The 2024 and 2025 F1 seasons with P1 podcasters Matt and Tommy December 20, 2024 When City AM sat down with Matt Gallagher and Tom Bellingham 18 months ago the podcasting duo had just set up their own F1 startup, P1 with Matt and Tommy. A season-and-a-half and two Max Verstappen world titles later and the duo are enjoying a run of sold out shows replicating their streaming set up, [...]
Dust off the defence manuals… private equity is coming, say advisors December 20, 2024 London’s listed firms have been warned to dust off their defence manuals and prepare for takeover bids as private equity investors limber up for a deals offensive on the London Stock Exchange next year. After a subdued year of dealmaking through 2024, private equity buyers are expected to reignite a swoop on the public markets [...]
Headlam: Flooring specialist’s shares rise after £54m property deals December 20, 2024 Shares in the Brummie-based flooring distributor rose over seven per cent on Friday after it sold off some of its properties for £54m.
Clients of collapsed advice firm to have claims examined December 20, 2024 Claims from the collapsed advice firm Tenet will be investigated by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) at the start of next year. Earlier this year, the firm’s administrators said 9,645 clients were “considered as being at higher risk of having received unsuitable advice”. Tenet, which billed itself as the largest independent financial adviser network [...]
Ex-Brazil envoy slams London Mariana dam lawsuit as ‘undermining justice’ December 20, 2024 Brazil’s former Ambassador to the UK has condemned the ongoing legal battle over the BHP disaster in the London High Court
UK retail sales rise slightly in November amid concern over golden quarter December 20, 2024 The latest ONS data showed retail sales jumped 0.2 per cent last month, following a 0.7 per cent fall in October.
Lord Peter Mandelson expected to be named next ambassador to US December 20, 2024 Labour grandee Lord Peter Mandelson is expected to be the next UK ambassador to the US. Lord Mandelson, who served in the cabinets of Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is poised to be the UK’s next top diplomat in Washington, in a political appointment as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office. The tenure of [...]
Bank of England may be forced to prioritise growth in 2025 December 19, 2024 Despite inflation continuing to be a headache for the Bank of England, leading it to hold interest rates today, the central bank may end up being forced to make more cuts than it would like in 2025 to salvage the UK economy. While today’s decision from Andrew Bailey’s Monetary Policy Committee to hold rates had [...]
The Capitalist: Bunking off work and rationing at Christmas time December 19, 2024 Not turning up for work, an end to bonuses and mindfulness goes out the window: it’s the Christmas edition of The Capitalist Bunking off? That’s the festive spirit As the days and hours creep encouragingly towards that great long stretch of dead time we call Christmas, the topic of skiving off from work has become [...]
Sales skyrocket at London Waterloo after biggest ever Wetherspoons opens December 19, 2024 Sales at London Waterloo shops have soared to the top of a leader-board of Britain’s busiest train stations, following the opening of the UK’s largest ever railway station Wetherspoons. The London hub reported the most quarterly sales growth of any of the 19 stations Network Rail runs in the UK, up 47 per cent year-on-year, [...]