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30 Sep
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Covid-19 claims, company failures, Google

Insurers risk sending struggling companies to the wall if they appeal against a High Court ruling on Covid-19 claims, the industry has been warned. Businesses were told yesterday that they may have to wait until next year for a verdict on claims on business interruption policies because insurers were considering an appeal against this month’s test case judgment. The latest development potentially shatters hopes that businesses would receive swift payouts. - The Times.

29 Sep
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: London, Co-op Funeralcare, William Hill

A prolonged battle against Covid-19 would swallow up a large chunk of the government’s planned increase in public spending and force the chancellor into an unenviable choice between fresh austerity, higher taxes or more borrowing, a leading thinktank has warned. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that even if only a quarter of the extra £70bn allocated by Rishi Sunak to fight the pandemic had to be repeated in future years, the Treasury would either have to find more money than set aside in this year’s budget or announce cuts.

28 Sep
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Monday newspaper round-up: High streets, IWG, SSP

Business leaders have heaped pressure on the government to agree a last-minute Brexit trade deal after a survey showed that more than three-quarters backed an agreement with Brussels. The CBI warned ministers that only 4% of company bosses from a survey of 648 said they supported a no deal Brexit, while 77% said they wanted a deal. - Guardian .

27 Sep
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Sunday newspaper round-up: Rolls-Royce, IWG, Bank of England

Rolls-Royce is poised to tap investors for £2. 5billion at a steep discount to the current share price to solve its funding crisis, The Mail on Sunday understands. City sources said it was considering pricing the cash call at £1 per share – 35 per cent below Friday's closing price of £1. 54. - Mail on Sunday.

25 Sep
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Friday newspaper round-up: Reverse commuters, hospitality industry, Google

Norfolk, Wiltshire and Cornwall have emerged as hotspots for properties on sale at £1m or more, as wealthy buyers hunt for larger homes near the sea or in the countryside. Traditionally, more expensive homes have taken far longer to sell than properties in the wider market, but the race for more space and leafier locations as more people work from home in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a sales boom in the £1m price bracket, according to the UK’s biggest property website, Rightmove.

24 Sep
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Ocado, City shutdown, insurers

Ocado could make up to 200 workers at its Hatfield call centre redundant as it shifts the roles to Sunderland in an apparent cost-cutting move at a time when the online grocer is recording record profits. One call centre worker involved in a 45-day redundancy consultation process which started this week described the cuts as “quite brutal” for staff who had worked throughout lockdown as Ocado responded to a huge surge in orders. - Guardian .

23 Sep
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Facebook, Tesla, Asda

The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is weighing up plans to replace the furlough scheme with German-style wage subsidies as part of a wider emergency support package to help businesses through a second wave of Covid-19. Sources from business and industry told the Guardian that the Treasury has been consulting on options for the end of the furlough scheme as concerns mount over increasing numbers of job losses, and as rising infections and tougher restrictions risk derailing Britain’s economic fightback from the pandemic.

22 Sep
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Curfews, J Crew, NMC Health

Pubs, bars and restaurants in England will have to shut by 10pm from Thursday under new nationwide restrictions to halt an “exponential” rise in coronavirus cases. Police have also been handed powers to issue £1,000 fines and make arrests to enforce 2 metre social distancing in pubs and restaurants, the Guardian has learned. Boris Johnson is expected to make an address to the nation on Tuesday setting out the new measures. - Guardian.

21 Sep
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Monday newspaper round-up: Banks, Wheaton Precious Metals, Covid economic hit

The government has been accused of failing to rescue struggling industrial companies through its “Project Birch” bailout scheme amid signs that manufacturers are slashing investment in a fight for survival. Against a backdrop of mounting job losses, Labour said the Treasury support scheme was gathering dust after only one company qualified for emergency bailout funding. - Guardian.

20 Sep
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Sunday newspaper round-up: Coronavirus, UK taxes, Wheaton Precious Metals

Britain’s most senior government scientists will make a direct appeal to the public on Monday, warning that the coronavirus trend is “heading in the wrong direction” and “a critical point has been reached”. As Downing Street considers imposing nationwide curbs to contain a sharp jump in cases, the chief medical officer for England, Chris Whitty, will make a rare live televised address alongside the UK chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance. - Guardian.

