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cityam.com | Mark Kleinman |Ali Lyon
Thursday 29 May 2025 4:00 am | Updated: Wednesday 28 May 2025 10:07 pm Mark Kleinman: AA float needs smart pricing to avoid breakdown Sky News City Editor Here’s a candidate for toughest IPO mandate in the City: return the venerable AA, the UK’s biggest breakdown recovery service, to the public markets roughly five years after it was taken private for a fraction of its 2014 IPO valuation. Such a move is now in the mind’s eye of the AA’s triumvirate of private equity backers: Stonepeak...
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cityam.com | Ali Lyon
Wednesday 28 May 2025 2:35 pm Billionaire tech entrepreneur joins non-dom exodus Senior reporter Guillaume Pousaz, founder of Checkout.com, has left the UK to avoid the non-dom crackdown (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images) The billionaire founder of one of Britain’s top fintechs has quit the UK for Monaco, becoming the latest super-rich foreigner to flee the government’s crackdown on non-doms. Guillaume Pousaz, who started payments firm Checkout.com in 2012, changed his country...
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flipboard.com | Ali Lyon
The billionaire founder of one of Britain’s top fintechs has quit the UK for Monaco, becoming the latest super-rich foreigner to flee the …
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cityam.com | Ali Lyon
Tuesday 27 May 2025 1:58 pm EU firms should move plants to UK to avoid tariff ‘flare ups’ Senior reporter European carmakers will be feeling the pinch from Donald Trump’s tariff regime European companies should urgently ramp up manufacturing capacity in Britain to avoid the worst effects of Donald Trump’s tariff regime, a top accountancy firm has said. According to Alex Altmann, head of the German desk at Lubbock Fine, the 10 per cent US import tariff agreed as part of newly inked UK-US trade...
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cityam.com | Paul Armstrong |Ali Lyon
Tuesday 27 May 2025 7:00 am | Updated: Monday 26 May 2025 10:47 pm The death of deep thinking: What generative AI is doing to your future team Will AI spell the death of deep thinking? AI is reshaping education at a structural level, but the implications are beginning to show beyond lecture halls.
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cityam.com | Ali Lyon
Tuesday 27 May 2025 12:01 am | Updated: Monday 26 May 2025 4:07 pm Hard to swallow: food inflation rises for fourth month in a row Senior reporter Food inflation rose for a fourth consecutive month in May, with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) warning a new packaging tax and the government’s workers’ rights overhaul will fuel further price rises in the coming months. The cost of food rose by an average of 2.8 per cent year on year in May, up from a rise of 2.6 per cent in April, according...
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cityam.com | Ali Lyon
Monday 26 May 2025 2:52 pm Small businesses demand workers’ rights sick pay rebate Senior reporter Angela Rayner is one of the main cabinet ministers responsible for delivering the workers’ rights package (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images) Small business owners would continue hiring new staff despite fears around the government’s workers’ rights package if it contained a rebate on the overhaul’s new sick pay rules. According to a poll by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), 35 per...
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cityam.com | Ali Lyon
Saturday 24 May 2025 6:00 am | Updated: Friday 23 May 2025 12:01 pm Panel sessions and punk music: SXSW comes to London Senior reporter Max Alexander, chief executive of SXSW London (Image courtesy of SXSW) In the first week of June, the world’s largest tech, business and arts festival, SXSW, will make its European debut in Shoreditch. Ali Lyon asks its its chief executive, Max Alexander, why London, and why now? Of the many aspirations Max Alexander has for next month’s inaugural South by...
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africanewsagency.co.uk | Ali Lyon
[Published: Saturday May 24 2025] European stock markets fall sharply on Trump’s EU tariff salvo
By Ali Lyon
LONDON, 25 May. - (ANA) - Stock markets across Europe dropped dramatically on Friday afternoon after Donald Trump announced plans to levy a 50 per cent tariff on all US imports from the European Union next month.
The FTSE 100 dropped as much as 1.35 per cent after the US President mooted the move in a post on Truth social in which he branded the bloc “very difficult to deal with”.
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cityam.com | Ali Lyon
Friday 23 May 2025 5:17 pm Stock markets slide on Trump social media missives Senior reporter Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the US stockmarket fell (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Stock markets across the western world felt the “chill winds” of Donald Trump’s latest trade salvos on Friday after the US President vowed to levy tariffs on imports from Europe and all Apple products made outside the US. America’s S&P 500 index opened down 1.62 per cent as...
