The Bank Got Dovish. London Got Lighter. Britain Got the Bill.

The Macro Work

This week, the rate trade flipped — and Britain's borrowing tab kept climbing. Interest Rates to Hold at 3.75% as Inflation Climbs took stock of the BoE's hold and the two-hawk split inside the MPC. Nationwide's Mortgage Rate Cuts: Second in 7 Days got ahead of the move entirely — the lender cutting twice before Threadneedle Street even budged. UK Unemployment Drops, But the Jobs Market Cracks shone a light on the 4.9% headline that hides a cracking jobs market — vacancies down 19,000, payrolls at a five-year low. UK Interest Rates: Next Move Down, Not Up made the case for the dovish pivot, with a chorus of economists now expecting a cut rather than a hike. UK Retail Sales Jump 1.2% as Heatwave Hits circled the heatwave bounce as Brits flocked to the high street — though groceries still fell, so the lift may not last. And Why UK Government Borrowing Spells Tax Pain Ahead laid out May's £23.3bn print and the record debt-interest line — fiscal strain pointing straight at autumn tax pain.

The Corporate Calls

On the corporate desk, the global tape ran on while London quietly lost another name. Another FTSE 100 Giant Falls: Intertek's Takeover panned across the £10.6bn EQT deal at £60 a share — the latest blue-chip name lost from London to private equity. Asian Stocks Roar Back From Last Week's Halt lit up the session, with record highs after a US-Iran deal cut oil prices and SpaceX's IPO lifted tech. Rolls-Royce Shares Ride the Nuclear Renaissance punched out a ~4% lift to 1,353.60p as the SMR arm landed Sweden's first new nuclear plants in 40 years. Manchester United's Brand Lands Record Amazon Deal carved out a record eight-figure fee for the All Or Nothing series — more than the £10m Arsenal, Spurs and City each banked. Is Marvell Stock the Next $1 Trillion Giant? pitched in on the AI optical chipmaker's S&P 500 entry, with Nvidia's CEO floating the trillion-dollar call. And Why the Crypto Fear and Greed Index Is Your Friend read between the lines on the index stuck at 24 — extreme fear, a contrarian's signal not a panic one.

The Bank got dovish. London got lighter. Britain got the bill. Now to the rest of the issue…

Someone has to pay for the Iran war — and the bill just landed on the Treasury‘s desk. UK government borrowing jumped to £23.3bn in May, billions above what the official forecasters expected, with the interest on the national debt hitting a record high for the month. Here’s the uncomfortable part: with the Chancellor’s fiscal rules creaking, that gap has to be closed somehow. And the usual answer is your taxes.

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Forget jet engines — Rolls-Royce (LON: RR)’s hottest new export is nuclear reactors. Once a byword for British industrial decline, the FTSE 100 group has just sold Sweden its first new nuclear plants in over 40 years, and the market loved it: the Rolls-Royce share price surged nearly 4% to 1,353.60 on Monday. This is no one-off — it’s proof the engineer has reinvented itself as a front-runner in the global nuclear renaissance.

Green screens, jittery nerves. European stocks edged higher on Friday, with the STOXX 600 up 0.2% — but look at what’s leading the charge and the optimism starts to wobble. Investors are piling into safer healthcare and energy names, not betting boldly on growth. The trigger? US-Iran peace talks just stalled, with the US vice-president scrapping his trip. This is a market rising out of caution, not confidence.

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The best time to buy crypto feels terrible — and that’s exactly when you should pay attention. When everyone’s sure Bitcoin is heading to zero, the patient money starts buying. There’s even a gauge for that mood: the Crypto Fear and Greed Index, stuck at a jittery 24. It won’t tell you what to buy, but used well it’s a mirror — showing when the crowd has lost its head, so you don’t lose yours.

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