cent before Trump unveiled his tariffs. The last [...]