18 Sep
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Friday newspaper round-up: Flutter Entertainment, jobs, Arm Holdings

The value of the Queen’s land and property has been written down by more than £500m following a steep fall in rental receipts from shops. The Crown Estate encompasses London’s Regent Street and St James’s as well as malls and retail parks around the country, alongside the rights to seabeds around the British Isles. However, the coronavirus pandemic has forced it to consider the value of its holdings as retailers and office tenants struggle to make rental payments.

17 Sep
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Thursday newspaper round-up: John Lewis, Klarna, Spotify

John Lewis is working on plans for a massive reduction in the size of its London flagship store, converting entire floors into offices, as shoppers switch to buying online and the crisis on British high streets turns into a fight for survival amid the Covid pandemic. The staff-owned department store has applied for planning permission to switch up to three floors of its landmark Oxford Street store – which currently house children’s ranges, electrical goods, kitchen and bathroom departments as well as dining areas – into office space for rent.

16 Sep
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Thomas Cook, New Look, Travelex

Thomas Cook is being resurrected as an online-only travel business, exactly a year after the 178-year-old company ceased trading, stranding 150,000 holidaymakers abroad. The relaunch comes as the travel industry faces the worst tourism crisis since records began. World Tourism Organisation figures show that international tourist trips dropped by 65% during the first half of the year, an unprecedented drop. But Thomas Cook’s UK chief executive, Alan French, said the company was taking the “long view”.

15 Sep
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Arm Holdings, New Look, pension funds

The government is under pressure to intervene in the $40bn (£31bn) takeover of the UK’s biggest tech company, Arm Holdings, after Labour, trade unions and the company’s co-founder voiced concerns about the deal. The US software firm Nvidia said on Monday it had agreed to buy Cambridge-based Arm, a global leader in designing chips for smartphones, computers and tablets, from Japan’s SoftBank. - Guardian .

14 Sep
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Monday newspaper round-up: Redundancies, TikTok, Gilead Sciences

Tens of thousands of pubs, bars, nightclubs and gig venues will not survive increased coronavirus-prevention measures, such as local lockdowns and evening curfews, unless they receive fresh state support, the UK government has been warned. One in four of the 115,000 licensed premises in Britain still had not reopened by the end of August after restrictions were imposed to contain Covid-19, according to data from the analysis firm CGA and AlixPartners. – Guardian.

13 Sep
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Sunday newspaper round-up: ARM, Ocado, UK unemployment

SoftBank is set to sell ARM for more than £30bn to American tech giant Nvidia, as fears mount over the future of 3,000 domestic jobs at the Cambridge-based tech company. The Japanese conglomerate, founded and led by billionaire Masayoshi Son, could seal a deal to sell ARM, whose technology powers most of the world’s smartphones, as early as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story. - Sunday Times.

11 Sep
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Friday newspaper round-up: Arm, furlough scheme, Deloitte

Hotels and restaurants have been hit by a wave of cancellations as new coronavirus restrictions throw the country’s Christmas celebrations into doubt and raise the prospect of a fresh setback for the high street. If new rules banning gatherings of more than six people remain in place over the festive season, analysts say, the absence of Christmas parties and big family get-togethers could cost retailers billions of pounds in lost clothing and food sales. - Guardian.

10 Sep
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Rio Tinto, Goldman Sachs, London offices

The number of people going back to work in offices has flatlined in the past two months despite the government push to get more workers into cities to protect Britain’s biggest urban economies from collapse. According to analysis of mobile phone tracking data by the Centre for Cities thinktank, worker footfall across 63 of the UK’s largest town and city centres was just 17% of pre-lockdown levels at the end of June, remained at 17% at the start of August and was still at 17% in the last full week of the month.

09 Sep
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Amazon, Iceland, Lloyds Bank

Amazon’s key UK business paid just 3% more tax last year when profits rose by more than a third as the online retailer benefited from the switch to home shopping. The group’s warehouse and logistics operation, which employs more than two-thirds of its 30,000-plus UK workforce, Amazon UK Services, said its corporation tax contribution was £14. 46m in 2019, up from £14. 03m the year before. Pretax profits at the division soared 35% to nearly £102m as revenues rose by 29% to nearly £3bn, according to accounts about to be published by Companies House.

08 Sep
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: City centre stores, Morrisons, UK tech industry

The slow return of UK workers to their normal place of work will come too late to save hard-pressed city centre stores from going under, the body that represents retailers has said. Despite a pick-up in spending in August, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said sales were still below their pre-pandemic level and the lack of people was having a devastating impact on shops operating in places once thronged with workers. – Guardian.