Weekly Trading Update

Weekend Paper Roundup 15/08/2016



Financial Times
- UK businesses upbeat as weak pound triggers mini tourism boom
- ITV rebuffed in £1 billion move for Peppa Pig-owner Entertainment One
- Deutsche Bank pays price for squawk box failings
- Bumpy week for Tesla after latest driverless collision
- BT and Sky braced for costly Premier League clash

The Wall Street Journal
- Arianna Huffington to leave Huffington Post
- Google VC chief Bill Maris to depart
- Small UK firms less wary of Brexit
- How ESPN could rebound amid cable cutting
- US companies slow to adopt European Data Transfer Agreement

The Guardian
- Sports Direct: large shareholders may vote against chair at AGM
- London set to bear brunt of post-Brexit vote downturn, say experts
- Data on staff at 280 UK firms may be at risk after Sage breach
- BHS shuts doors on flagship Oxford Street store for last time
- Deliveroo told it must pay workers minimum wage

The Telegraph
- German savers hit by negative interest rates
- Aviva exec Andy Briggs: ‘we never lost sleep over our Brexit crash’
- Britain’s vast national gamble on wind power may yet pay off
- MPs to grill top bosses over foreign takeovers
- Supermarket sales fall below £100 billion in price war

The Times
- May given legal get-out to pull plug on Hinkley nuclear plant
- Anglo American pressed to break up £12 billion empire
- Misys eyes £5.5 billion return to City
- Carney eases cash rules for challengers
- Bank cut rate to ‘ward off jobs meltdown’

Daily Mail
- BHP Billiton set for a record £5 billion loss after collapse in commodity prices
- Supermarkets’ poor performance weighs on sales and profits of the UK’s 350 biggest companies
- M&S cottons on to revival of British textiles industry
- BoE’s Haldane says central bank’s policy moves only offer ‘short term balm’ for post-Brexit volatility
- Brexit worries and summer holiday slowdown see average house price fall £3602 in August


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