By: Ali Lyon

Graduate reporter Ali is a freelance business journalist interning at City A.M. He is currently studying for a master's degree in newspaper journalism at City, University of London, and has previously worked with the environmental newsroom DeSmog.

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City AM’s 10 stock picks for 2026

Markets

2025 was a rollercoaster year for the stock market. Equity indices fell off a cliff in April when the unveiling of US president Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs spooked investors and triggered a widespread sell-off. They have since made a strong recovery, helped along by enthusiasm for the innovative potential of AI and the stocks [...]
Labour U-turns on workers’ rights manifesto pledge

News

The government has reversed its contentious plans to hand all new staff protection from unfair dismissal from day one, after months of warnings about the workers’ rights package from industry and fierce political resistance from the House of Lords. Under revised proposals announced by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) on Thursday, the protection [...]
Brain drain latest: Brits quitting UK three times faster than thought

Economics

Fears that the UK is in the grips of a ‘brain drain’ escalated on Tuesday after fresh data revealed that than three times as many British nationals left the UK last year than officials previously thought. According to revisions made by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 257,000 Britons left the UK in 2024, over [...]

Supermarkets call on Chancellor to ‘bring inflation to heel’

October 27, 2025

Britain’s largest supermarkets have called on Rachel Reeves to exclude all shops from upcoming changes to to business rates, warning that any hikes to their input costs would further stoke food inflation that is already at over double the Bank of England’s target. In an open letter to the Chancellor, bosses from the UK’s nine [...]
Poppy Gustafsson resigns as investment minister

September 5, 2025

UK investment minister Baroness Poppy Gustafsson is stepping down less than a year after the former boss of cyber security firm Darktrace was appointed to the role by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Gustafsson is understood to be leaving to spend more time with her young family, with the announcement due in the next few days. [...]
Exclusive: Revolut, Octopus mull joining Pisces

July 2, 2025

Revolut, Octopus and Oaknorth are among billion-pound businesses weighing joining the new Pisces private stock market after being courted by prospective operator London Stock Exchange Group, City AM can reveal. The fast-growing firms were part of a group of around two dozen major businesses who attended a private conference hosted by LSE boss Julia Hoggett [...]
UK ambassadors to have growth ‘KPIs’, foreign secretary tells trade summit

March 21, 2025

The UK’s ambassadors will have “KPIs that contribute to our economic growth” as diplomats shift to a more economic mindset, the foreign secretary has said. David Lammy told an audience of businesses that he wants the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to become the “international delivery arm of the government’s missions, the first of [...]
The best books of 2024: From Sally Rooney to Boris Johnson

December 12, 2024

Okay, that headline is ever-so-slightly misleading – while many of the entries on this list are indeed among the best books of 2024, others earn their place by virtue of being emblematic of their time (Boris Unleashed), zeitgeist-capturing (Bad Girls of Ancient Greece) or simply so utterly bonkers we felt they earned a spot (The [...]
Retail chief Dickinson warns that food price rises are on the horizon

August 5, 2024

Helen Dickinson OBE, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said leading indicators in the commodity market mean another bout of food inflation in the next six months looked likely.
Behind the companies turning goals into gold at Euro 2024

July 17, 2024

England may have fallen at the final hurdle, but Ali Lyon says advertising agencies and broadcasters enjoyed a very fruitful tournament at Euro 2024 Adidas’s flagship advert for this year’s European Championships had all the raw ingredients to pluck on the archetypal England fan’s heartstrings effectively. In Jude Bellingham it had a protagonist who was [...]

Three sport law disputes to watch for in 2026

Why Squad Cost Ratio rules can’t afford to ruin joy of Premier League

The 13 unmissable TV shows to watch in 2026, from Industry to Bridgerton

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