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☀️Morning! Tuesday’s The Sun Business: Deliveroo takeover by Door Dash to be sealed this week after astonishing rollercoaster as a London listed firm. As M&S confirms online outage for a fifth day missed sales rack up. And sorry fellow parents - Paw Patrol coming to Chessington

Beautiful day in the City. I’m interviewing Clearpay founder Nick Molnar on stage at Innovate Finance Global summit shortly after midday. If you’re here say hello! #IFGS2025

Percy Pigs latest victim of M&S cyber attack by teen gang 🐷. Empty shelves - including some wines and beer too. M&S spokeswoman says that to manage the hack it took “some systems offline” resulting in “pockets of limited availability”. Stock isn’t coming to stores

☀️Morning! Wednesday’s The Sun Business: For once Primark wasn’t the story for ABF as conglomerate warned on profits & potential closure of bioethanol factory due to “wretched government policy”. Bakery business could also be spun off . And Gymshark feels the burn from Trump

Here's a 👀 datapoint. In January a whopping 67% of ALL UK exports to America were gold bars. Ponder that for a moment. 67% of EVERY PHYSICAL THING the UK exported to the US (by value) Totally unprecedented. Further evidence of the scale of gold outflows from Britain to America

Now this gang of cyber criminals are really taking the pigs! M&S cyber attack leads to empty shelves of Percy Pigs (and wine and beer and even Colin the Caterpillar). As one wag said “sh*t got real”. Enjoy this sad face Percy on The Sun front page 🐷😢 pic.x.com/g3lg1YYBcs

☀️Morning! Thursday’s The Sun Business guest edited by Alex Baldock, boss of Currys who calls on the government to not choose to make it “riskier, harder & more expensive” to hire people in its workers rights reforms when Britain is already grappling with a worklessness crisis.

M&S online still down but spokeswoman says on critical Percy issue: “Nothing will stop Percy! While he’s on most of our shelves, he’s very popular and we’re working hard to make sure he’s on shelf in every store 🐷”

Amazing day out of the office driving this Supacat Jackal. (Very much not in the City! )

Morning! Friday’s The Sun Business page: Britain’s richest self made woman Denise Coates in talks with bankers over potential sale of gambling biz Bet365 .

The Co-op has just said cyber criminals have managed to extract customer data including names, date of births and contact details. Not bank details or transaction history. It’s working with top spooks at NCSC and NCA but says malicious attack on systems still ongoing

☀️Morning! Wednesday’s The Sun Business: Use your loaf - Hovis and Kingsmill merger talks. Deliveroo founder shrugs off the market rollercoaster after agreeing a takeover by US rival that’s two thirds less than listing price and will net him £180m. Amazon loses £ on stake

Anyone wondering which “very interesting” piece prospective football regulator David Kogan is referring to in the DCMS grilling, it’s this one! cityam.com/how-league-one…

☀️Morning! Thursday’s The Sun Business - from my trip to Devon last week to see Supacat who let me have a go on their Jackal and have a stint as a welder.A different career path perhaps? Supacat boss says defence firms still battling ESG red tape despite government rush to rearm

“Big and highly respected” bumper news day: Bank of England expected to cut rates from 4.5% to 4.25% (will be 2mins after noon due to VE Day silence) And headline terms of a 🇺🇸🇬🇧trade deal expected at 3pm after Trump’s post last night.

Amazing gold bullion gets a mention as reason why UK has a trade surplus with US- in January alone £6.14 billion of gold was sent from UK to US (largely because investors wanted to get their hands on safe havens because Trump had made world so volatile)