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Aston Martin picks up speed after billionaire chairman Lawrence Stroll injects £50m

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:03 BST, 31 March 2025 Aston Martin’s billionaire executive chairman is ploughing more than £50million into the [...]

‘Barbarians at the gate’ US buyout firm KKR set to snap up Thames Water as it races to avoid renationalisation

By JESSICA CLARK Updated: 22:00 BST, 31 March 2025 US private equity is closing in on a deal to buy troubled Thames Water as it [...]

Virgin billionaire Richard Branson plans Channel tunnel trains to rival Eurostar

By JESSICA CLARK Updated: 22:00 BST, 31 March 2025 Richard Branson is planning to launch a rail service to rival Eurostar.The billionaire’s Virgin Group said [...]

Deposit protection limit for savers if their bank or building society fails could be raised to £110,000

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 BST, 31 March 2025 The deposit protection limit for savers if their bank or building society [...]

FSCS limit could rise to £110,000 from December in boost for savers

By HARVEY DORSET Updated: 11:51 BST, 31 March 2025 The Financial Services Compensation Scheme deposit protection limit could increase to £110,000, if proposals by The [...]

Gym-going Gen Z pushes Fabletics towards $1bn

By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 21:50 BST, 30 March 2025 Fabletics is aiming to become a $1bn brand and open UK shops – thanks [...]

Donald Trump’s trade war hits morale among Britain’s car makers

By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 21:53 BST, 30 March 2025 Confidence among British car manufacturers crashed this month due to Donald Trump's trade war threats.The US [...]

Chancellor told: Rule out pensions grab in autumn

By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 21:50 BST, 30 March 2025 Rachel Reeves is under mounting pressure to rule out a punishing tax raid on pensions to [...]

Trust boosts its defences after failed assault by Boaz Weinstein

By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 21:55 GMT, 29 March 2025 An investment trust targeted by US carpetbagger Boaz Weinstein has moved to see off the Wall [...]

NICOLA HORLICK: A colleague stinks and it’s costing ME business

By NICOLA HORLICK Updated: 21:51 GMT, 29 March 2025 Working life today is full of constantly evolving challenges and pitfalls. When is it OK to [...]

Queens of menswear setting up shop in Mayfair

By ANNE ASHWORTH Updated: 21:50 GMT, 29 March 2025 Jermyn Street shirt-maker Emma Willis is opening a Mayfair shop with Savile Row-trained tailor Caroline Andrew.The [...]

Dacia’s new Bigster is big on comfort and a lot of car for your £25,000: RAY MASSEY

By RAY MASSEY Updated: 22:02 GMT, 28 March 2025 Its name is the Bigster, but after two days of driving one, I think the latest [...]

MARKET WATCH: BA owner in free fall after transatlantic crackdown

By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 March 2025 Shares in British Airways owner IAG fell after a crackdown by the competition watchdog [...]

Fast fashion giant Boohoo in Debenhams rebrand

By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 March 2025 Boohoo will trade as Debenhams from next week despite opposition from Mike Ashley.The fast [...]

Gold nears $3,100 as investors run for cover from Trump tariffs

Analysts have widely credited the rising gold price to economic unpredictability By HARRY WISE Updated: 11:32 GMT, 28 March 2025 Gold prices have hit yet another [...]

Chelsea’s Todd Boehly eyes takeover of dozens of local British newspapers

Boehly's Eldridge Media Holdings is considering a bid for National WorldBy MIKE SHEEN Updated: 11:30 GMT, 28 March 2025 Co-owner of Chelsea Football Club Todd [...]

Got a broken smart meter? You can now get £40 if it’s not fixed in 90 days

By RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS Updated: 23:03 GMT, 27 March 2025 Households with broken smart meters will automatically receive £40 compensation from their energy provider if [...]

Blow to Chancellor’s budget plans as borrowing costs climb to three-month high

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 23:02 GMT, 27 March 2025 Borrowing costs climbed to a three-month high yesterday, in a blow to Rachel Reeves’s Budget [...]

