Weekly Trading Update

Weekend Paper Roundup 20/07/2015



Financial Times
- Founding family tightens grip on Samsung with takeover victory
- Boeing landed with extra $536 million for tanker
- UK joins probe of Deutsche Bank’s Moscow activities
- Intel warns of delay to next semi-conductor generation
- Regulators approve IAG’s €1.4 billion Aer Lingus takeover

The Wall Street Journal
- New record for NASDAQ shares
- Google gains $65 billion in a day
- Growth starved investors bid up tech shares
- Despite Beijing’s big push, investors remain wary
- Wal-Mart’s whining because Amazon’s winning, analyst says

The Guardian
- Weapons giant Lockheed Martin agrees to buy Black Hawk maker for $8 billion
- Banks face ‘uphill battle’ to ringfence high street operations, experts warn
- Greek reforms will fail, says ex-finance minister Yanis Varoufakis
- Don’t expect saving rates to rise, savers told
- Labour think tank says party conference must address nation’s rising inequality

The Daily Telegraph
- Travelodge owners hire Deutsche Bank for sale
- Barclays ‘planning to slash workforce’
- Commodities crash could turn Australia into a new Greece
- Standard Chartered unveils management shake-up to restore fortunes
- Seakbrook Crisps tickles Lloyd’s tastebuds in £35 million deal

The Times
- Osborne warned over ‘risky’ bet on private sector
- BAE starts search for new chief executive
- Afren on brink as bonds are suspended
- BT takeover a threat to rivals, says watchdog
- Daily Mail reports bad news on ads

Daily Mail
- More than 270 business leaders urge David Cameron to give go-ahead to third runway at Heathrow
- Ikea staff in line for wages boost after firm declares it will pay living wage
- Royal Bank of Scotland to unveil loss ahead of first sale of Treasury stake
- Marks & Spencer board lose battle to talk womenswear boss John Dixon into staying
- UK food companies ‘on brink’ as supermarkets price wards leave many suppliers struggling to survive

The Independent
- Top City watchdog Martin Wheatley is forced out by the Chancellor
- Electric car tycoons settle charging point legal battle
- Ferrari recalls cars over airbag fault
- Holidaymakers in Greece warned of imminent VAT rise
- Can Apple Pay overcome security concerns and transform contactless payment in the UK?


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