Stellantis discontinues hydrogen fuel cell technology development programme
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Fantastic deals for teachers to take advantage of over the summer holidays
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Telegraph
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- Telegraph
LSE plots 24-hour trading to revive interest in shares
Shares in UK-listed companies could be traded 24 hours a day under radical plans from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to tap into booming demand from night owl traders. The LSEG, which owns the flagship London stock market, is accelerating plans to launch a 24-hour trading platform to boost the appeal of the gloomy UK market and encourage overseas investors and younger traders to buy British shares. Changing trading patterns in the US, where transactions are increasingly done outside of working hours by a new generation of Gen Z retail investors on smartphone apps, is leaving traditional bourses exposed. Cryptocurrency markets, such as Bitcoin trading, already trade around the clock and more people trade shares in the small hours on platforms like Robinhood, making traditional market hours increasingly anachronistic. London-listed shares currently only trade between 8am and 4pm. The LSEG declined to comment on the plan, first reported by the Financial Times, but chief executive David Schwimmer has made no secret of his desire to boost the London market. Mr Schwimmer has transformed LSEG into a data and technology giant to rival Bloomberg following a $27bn (£21bn) takeover of Refinitiv, with the stock exchange now accounting for just 3pc of the group's revenues. Britain's stock market is facing a crisis after shrinking trading volumes and a dearth of new listing. Recent tax raids by the Government and tariffs woes have also dented companies. According to figures released by EY on Monday, UK-listed companies issued 59 profit warnings during the second quarter of 2025, a 20pc rise compared to the same period last year. A shift to 24-hour trading would mirror strides in the US where so-called 'dark pools' – which are private exchanges where buyers and sellers meet in secret – have become increasingly popular ways to trade shares overnight. Some dark pools, such as Blue Ocean, allow for shares to be traded once US markets close and last year the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a licence for a new Bermuda-based trading platform 24X to offer out-of-hours trading. Mainstream US stock exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) have sought to keep pace with the developments by extending trading hours. The NYSE asked the SEC for permission to extend its trading window outside of its traditional 9:30pm to 4pm time earlier this year. However any move to extend trading hours is likely to face fierce criticism from conventional fund managers. They use the closing price of shares to set the value of their funds, with trillions of pounds dependent on the closing price. Round-the-clock trading would make setting prices even more difficult, while fund managers are likely to resist moves to monitor the market 24/7.
Times
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- Times
Marcus Rashford was Barcelona's plan C — but they could be perfect match
The first priority for Marcus Rashford once the formalities of his transfer to Barcelona, initially on loan from Manchester United, are complete will be to discard the label of 'plan C'. It was still attached to his luggage as he prepared to set off for Catalonia on Sunday. It is understood that Barcelona will pay the forward's £325,000-a-week wages. The loan deal includes an option to buy next summer. While Barcelona will be delighted to strengthen their prolific forward line with the England international, the deal comes after a series of unfulfilled forays into the transfer market. Rashford's enthusiasm for joining the Spanish champions proved far greater than that of their prime target Nico Williams, of Athletic Bilbao. His cost to Barcelona is considerably lower than the prohibitive price set by Liverpool for Luis Díaz. Those rebuffs — Williams flirted with Barça for a second successive summer and promptly signed a new contract with Bilbao — helped push Rashford from third choice as a forward reinforcement into pole position. All of which will be swiftly forgotten if Rashford quickly addresses Barcelona's concerns that a front three that last season scored 94 goals needs a deluxe back-up. If Rashford can show he is more than just cover for Raphinha, or at centre forward for Robert Lewandowski, who turns 37 next month — or for Lamine Yamal, whose 17-year-old body was burdened with 69 matches for club and country in 2024-25 — then he will have made a compelling case for Barcelona to activate their option with United to make his stay permanent for a fee understood to be set at less than €40million (£34.6million). In the meantime he must blot out the psychodramas that accompany every new recruit to Barcelona