Weekly Trading Update

Weekend Paper Roundup 14/12/2015



Financial Times
- Amazon aims to go it alone with deliveries
- Fosun chairman’s woes cast cloud over European deals
- Dow Chemical and DuPont agree $130 billion tie-up and split
- South African state fund lifts Lonmin stake as rights issue struggles
- Anglo investors fear chief’s shake-up plan falls short

The Wall Street Journal
- Renault weights deal with France
- Baidu plans to develop autonomous cars
- Tobacco companies fight new UK curbs
- Rio Tinto sidesteps many of rivals’ ills
- Apple, Google gain a software edge in cars

The Guardian
- Tsipras expecting protest after Greece paves way for further privatisations
- Markets in fragile mood as Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates
- Royal Bank of Scotland under fire over dormant accounts
- UK pushing for limits on air pollution to be relaxed, documents reveal
- Banks trumpet bumper year of ‘elephant’ takeover deals

The Telegraph
- Shell merger with BG Group gets green light from China
- Pearson is a lesson in how tough the education sector really is
- Hacking is the biggest threat to British business
- UK business confidence slips to lowest in more than a year
- Sabadell rules out buying more banks in blow to challengers

The Times
- Wall Street fund shutdown sparks fears of bond market crisis
- Ailing Debenhams makes it easier for bosses to bag bonuses
- Facebook’s double Irish tax wheeze
- Gloom defied as Waitrose expands
- Russian billionaire swoops on struggling Hambro gold miner

Daily Mail
- Profits set to soar as Dixons Carphone looks across Atlantic
- US activist shareholder ValueAct ramps up bid for seat on Rolls-Royce’s board
- Publisher of Guardian newspaper to axe jobs as it heads for £40 million loss
- Britain in for export boost as the Fed is poised to raise US interest rates
- John Lewis invests £500 million online as it predicts internet sales will overtake stores in 4 years

The Independent
- MPs call for action against auditor over HBOS fiasco
- Extreme weather is threatening more and more firms
- Firms with a Royal warrant accused of using tax havens
- New IT glitch hits RBS’s long-suffering customers
- PwC veteran’s new role at regulator questioned


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