Celtic and when does financial prudence become sporting underinvestment? September 17, 2026 By most conventional measures, Celtic should be a model of how to run a football club. According to the club’s latest accounts, Celtic generated £143.6m of revenue and £33.9m of profit after tax, while finishing the year with £77.3m in cash. Shareholders have benefited too. According to FactSet, Celtic shares have appreciated approximately 153 per [...]
Next boss Wolfson tells Healey: ‘You can’t spend your way out of a crisis’ September 17, 2026 Lord Wolfson, Next’s chief executive, has urged Chancellor John Healey to cut spending at next month’s Budget, warning, “you can’t spend your way out of a funding crisis”. The retail boss has urged the government to clamp down on spending, avoid further tax hikes and slash planning red tape to boost economic growth. He told [...]
Medisca Launches Global Peptide Division September 17, 2026 New division brings API-grade peptides and Medisca’s quality-first pharmaceutical expertise to a rapidly evolving area of personalized medicine
Elliptic Launches Its Decode Agent to Answer On-Chain Risk Questions and Shows Its Work September 17, 2026 Hours of tracing, answered in seconds, with the evidence attached
Musk skips King’s AI safety summit with world’s biggest tech chiefs September 17, 2026 King Charles will warn some of the world’s most powerful AI companies against letting humanity “lose control of our destiny” on Thursday, as he brings tech bosses together in Scotland amid escalating warnings about the new technology. The King will host executives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind at Dumfries House in Ayrshire to [...]
Bank of England holds interest rates and overhauls bond sale programme September 17, 2026 The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold at a sixth consecutive meeting, but warned that they were likely to rise at future meetings unless the threat to energy markets posed by the Iran war begins to ease. The central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted six to three to leave rates unchanged, in [...]
Former Colombian President Iván Duque Appointed to Advance ICC and Carbon Measures’ Global Product-Level Carbon Accounting Initiative September 17, 2026 Duque will chair the ICC & Carbon Measures Technical Expert Panel Advisory Group, bringing policy, business and practitioner perspectives into the next phase of their work.
Hachette UK Launches Raising Readers PSA To Tackle Global Reading Decline Amongst Children September 17, 2026 Raising Readers is Hachette UK’s worldwide social impact campaign to combat the significant decline in children’s reading for pleasure, the single biggest predictor of a child’s future success. Reading to a child for just 10 minutes a day changes their life.
Federal Reserve earns rebuke from Trump after interest rate hike September 17, 2026 Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time since 2023 and effectively pencilled in another hike this year, defying President Trump’s demands for looser monetary policy. On Wednesday, Warsh joined a unanimous decision to raise the US’s central rate by 25 basis points – or a quarter of a percentage point [...]
Next lifts profit targets but sounds alarm on ‘vicious circle’ of high tax and low growth September 17, 2026 Next has lifted its profit target again following “much better” than expected trading in the first half of the year as the retailer was spurred on by booming international sales and record summer temperatures. The FTSE 100 retail giant saw sales across its group jump by nine per cent in the six months to July, [...]