Isabella Ward
Reporter at Bloomberg News
Currently blogging all things markets for @BloombergUK | 2025 @JSchofieldTrust Fellow | Former physicist | Views my own [email protected]
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Isabella Ward
Good morning and welcome to Markets Today. FTSE 100 futures are up 0.8% as the market looks for signs of hope in negotiations between the US and its trading partners. The pound is a touch weaker against the dollar, now midway between $1.35 and $1.36. Stay with us for everything that matters to UK markets.
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1 month ago |
bloomberg.com | Isabella Ward |Morwenna Coniam |Sam Unsted
AB Foods reported a 12% annual drop in operating profit for the 24 weeks to March and cut guidance for their sugar businesses. They cited persistent low European sugar prices and an operating loss in their UK bioethanol business, Vivergo, as offsetting growth in the Primark owner’s retail businesses.
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1 month ago |
bloomberg.com | Morwenna Coniam |Alex Morgan |Isabella Ward |Dave Goodman
Coming up at the top of the hour we have consumer price inflation data for March. The headline figure is expected to show inflation slowed slightly to 2.7% from a year earlier, while held at 0.4% on a monthly basis. And economists see the key services reading falling to 4.8% from 5% last year.
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2 months ago |
ca.finance.yahoo.com | Isabella Ward
(Bloomberg) -- Swansea University’s Bay Campus on the outskirts of the Welsh city was expected to attract a wave of new fee-paying students to boost revenue after the government squeezed funding to the sector. These days, it’s more of a millstone after overseas enrollments failed to grow as much as expected, a symbol of the wider financial problems facing universities across the UK. • None Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?
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2 months ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Isabella Ward
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Head of Global Tech Applied Research at JPMorgan @marco_pistoia (formerly of IBM) told me: “It’s the biggest accomplishment of my career.”
JPMorgan has generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, in a world-first that the bank hopes will have applications for security and trading. https://t.co/3kwfb0YmgV
The UK government has only partially agreed to Recommendation 21 in Clifford's AI Opportunities Action plan - to explore how to make the immigration system more attractive. They argue: "the UK offers internationally competitive visas". That's not what I found:
Hostile Migration Policy Threatens UK Chip Industry, Bosses Say - Executives warn hiring foreign talent too slow and expensive - Companies say Labour, Tory skills strategies aren’t enough @BloombergUK https://t.co/XdIjJwJUFZ https://t.co/Ll15FpiVsG
Good news for my similarly wired friends and I who over dinner on Fri started to realise that using an ISA to buy a home in Ldn might not be as simple as seems...that @MerrynSW and @John_Stepek tackle it in this week's Merryn Talks YOUR Money episode! https://t.co/UkCTyPQTS1
