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Press Round-Up Short (Premium)
31 Oct
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Apple, Vauxhall, business rates, Uber

Apple has shrugged off a record run of declining iPhone sales and the brewing Chinese trade war to post an increase in revenues as its fast-growing wearable technology division plugged the gap. Shares rose as much as 3pc following the news, with Apple appearing to break clear of Microsoft as the world’s most valuable listed company. - Telegraph.

30 Oct
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: M&S, Asda, Boeing, Aramco

Marks & Spencer will start offering a “buy now, pay later” service on its website next month as it tries to attract younger customers and boost trade going into the key Christmas period. The retailer has teamed up with Clearpay to offer customers the option of paying for orders of more than £30 in interest-free instalments. – Guardian.

29 Oct
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Deficit target, Alphabet, foreign investment, Hammerson

The government is on course to overshoot its deficit target this year by £16bn after a series of spending pledges, a slowdown in the economy and the spiralling cost of student loans stripped the Treasury of £43bn. The Resolution Foundation, an independent thinktank, warned that the £27bn of spending “headroom” set aside by former chancellor Philip Hammond in March to cope with the costs of Brexit had evaporated over the last six months, leaving the government with a hefty deficit.

28 Oct
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Monday newspaper round-up: Economic forecasts, Metro Bank, KPMG

An influential committee of MPs has condemned as unacceptable the number of IT failures in the financial services sector, which it said have left customers “cashless and cut off”. With bank branches and cash machines disappearing, customers are increasingly reliant on online banking services, but these have been severely disrupted by IT failures at firms including TSB, Visa, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, the Treasury committee said. – Guardian.

25 Oct
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Friday newspaper round-up: Brexit uncertainty, Woodford, Supercuts, Barclays

Brexit uncertainty has begun driving up job losses across Britain as political turmoil holds back the economy, according to a Guardian analysis of economic news over the past month. In a sign of the mounting stress on the UK, the number of people in work dropped by the largest margin in four years in August as companies put their hiring plans on hold, with firms losing contracts and facing delays because of the uncertainty over Britain’s future. , some bright patches remain, including official figures suggesting that a summer recession has been avoided.

24 Oct
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Retailers, Domino's Pizza, liquidations

Retailers have axed 85,000 jobs in the past year as weak consumer demand, rising costs and the switch to online shopping, exacerbated by Brexit uncertainty, have put businesses under increasing pressure. The job losses in the UK’s biggest private employment sector – with particular importance for women – are the latest sign of a crisis on the high street that has seen the closure of thousands of shops and the collapse of some well-known retail names. – Guardian.

23 Oct
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Fracking, Sirius Minerals, Snapchat, energy suppliers

The government’s plan to establish fracking across the UK is years behind schedule and has cost the taxpayer at least £32m so far, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found. An investigation by the National Audit Office (NAO) said the shale gas industry has launched only three wells in three years, even though the plan was to establish 20 by the middle of next year. – Guardian.

22 Oct
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Pay gaps, Asda, Smith & Nephew

The UK government needs to make companies employing more than 30 people report their gender pay gaps if inroads are to be made into the persistent bias in wages and salaries, a senior Bank of England official has said. Andy Haldane, Threadneedle Street’s chief economist, said only 40% of the private-sector workforce was covered by legislation that obliges companies with more than 250 staff members to publish details of differences in pay between men and women doing identical jobs.

21 Oct
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Monday newspaper round-up: Financial crisis, Cobham, Metro Bank

The world is sleepwalking towards a fresh economic and financial crisis that will have devastating consequences for the democratic market system, according to the former Bank of England governor Mervyn King. Lord King, who was in charge at Threadneedle Street during the near-death of the global banking system and deep economic slump a decade ago, said the resistance to new thinking meant a repeat of the chaos of the 2008-09 period was looming. - Guardian.

18 Oct
Friday newspaper round-up: Brexit deal, WH Smith, Hargreaves Lansdown

The head of the International Monetary Fund jumped for joy on hearing that Britain had struck a draft Brexit deal with the European Union as the global community swung behind efforts to get the agreement over the line. Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF managing director, and David Malpass, president of the World Bank, welcomed the end to the uncertainty that the agreement promises if it clears parliament this weekend. - The Times.

17 Oct
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Unemployment, British Steel, Metro Bank

Millions more people in Britain are without a job than shown by official unemployment figures, according to a study that suggests the jobless rate should be almost three times higher. According to research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Centre for Cities thinktank, large levels of “hidden” unemployment in towns and cities across Britain are excluded from the official government statistics. – Guardian.

16 Oct
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: CBI, Latitude Financial, Thomas Cook, Woodford

The Confederation of British Industry has admitted it exaggerated the “eye-watering” £196bn price tag that it claimed Labour’s nationalisation plans would cost. In an email exchange between Labour and the CBI, seen by the Guardian, the UK’s foremost business lobby group told the party it recognised that some of its analysis did not reflect the party’s policy. – Guardian.

15 Oct
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: WeWork, Thomas Cook, Hargreaves Lansdown, interest rates

WeWork is expected to sack at least 2,000 people as soon as this week, as angry staff at the troubled office rental company turn on its co-founder Adam Neumann. WeWork rents buildings long-term, gives them a millennial makeover with beer taps, communal spaces and tiny workspaces, and then rents them out short-term. Until recently it was America’s most highly valued private company with 527,000 tenants, or “members”, as WeWork calls them, worldwide. – Guardian.

14 Oct
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Monday newspaper round-up: UK high streets, FirstGroup, Pizza Express

The number of shoppers heading to UK high streets, retail parks and shopping centres has fallen by 10% in the last seven years, the latest research shows. The trend was echoed in September, when retailers came under renewed pressure after heavy rainfall and Brexit worries kept consumers away, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Springboard data company. Retail footfall dropped 1. 7% last month compared with the same month last year, and 1. 6% on a three-month basis.

11 Oct
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Friday newspaper round-up: HMV, Dyson, Autonomy

The biggest music and movies store in Europe opens on Friday as the new Canadian owner of HMV takes the first step in a bold expansion plan he hopes will defy slumping sales of CDs and DVDs. The size of a supermarket and called HMV Vault, the Birmingham shop is stocking 80,000 CDs and 25,000 vinyl albums. It is a brave move at a time when traditional high-street retailers are closing in record numbers and in a business where online streaming has battered sales of physical entertainment products.

10 Oct
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Ex-Barclays bosses, Shell, BA

Prosecutors for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) say attempts by former Barclays bank bosses to show advisory services provided by Qatar were merely a “smoke-screen” to try to “legitimise” fraudulent payments to the Gulf state in 2008. A jury at the Old Bailey in London heard that former banking executives tried to gather evidence that would show that payments to Qatar were made in exchange for genuine advisory services, rather than a way of disguising illegitimate fees worth £322m.

09 Oct
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Wonga, Zantac, Barclays execs

Customers who were mis-sold loans by the collapsed payday lender Wonga are expected to receive less than 10% of what they are owed in compensation after administrators revealed that only £41m will be put aside for claimants. Administrators for Wonga, which collapsed last year, also revealed that they had scrapped plans to sell its loan book, saying there were doubts that bidders met the criteria, including properly approaching customers for debt payments on outstanding loans.

08 Oct
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: No-deal Brexit, LSE, online shareholder forums, Pizza Express

Emergency tax cuts and higher public spending to offset the impact of a no-deal Brexit would send government debt to its highest level in more than half a century, according to Britain’s leading experts on the public finances. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the scale of the government response required to firefight a flatlining economy in the event of a disorderly departure from the EU would come with a hefty price tag for the public purse. – Guardian.

07 Oct
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Monday newspaper round-up: Debt, tax rules, Refinitiv, Sirius Mienrals

Debt campaigners have accused the International Monetary Fund of encouraging reckless lending by extending $93bn (£75bn) of loans to 18 financially troubled countries without a debt restructuring programme first. In advance of the IMF’s annual meeting in Washington next week, the Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC) said the the Fund was breaking its own rules by providing financial support without ensuring that the debt burden was sustainable. – Guardian.

04 Oct
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Friday newspaper round-up: Housebuilding, Ryanair, Metro Bank, KPMG

Housebuilding across England has fallen to the slowest quarterly rate for three years, according to official figures, despite a promise by the government of a homebuilding revolution. Figures published by the housing ministry showed construction began on 37,220 homes in England in the three months to June – 8% down on the same period a year ago, and the lowest quarterly number of new home starts since 2016. – Guardian.