News 30 June 2026 - 1 July 2026

Etihad Orders 10 Boeing Jets, Raising Talk of Hard-to-Get 787 Slots
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Etihad Orders 10 Boeing Jets, Raising Talk of Hard-to-Get 787 Slots

Etihad Airways is nearing a deal for 10 more Boeing 787 jets, according to people briefed on the matter. The order would boost the Abu Dhabi carrier’s long-haul fleet, as early slots for wide-body deliveries are tight. Wide-bodies are twin-aisle planes mostly used for international routes. Reuters said the deal might be unveiled at the July 20-24 Farnborough Airshow, but sources said talks are still ongoing. Etihad and Boeing both declined to comment. The warning is getting more airtime these days — investors are watching not just how many jets sell, but which airlines can actually secure deliveries fast enough to cash in.
July 9, 2026
Jade Road Investments stock rises as thin trading leaves Shaires below split-adjusted raise price
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Jade Road Investments stock rises as thin trading leaves Shaires below split-adjusted raise price

Jade Road Investments Limited, now trading as Shaires Holdings, rose again on Wednesday, but the stronger signal for investors was not the gain. It was the size of the tape. The AIM-listed investment company was last shown at $8.00, up 50 cents, or 6.67%, on delayed LSEG data at 13:50 BST. Volume was 500 shares, after 1,308 shares changed hands on Tuesday, when the stock closed at $7.50. That makes a two-session rise of 14.3% from Monday’s $7.00 close, on fewer than 2,000 shares. At the latest two close/last prices, that is about $13,800 of stock.
July 1, 2026
CMC Markets jumps after B2B upgrade, eyes on new margin baseline
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CMC Markets jumps after B2B upgrade, eyes on new margin baseline

CMC Markets shares were up sharply in London after the company rolled out a B2B upgrade seen as signalling a margin reset. CMC Markets Plc shares surged nearly 40% Wednesday after the UK trading group raised its FY2027 income outlook again—its second upgrade in a month. The new targets suggest profit from B2B deals could beat what the market was expecting.
July 1, 2026
Everest Global PLC stock: thin trading shows spread and debt issues
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Everest Global PLC stock: thin trading shows spread and debt issues

Everest Global PLC stayed deep in micro-cap range Wednesday, trading with a market cap under its reported cash, though its capital structure doesn’t offer a clear way to play a cash discount. The London Stock Exchange Main Market-listed firm, focused on food and beverage retail and distribution, last traded at 120p, holding flat for the day, according to London South East. Bid sat at 80p, with the ask at 160p, making for a 100% bid spread. The market cap was posted at £464,330. Two trades showed up: one for 579 shares at 80p, another for six shares at 145p, totalling £471.90.
July 1, 2026
Barclays gains on FTSE after £500m buyback priced below market

Barclays gains on FTSE after £500m buyback priced below market

Barclays PLC traded ahead of the London market on Wednesday after a new U.S. filing showed its latest £500 million buyback wiped out shares at prices under the market level. Shares last changed hands at 511.6p, rising 0.99% at 14:32 BST. Fifteen minutes later, the FTSE 100 was at 10,463.74, down 0.32%.
July 1, 2026
Shell stock falls as focus shifts to buybacks after $1.7B Gulf deal

Shell stock falls as focus shifts to buybacks after $1.7B Gulf deal

Shell Plc slipped in London on Wednesday. A $1.7 billion asset sale did bring some cash news, but it didn’t offset the drag from a buyback pause and softer crude. Shell’s page showed shares at 2,884.50 pence at 13:17 GMT; Hargreaves Lansdown quoted 2,879.50/2,880.00p, off 53p, or 1.81%. The FTSE 100 dropped 0.29% to 10,466.74, AJ Bell data showed. London’s session was running, with the market open from 0800 to 1630 local time. The key number here is what Shell is getting for older Gulf oil. Shell is selling its 50% non-operated in Na Kika and the full Coulomb tieback to Talos Energy Inc and Ridgewood Energy for $1.7 billion, subject to adjustments and contingent payouts. Shell says these assets
July 1, 2026
HSBC trades near recent high with August earnings in view
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HSBC trades near recent high with August earnings in view

HSBC Holdings Plc dipped 0.29% to 1,426.60p in London afternoon trade on Wednesday. That’s a pretty minor move, but shares are already close to their year high, and the latest median analyst target leaves just a small single-digit gain from here. The FTSE 100 lost 0.33% to 10,462.89. HSBC traded at 1,426.60p, down 2.0% from the 1,456p high for the year, but still up 64.5% from a 867.20p low. AJ Bell said the market cap is £244.50 billion, so a 1% swing equals about £2.45 billion in equity value.
July 1, 2026
Rolls-Royce soars after SAS engine win, putting buyback math in focus
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Rolls-Royce soars after SAS engine win, putting buyback math in focus

