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Lauren Almeida

London

Business Reporter at The Guardian

Tempus bod @TimesBusiness covering global stocks and investment trusts. Got a story? Contact me in confidence via DM or 📧 [email protected]

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  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Lauren Almeida

    US stocks have fallen further after Donald Trump imposed a new trade restriction on the chip designer Nvidia, rattling investors and triggering a sell-off across the semiconductor industry. The S&P 500 index dropped by about 1.3% in early trading, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq index down 2.1%. The Dow Jones fell 0.6%.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Lauren Almeida

    Shares plunge as firm says H20 chip, designed for Chinese market to comply with controls, will now need special licence

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Lauren Almeida

    Growing uncertainty from Donald Trump’s tariffs has wiped more than £2bn from the value of one of the UK’s biggest listed businesses, sending shares in the paper cups to plastic bags distributor Bunzl plunging more than 25%. The FTSE 100 group, which provides everyday goods for other companies, warned about “macroeconomic uncertainty” as it said sales had been soft in its North American operation.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Lauren Almeida

    China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing jets, the latest move in its tit-for-tat trade war with the US. The Chinese government has asked carriers to stop purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from American companies, according to a report from Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The order from Beijing reportedly came after it announced its retaliatory tariffs of 125% on US goods over the weekend.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Lauren Almeida

    The owner of Pontins holiday parks has been charged with corporate manslaughter after part of a ceiling collapsed six years ago on to guests at a bar, one of whom died months later in hospital. Eighteen people were injured at the Brean Sands site in Somerset in February 2019 after a 40-metre section of structural ducting and ceiling fell inside an entertainment area and exposed live electrics.

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Lauren Almeida
Lauren Almeida @laurenalmeida_l
28 Mar 25

It's been great fun covering the Tempus column at The Times for the past year. Last go at Tesla here: https://t.co/gL2BZjhiqB Very excited to join @guardian's business desk in April. Will share new email in due course for tips, data, story ideas, jokes, riddles etc!

Lauren Almeida
Lauren Almeida @laurenalmeida_l
18 Dec 24

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Lauren Almeida
Lauren Almeida @laurenalmeida_l
4 Dec 24

RT @fish_bella: Police are investigating claims of stalking and “corporate espionage” made by executives at Boohoo Group, The Times can rev…