By: Simon Hunt

City Editor Simon Hunt is City editor at City AM, covering the economy and financial markets. He was previously business correspondent for the Evening Standard and a reporter for Bloomberg News.

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No, London’s economy hasn’t lost its lustre. Here’s why

Opinion

The FT has once again remembered to write about London, the city in which the paper was founded and where the lion’s share of its staff, and its readership, is based. Though it turns out the pink’un hasn’t many nice things to say. London’s economy has lost its lustre, the paper writes. Among the evidence [...]
PRs: This is how to handle conflict

Opinion

As a humanities student, one of the academics I cited regularly was the 20th century philosopher AJ Ayer. Ayer is credited, among other things, with popularising, in the English speaking world, the movement of logical positivism – which, to oversimplify, is a theory of the meaning of statements about the world. Few academics were more [...]
‘We’ll keep acquiring’: Young’s sets sights on buying up dozens more London pubs

Hospitality

One of London’s biggest pub chains has said it wants to buy up dozens more pubs after cheering the success of recent takeovers. Young’s, which currently operates around 280 pubs across the country, has set a medium-term target of expanding its estate to 350 pubs. The group has been on a major acquisition spree over [...]

BT overhauls dividend policy as it vows ‘enhanced distributions’ for shareholders

May 21, 2026

BT has refreshed its dividend policy as the telco giant vowed to deliver “enhanced distributions” for shareholders. The FTSE 100 member declared a final dividend of 5.87p, increasing its full-year dividend by 2 per cent to 8.32p. BT said its new policy would be to “grow the dividend by low to mid single digit percent [...]
Vattenfall energy portfolio poised to be snapped up by private equity firm

May 20, 2026

Swedish energy giant Vattenfall is poised to offload a portfolio of its British assets to private equity firm Reinova in the latest step in its retreat from the UK, City AM understands. The conglomerate, owned by the government of Sweden, is set to sell three of its heat network businesses to London-based Reinova Capital for [...]
Costco UK profit soars as Brits buy in bulk amid cost of living pressures

May 20, 2026

Profit at Costco’s UK subsidiary has soared as Brits flocked to the wholesaler to buy in bulk in a bid to swerve cost of living pressures. The grocery chain, which has 29 stores across the UK, including six in London, generated pre-tax profit of £218.6m in the year to the end of August 2025, a [...]
Mustafa Suleyman-founded Inflection AI to return to London

May 20, 2026

Silicon Valley startup Inflection AI is marking a return to London as the company forges ahead with its expansion plans, City AM can reveal. The artificial intelligence business was launched in 2022 by Deepmind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and attracted early backing from Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman. It released its own large language model, Pi, and [...]
Tortilla Mexican Grill admits multi-million accounting blunder

May 19, 2026

Shares in Tortilla Mexican Grill tumbled in early trade on Tuesday after the firm admitted to a multi-million pound accounting blunder. The AIM-listed business said it identified £2.5m of spending in its French arm which was “not expensed through the profit and loss account,” meaning it previously overstated its profits for 2025 and in doing [...]
Cubitts plots expansion to Ireland despite swinging to £1m loss

May 18, 2026

Cubitts swung to a near-£1m loss in 2025 as the spectacle maker counted the cost of its US expansion plans. The London-based business opened its “first stores outside the warm but grey womb of the UK,” with two sites in New York City. Costs of setting up across the pond pushed the eyewear designer to [...]
Kainos shares lift as revenue surges on bumper NHS contract wins

May 18, 2026

One of Northern Ireland’s biggest technology firms has posted a surge in revenue on the back of a spate of NHS contract wins. Belfast-based IT services provider Kainos reported a 17 per cent rise in revenue to £431.1m for the year to end March, led by a 55 per cent jump in turnover from healthcare [...]

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