Ashley Armstrong
aarmstrongsays.bsky.social
Ashley Armstrong
@aarmstrongsays.bsky.social
Business Editor - The Sun.

Former Retail and M&A Editor at The Times and The Daily & Sunday Telegraph.
As more than $2 trillion wiped off markets BOG OFF TRUMP!
Friday’s The Sun front page.

UK now considering retaliatory tariffs on everything from loo seats,to combs, vacuum cleaners, bourbon.

(You know it’s a biggie when The Sun has a splash on markets…)
April 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Morning! @TheSun Business Excl: Unilever’s boss is bagging £763,00 just to move house as “relocation benefits” for chief executives become a growing way to swell bumper pay packages.
The perk - in addition to £1.5m base salary & potential £9m in awards - works out at £222 a mile💸
March 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Come to the Sun for the puns, stay for the commodity takes:

London’s vaults of silver bars have dramatically dropped to decade low after scramble by US traders has seen thousands of tonnes flown out of Heathrow

2,211 tonnes outflow between Dec & Jan and sell off is speeding up amid tariff threat
February 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A wonderful night! The latest Women in Business Journalism drinks. 🍸

Thank you to everyone who came -it was great to see lots of catching up and meeting new faces!

As Baroness Patience Wheatcroft said there wasn’t a room like this 20+years ago. But there is now!
February 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The boss of cigs giant British American Tobacco doesn’t smoke or vape he told me.

Shares up in smoke for different reasons.
February 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey gets a quizzing in The Sun on rates, mortgage costs, sticking to 2% inflation target, Trump & growth. (With Bailey as you haven’t seen him before)

www.thesun.co.uk/money/332388...
February 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
In the paper & online video today. Our own economic forum on how to get Britain growing.
The everyday businesses I spoke to say government doesn’t understand business and the Budget has made it so much harder to grow.

www.thesun.co.uk/money/329341...
January 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Billionaires & business leaders are jetting into Davos for the annual jamboree on how to fix the world’s problems. But it’s so detached from the real world.
So off I went to Davos.
Well - Davos Way, Skegness!
For a reality check on the issues facing the economy & ordinary Brits
January 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM