Sterling climbed to its highest level against the US dollar in eighteen months on Friday, breaking through the $1.30 barrier for the first time since October 2024 as a combination of strong UK economic data and dollar weakness driven by…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled a £40 billion infrastructure and green energy spending package on Wednesday in her Spring Spending Review, the most ambitious public investment programme since the post-war reconstruction era. The package, spread over five years to 2031, allocates…
Shell announced a £2 billion investment package for UK energy projects on Thursday, split broadly equally between continued development of its North Sea oil and gas assets and a new portfolio of offshore wind, hydrogen and carbon capture projects in…
Institutional investment in London’s build-to-rent residential sector reached a record £4.8 billion in 2025, according to data published by the British Property Federation this week, with a further £6 billion committed to schemes currently in planning or under construction that…
Marks & Spencer delivered a positive Easter trading update on Tuesday, reporting like-for-like sales growth of 6.2% across its food halls and 4.8% in clothing and homeware for the six weeks to mid-April 2026. The results underscored the retailer’s ongoing…
London’s prime residential property market is showing the clearest signs of recovery since the interest rate cycle peaked in late 2023, with transaction volumes in the capital’s most prestigious postcodes rising 18% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to…
HSBC Holdings reported its strongest first-quarter results in over a decade on Tuesday, posting pre-tax profits of $12.3 billion for the three months ending March 2026, a 14% increase compared to the same period last year. The London-headquartered banking giant…
