JD Sports: Retailer partners with UFC ahead of London Fight Night March 17, 2025 UK retailer and FTSE 100 giant JD Sports has partnered with fighting organisation UFC in a deal that begins this weekend at London’s Fight Night. The Manchester-headquartered brand forms half of a European partnership, which will see it become a key partner across UFC despite it issuing a profit warning in January. JD Sports forecast [...]
Investec Champions Cup Barometer: Itoje for British and Irish Lions captain? March 17, 2025 In the lead up to the 2024-25 Investec Champions Cup round of 16, City A.M. has put together a barometer in partnership with Investec to assess which teams are hot – and which are not – ahead of April’s knockouts. Player of the week: Maro Itoje, Saracens For a long time no other name but [...]
Porsche 911 Carrera T Cabriolet review: A strange kind of sense March 17, 2025 This is the slowest Porsche 911 on sale. Pull up at the lights next to Gary in his new Golf R and you’ll be outsprinted to 62mph, albeit only by 0.1 seconds. Does that matter? To some people it will. But then any number of electric SUVs can deliver the one-dimensional rush of rapid acceleration. [...]
Boxing nearing Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games inclusion March 17, 2025 Boxing’s once uncertain Olympic future appears to have been resolved with the sport set to feature in the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. The International Olympic Committee itself organised the sport’s competitions at the last two Games – in Tokyo in 2021 and Paris in 2024 – after governance issues relating to the International Boxing [...]
No10: Government ‘absolutely committed’ to independent football regulator March 17, 2025 The government has insisted it remains “absolutely committed” to the incoming football regulator despite chancellor Rachel Reeves’ desire to slash bureaucratic bodies. Reports suggested that plans to get rid of a number of quangos, as well as Reeves’ opinion that regulators are “too slow to get things done”, could have resulted in the Football Governance [...]
Rory McIlroy hits $100m in PGA Tour prize money with Players win March 17, 2025 Rory McIlroy has taken his PGA Tour prize money to $100m with a St Patrick’s Day victory at the Players’ Championship. The Northern Irishman’s second win at the prestigious tournament earned him $4.5m and took his total prize money from events on the tour to nine figures. McIlroy has also banked more than $50m on [...]
Lack of prime Mayfair houses triggers hotel and lettings boom March 17, 2025 Mayfair’s hotel and lettings sector has scooped up luxury clients left adrift by a lack of prime housing in the area, a new survey has found. With new planning restrictions and rising construction costs pushing construction to a ten-year low, wealthy visitors have turned to newly built apartments or hotel suites during their stays, according [...]
Qinetiq share price slump shows defence firms aren’t immune from turbulence March 17, 2025 Defence stocks are some of the hottest in Europe right now as government’s ramp-up military spending in response to developments in Ukraine. Donald Trump’s push for European nations to take more responsibility for security has driven up shares in the likes of BAE Systems, Thales and Leonardo. In the UK, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer [...]
Broker questions Asda’s turnaround plan March 17, 2025 London broker Jeffries has questioned whether Asda’s sales will rise quickly enough to meet the demands of its turnaround plan. Last week, UK supermarket giant Asda announced a drop in yearly sales, alongside a significant turnaround plan aiming to bring the supermarket back to its roots. Key to this plan is a significant investment in [...]
Oracle: Billionaire backer of Donald Trump to invest billions in the UK March 17, 2025 Oracle, the US technology giant founded by a major billionaire backer of Donald Trump, has announced plans to invest $5bn (£3.9bn) in the UK. The company, which was co-founded by Larry Ellison, said it will invest the money over the next five years to ‘meet the rapidly growing demand for its cloud services in the [...]