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Day: 25 March 2020

Chancellor's backing

Sunak to unveil support package for self-employed

Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak: complicated Chancellor Rishi Sunak will on Thursday announce a package of emergency measures to help prop up Britain’s five million self-employed workers though the coronavirus epidemic. His package ofRead More

Virus impact

Steel joins queue for support as fears grow for 20,000 shops

British Steel
Steelworkers jobs were saved earlier this month The steel industry has joined the queue of industries seeking secure support from the Government as falling demand leaves it once again onRead More

Stark warning

Economy ‘will take years to recover from virus’

Graeme Roy
Graeme Roy: unlike anything we have seen since World War II (pic: Terry Murden) Hopes that the coronavirus will have only a limited hit to the economy’s long-term productive capacityRead More

Wednesday Update

Daily Business Live: Bus firms get funds; Prince has virus

Stagecoach
4.45pm: Markets, FTSE surges The FTSE100 resumed its upward surge, closing at 5,688.20, up 242.19 points (4.45%). Wall Street also continued its rebound. The Dow Jones closed 495.64 (2.39%) higher. Full report hereRead More

Commons exchange

Johnson: ‘We will do what we can to protect self-employed’

Boris Johnson: hardship Boris Johnson today told MPs that the government would do “whatever we can to support the self-employed” during the coronavirus crisis, but said he could not promiseRead More

Markets rocket

FTSE extends rally after Dow Jones’ biggest jump since 1933

Traders on Wall St (pic: NYSE)
Wall Street rocketed on hopes of stimulus London continued to surge higher today, building on overnight gains in Asia and a return of buyers on Wall Street. The FTSE 100Read More

Director buys

Foley and Daniels buy M&G shares on the dip

John Foley
John Foley: profit on shares (pic: Terry Murden) M&G chief executive John Foley and chief investment officer Jonathan Daniels have each paid more than £166,000 for shares in the businessRead More

Prince Charles has tested positive for Covid-19, Clarence House has confirmed (See Daily Business Live)

Some titles stop printing

Herald and Scotsman owners facing cost pressures

Herald and Scotsman newspapers
Paid titles are taking a hit and free papers being axed Scotland’s newspaper owners are coming under increasing pressure to cut costs as advertising melts away and deliveries become logisticallyRead More

MPs' business halted

Parliament to shut down for at least a month

Ian Blackford ahead of Commons walkout 13 June
The Commons will be suspended Westminster will go into recess tonight, a week earlier than normal and with no certainty about when MPs will return. Parliament was due to closeRead More