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc was up 1.44% at 1,465.40p by 13:40 BST on Wednesday, having traded about 4.4% under last week’s 52-week high of 1,532.60p. Google Finance showed its market cap at £122.37 billion. The key question for investors is shifting from whether the stock has room to rise to how much more of its own stock Rolls-Royce can buy back after this stretch. On Wednesday, the company reported it bought 4,007,376 shares between June 23 and June 29, paying an average of about 1,409p each, spending roughly £56.5 million in cash. Since rolling out the £2.3 billion buyback on Feb. 26, Rolls-Royce has snapped up 74,601,999 shares at an average price of 1,212.92p.
July 1, 2026
Student loan SAVE delay shifts investor focus to $485 billion forbearance pool
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Trump student-loan court calls check private lender gains as PSLF knocked down

WASHINGTON - Federal judges handed President Donald Trump two setbacks on his student-loan plans: public servants can still pursue loan forgiveness claims, and some graduate health students will for now keep access to higher federal loan limits. The key number is the $100,000 gap. Federal rules now set most grad borrowing at $100,000, but professional degrees can go as high as $200,000. Shifting a program to professional status cuts back the private-loan need after Grad PLUS borrowing ends for new students.
July 1, 2026
UK energy price cap goes up, investors eye gas bills and consumer credit
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UK energy price cap goes up, investors eye gas bills and consumer credit

UK household energy bills are climbing in July, pushed up mainly by gas. Unit rates for gas under Ofgem’s cap jumped 27.7% from Wednesday. That’s much sharper than the 5.8% rise for electricity. Centrica, which owns British Gas, and Iberdrola, parent of ScottishPower, both have more room to charge higher prices if the cap rises. But a higher cap could mean more customers fall behind on bills or push up bad debts and the chance of new tariff rules. Centrica owns British Gas. ScottishPower is under Iberdrola.
July 1, 2026
Lloyds ditches Halifax name after 173 years to focus on costs
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Lloyds ditches Halifax name after 173 years to focus on costs

Lloyds Banking Group will drop Halifax, the brand that started as a West Yorkshire building society in 1853, as it moves to simplify its business. Lloyds is trying a single retail-banking brand to see if it can squeeze more value from customers ahead of a strategy update scheduled for later this month. Lloyds said it is ending new Halifax accounts and will gradually shift current Halifax customers over. Starting early 2027, the 190 Halifax branches will have their signs taken down. Lloyds said no branches are closing directly from this move. Bank of Scotland will remain for Scottish customers.
July 1, 2026
FTSE 250 edges past FTSE 100 as CMC and defence names help offset commodity drop
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FTSE 250 edges past FTSE 100 as CMC and defence names help offset commodity drop

UK stocks split by size on Wednesday. The FTSE 100 finished 66.01 points lower at 10,431.11, near the session bottom of 10,429.17. The FTSE 250 put on 74.82 points to close at 23,088.27, shrugging off stronger gilt yields. Commodity exporters took the hit, with midcaps up on a sharp move in one trading-platform stock and a push in defence shares. The split is key since it complicates the idea that the “UK market” is just moving lower. FTSE 100 had just closed out its sixth straight quarterly gain, rising in 11 of the last 12 months. FTSE 250 posted its biggest quarterly jump in five quarters, Reuters said. Wednesday’s session looked more like a shift in sectors and earnings than
July 1, 2026
Aviva approaches June peak; Direct Line yield stays in view
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Aviva approaches June peak; Direct Line yield stays in view

Aviva plc finished Tuesday near the top of its June range, outpacing the broader market but still off the January high it hasn’t reclaimed. Shares settled at 650.20p, a gain of 1.09%. The FTSE 100 index added 0.12% to 10,497.12. Trading volume for Aviva was 6.37 million shares, below its average of 8.51 million, according to Google Finance. The London Stock Exchange was open for trading Tuesday from 0800 to 1630 local time. The 23:02 BST dateline is after the normal session. June 30 did not fall on a weekend or an exchange holiday, according to the LSE calendar.
July 1, 2026
J Sainsbury climbs as food lifts results while Argos underperforms
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J Sainsbury climbs as food lifts results while Argos underperforms

J Sainsbury plc shares moved up following its Q1 update. The main figure for investors wasn't the 2.1% drop in like-for-like sales. What mattered was the sales breakdown: grocery propped up the quarter, but Argos and the clothing division continued to weigh on revenue. Sainsbury shares finished at 319.20p/319.40p on Hargreaves Lansdown, up 4.00p, or 1.27% after the London close. The FTSE 100 on the same site was up 0.12%, prices showing at least a 15-minute delay.
July 1, 2026
NIOX Group gains 7% but trails last year’s 81p per share offer
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NIOX Group gains 7% but trails last year’s 81p per share offer