as the club present their arguments that adding another player to the upper end of the salary scale will not breach the restrictions of La Liga's Financial Fair Play rules. The club have rubbed up against these constraints consistently over the past two years. Only after an appeal to Spain's ministry of sport did Barcelona successfully register Dani Olmo in their squad during the previous transfer window. But for all that Barcelona are burdened by debts accumulated during a past period of promiscuous spending, the institution retains its special, seductive aura. The team also carry an optimism that can only be appealing to a gifted footballer seeking to reboot his career. Under Hansi Flick, a head coach entering his second season, Barcelona have become as watchable as any of Europe's super clubs. They were thrilling semi-finalists in the Champions League and swaggering winners of the Spanish title, through a domestic campaign that featured four defeats of Real Madrid, two of them in cup finals, in which Barcelona scored 16 times. If Rashford was plan C in the transfer strategy devised by the sporting director, Deco, back in May, he was always a plan that made sense for the Flick system, with its emphasis on width and maximising possession in the opposition half. This, as Ferran Torres, the 19-goal understudy to Lewandowski, would testify, is good company for a striker to be keeping. Last month Rashford spoke of his admiration for Yamal and the hope that he would have the opportunity to count the teenager as a team-mate. 'What he is doing at 17 is not normal,' he said. 'Of course everybody wants to play with the best. We'll see.' No forward with Rashford's characteristics would regard having a passer like Pedri in their midfield as anything but a blessing, either. Flick heard directly from Rashford, 27, that he wanted to move to Barcelona once it had become clear the United head coach, Ruben Amorim, no longer saw a future for the forward there, even after an encouraging five months on loan at Aston Villa from January. There will be opportunities at Barcelona, Rashford has been told. Even if the barrier to a starting place on the left of their attack is formidable — Raphinha has been exceptional, a candidate for the Ballon d'Or — there is an expectation that Yamal, because of his youth, and Lewandowski, because of his age, will need periods of rest. Raphinha's rise at Barcelona would also chime with Rashford. The Brazil player, 28, was signed from a club low in the Premier League table — in his case from 17th-placed Leeds United three summers ago, in Rashford's case 15th-placed United. Before his dazzling 2024-25 Raphinha also endured a pre-season in which Barça made it plain, through another unsuccessful pursuit of Bilbao's Williams, that they regarded Raphinha as merely a plan B to their ideal man for the left wing. Whoever has ownership of that flank will at some point be performing immediately beneath a towering grandstand, part of the 100,000-plus capacity Nou Camp, now nearing the end of its two-year renovation. This being Barcelona, it is still unclear how close to readiness the new arena is. The club had hoped to stage the traditional August curtain-raiser, for the Joan Gamper Trophy, at the Nou Camp, accommodating close to half its future capacity. That deadline will not be met. The club's opening three La Liga fixtures will be away matches to allow for the stadium to be functional for mid-September. The season's first Clásico takes place in late October, away to Real Madrid, a match with potentially more relevance for an England manager than any Clásico ever has. There's the possibility of Rashford, who won the most recent of his 62 caps in March, in a direct duel with Real's Trent Alexander-Arnold; of Jude Bellingham fully restored as a domineering presence in the Real midfield after his recuperation from last week's shoulder surgery. Club football's most famous fixture could be a showcase for English football's Generation Intrepid, animated by the most celebrated homegrown talents of Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. The last English striker to conquer Barcelona, Gary Lineker, posted his approval of the Rashford move alongside an image of both players in England No10 jerseys. Were Rashford to come anywhere near some of Lineker's mid-1980s numbers — 42 goals in 103 Liga matches — as a Barça forward, he will have leapt from plan C to plan A+. But were he to follow the last British forward to leave United for Barcelona, Mark Hughes — 28 Liga games, five goals — he would expect, like Hughes, to last just the one season. From Madrid, naturally, there has been some scepticism about their rivals' likely new recruit. 'When you sign a player under these circumstances [a loan] it's because either you haven't got enough money or because you have doubts about how well he will perform,' Real's former director of football, Predrag Mijatovic, told El Larguero. 'Rashford looked like he was going to be a true superstar, but he's had a very bad run since then.'
