Weekly Trading Update

Weekend Paper Roundup 23/03/2015



The Wall Street Journal
- Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton face frank questions
- India won’t pick up China’s oil slack
- Big Pharma’s unfamiliar biosimilar threat
- Mobius seeks emerging markets growth in Japan

The Independent
- Network Rail may sell off telecoms rights
- Subscription costs to rise after Sky’s £4.2 billion bet on football rights
- Next chief says raising wages would reduce employment opportunities
- Household debt soars by 9% to hit a record £239 billion
- ‘I won’t be bullied’ says Alliance Trust’s Garrett-Cox

The Guardian
- Aldi outstrips supermarket rivals with store expansion
- Shell oil drilling in Artic to get US government permission
- China’s growing support to lead multilateral lending bank worries US
- Aer Lingus, Jet2 and Wizz Air to face legal action over flight delays
- Virgin Care among firms with lucrative NHS deal and a tax haven status

Financial Times
- BlackRock World Mining sorry for terrible year
- Pensions guidance helpline not ready as clock ticks down to reform launch
- Capital’s changing face boosts Labour hopes
- Holcim-Lafarge €41 billion union back on track
- Universal presses Spotify to change model

The Daily Telegraph
- UKAR could lose a third of its staff after Osborne’s asset sale
- Brits prefer Greggs to Starbucks for their caffeine hit
- Chinese billionaires in takeover battle for Center Parcs
- Halfords reveals McDonald’s UK chief as new boss
- Balfour Beatty expected to report huge losses and suspend dividend

Daily Mail
- Associated British Ports embroiled in bidding wars as buyers race to buy a stake
- Insider trading and market manipulation up 24% in a year, new research suggests
- TSB’s new owner Banco Sabadell pledges to support small and medium-sized firms’ exports
- New BHS owner seeks to reassure suppliers and credit insurers that store is in safe hands
- Asda staging major push in south with plans to open 150 more stores by 2018

The Times
- Inflation to hit zero as Bank mulls rate cut
- Dell backer eyes Tesco Clubcard firm
- Gulf Keystone to kick off rights issue as bidders circle
- Flybe ditches new London route
- ‘Tell Sid’ – Treasury plans for Lloyds sale


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