NIOX Group Plc ended Tuesday at 59.60 pence, up 4.00p, or 7.19%. Trading volume was 2.87 million shares. The company’s market value stood at roughly 250.7 million pounds, according to ADVFN. London’s market was already closed by reporting time. London Stock Exchange hours run 0800 to 1630. NIOX jumped, leading the small-cap market. The FTSE AIM All-Share closed at 772.17, rising 0.27%. The FTSE 100 finished up 0.12% at 10,497.12.
July 1, 2026
Union Jack Oil (LON:UJO) up after disclosures show 13% voting block days before Reabold (LON:RBD) deadline
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Union Jack Oil (LON:UJO) up after disclosures show 13% voting block days before Reabold (LON:RBD) deadline

Union Jack Oil Plc ended up 7.14% at 3.75p on Tuesday. New offer-period filings showed updated numbers on voting rights as Reabold Resources Plc faces a deadline to decide on a possible all-share offer. The thing to watch is how big the reported blocks are versus regular trading. TBI Investment Management Ltd told Union Jack it now has 6,182,691 voting rights, or 4.22%, after hitting the threshold on June 8. The TR-1 showed TBI was under 3% before.
July 1, 2026
SEGRO (LON:SGRO) stock ends above Prologis (NYSE:PLD) bid after U.S. drop
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SEGRO (LON:SGRO) stock ends above Prologis (NYSE:PLD) bid after U.S. drop

SEGRO plc finished Tuesday ahead of where Prologis Inc’s all-share proposal had valued the shares. Prologis stock fell, so the merger math weakened, putting more pressure on SEGRO to make its solo argument to shareholders. SEGRO finished the session at 875.20p, slipping 0.34%. The FTSE 100 index added 0.12% to close at 10,497.12. Prologis in New York dropped 2.46% to $135.47. Sterling was last at $1.3233, according to Reuters.
July 1, 2026
Ceres Power (CWR:LON) up 7%, but share sale still £129 mln short
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Ceres Power (CWR:LON) up 7%, but share sale still £129 mln short

Ceres Power Holdings plc climbed 35.30p to 509.50p on Tuesday, up 7.44% and leading Hargreaves Lansdown’s FTSE 250 risers list. The FTSE 250 closed at 23,013.45, off 1.40 points, or 0.01%. The daily climb wasn’t the main issue for holders. The bigger move came after this month’s equity raise. Ceres put the share count at 213.8 million in its latest notice. The stock keeps trading below the 570p price set for the placing, retail and director buyers.
June 30, 2026
Polar Capital (POLR) touches 52-week high as trading volume jumps before results
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Polar Capital (POLR) touches 52-week high as trading volume jumps before results

Polar Capital Holdings Plc jumped 8.0% Tuesday to 891p, hitting a new one-year high. The specialist fund manager outpaced the FTSE AIM 100, which added 0.22%. Shares touched 904p in the session, more than twice their 52-week low of 435p, ahead of full-year results set for Wednesday. The main takeaway from Tuesday’s session is that the rally outpaced the size of the buyback. The company picked up 17,000 shares at an average of 826.2244p each on June 29, for a total spend of about £140,458. That represented around 2.5% of Tuesday’s turnover, calculated from the 631,190 shares traded and the 891p close.
June 30, 2026
3i Group share price still trails FTSE as buyback math shows NAV discount
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3i Group share price still trails FTSE as buyback math shows NAV discount

3i Group plc slipped Tuesday, with shares finishing below both net asset value and the analyst NAV consensus the company released. That drop came even after more than 11 million shares were bought back. 3i shares were quoted at 2,486p, down 10p, or 0.4%, at 18:00 BST. Barclays data had the FTSE 100 up 0.12% and UK financials rising 1.01%. 3i trailed the market and sector for the session.
June 30, 2026
easyJet (LON:EZJ) drops as gap with Castlelake offer nears £700m
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easyJet (LON:EZJ) drops as gap with Castlelake offer nears £700m

easyJet plc dropped sharply Tuesday after brokers cut ratings, flagging risk that talks with Castlelake might fail. Shares ended down 4.05% at 558.4p, while the FTSE 250 Index slipped just 0.01%. Trading volume came in around 10.86 million, higher than Google Finance’s 8.41 million average. Shares finished the day well under Castlelake’s latest offer. The U.S. investor had bid 650p per share—about £4.93 billion, according to Reuters. At Tuesday’s close and with 758.01 million shares outstanding, the company was valued at roughly £694 million less than that. Some large shareholders want £7 a share, which would mean a market cap near £5.31 billion and put the gap close to £1.07 billion over Tuesday’s value.
June 30, 2026
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