MARKET WATCH: Naked Wines cheers shares surge as it unveils plan to return to sales growth

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 27 March 2025 Shares in Naked Wines soared after it unveiled a strategic plan to [...]

Cinema bookings soar: Rom-coms steal the show as viewers go mad about Bridget Jones

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 27 March 2025 Cinema bookings soared last month as blockbusters including Bridget Jones: Mad About [...]

Foreign predators swooping on British companies at rate not seen for three years

By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 22:00 GMT, 27 March 2025 Foreign predators are swooping on British companies at a rate not seen for three years.In a [...]

Tesla hits major UK sales milestone – here’s how many of its EVs have been delivered since 2014…

By ROB HULL Updated: 15:47 GMT, 27 March 2025 Tesla has confirmed it has reached a major sales milestone in the UK as Britons continue [...]

Buying state pension top-ups: Everything you need to know – This is Money’s latest coverage

By TANYA JEFFERIES Updated: 09:37 GMT, 27 March 2025 A crucial deadline to fill gaps in state pension records and boost your payments is looming [...]

LV dishes out £29m in bonuses to 280,000 eligible members

By JANE DENTON Updated: 09:24 GMT, 27 March 2025 LV distributed £29million in bonuses to 280,000 eligible members during the past year, newly published results show. The [...]

Boost for BP as bosses get a vote of confidence after ditching green targets

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 07:42 GMT, 27 March 2025 BP bosses received a much-needed boost as an advisory firm backed the [...]

Babcock seals £1bn British Army Challenger 2 tanks deal as Reeves fires up defence spending

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:05 GMT, 26 March 2025 Defence giant Babcock yesterday received a £1billion boost as ministers extended a contract to maintain [...]

Housing market set to slow after biggest price rise for two years

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 26 March 2025 The housing market is set to slow after the biggest price rise [...]

MARKET WATCH: Investors move out of Vistry as troubled housebuilder axes dividend

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 March 2025 Shares in troubled builder Vistry tumbled as profits slumped and it axed [...]

Business is fed up with Labour’s higher taxes and new workers’ rights, says CBI chief

By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 March 2025 Higher taxes and new rights for workers have left bosses ‘pretty p****d off’, according to the [...]

Stamp duty on shares to rake in £24bn over next five years – despite criticism it stifles investing in UK-listed firms

By RICHARD MARSDEN Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 March 2025 Stamp duty on shares is set to rake in nearly £24billion over the next five years [...]

NS&I boosts targets in Spring Statement but it’s still more likely to cut rates than boost them

By LEE BOYCE Updated: 16:03 GMT, 26 March 2025 National Savings and Investments has revealed a bumper net financing target of £12billion in the Spring [...]

Self-employed given harsher penalties for late tax payments in Spring Statement

VAT and Itsa taxpayers will see late payment fines given by HMRC increase By ANGHARAD CARRICK Updated: 14:23 GMT, 26 March 2025 More taxpayers will face [...]

Morrisons says it needs to save £1bn to deal with rising costs

By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 12:10 GMT, 26 March 2025 Morrisons has boosted its medium-term savings target to £1billion, as the supermarket faces growing costs and [...]

Spring Statement live updates: Rachel Reeves to unveil brutal welfare cuts as poll reveals damning verdict on Labour’s handling of economy

By JAMIE BULLEN and JAMES TAPSFIELD and DAVID WILCOCK and GREG HEFFER and SIMON LAMBERT FOR THIS IS MONEY Updated: 08:41 GMT, 26 March 2025 [...]

Boost for City as Smiths Group pledges to keep London listing – for now

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 25 March 2025 Smiths Group offered the City some lukewarm support yesterday by saying it [...]

Woodford probe delay lands FCA in hot water as 500,000 investors remain the dark over fund scandal

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:01 GMT, 25 March 2025 The City watchdog has come under fire over the Neil Woodford scandal as MPs and [...]