Weekly Trading Update

Weekend Paper Roundup 28/04/2015



The Wall Street Journal
- Fed rule making has insurers on edge
- Time Warner cable advisor approaches rival
- China guides yuan higher
- Nigerian oil audit shows $19 billion never made it to government accounts
- Cyprus eyes possible new CIB bond 

The Independent
- Volkswagen head Piech loses power struggle with Winterkorn
- British arms firms forced to improve ethics
- North-South gap widens in personal insolvencies
- Deutsche Bank tops table of wrongdoers with $2.5 billion Libor fines
- Take That could take 2 years to pay back £20 million in tax 

The Guardian
- Vinci Construction investigated over Qatar forced labour claims
- Britain’s wealthiest double net worth since crisis
- Abercrombie & Fitch embrace death of sexualised dress code
- Far more NHS contracts going to private firms than ministers admit, figures show
- Britain’s craft boom produces new model artisan army

Financial Times
- Commodity chiefs upbeat at FT conference
- Block trades find favour in Asia
- Hedge funds short UK asset managers
- Wasps rugby club launches bond issue
- Gulf states feel pinch as prices stay low

The Daily Telegraph
- EE sales fall despite 4G and bundling growth
- TalkTalk raises broadband prices up to 43% as it focuses on mobile growth
- Holidaymakers warned to take cash to Greece amid financial collapse fears
- Playtech founder to sell 10% of stake
- RBS sells another American loan portfolio to Japanese lander

The Times
- Labour will bring back rent controls
- Mansion buyers demand ‘Miliband price cut’
- Mortgages ‘will rise £1000 with Labour’

Daily Mail
- Brexit is a handy HSBC smokescreen
- Funds still stocking up on Britain’s grocers
- Software group WANdisco’s party could be about to start as notable clients join line-up
- Inquiry into supermarkets’ discounting practices is not worth a bean
- ‘Hound of Hounslow’ forced to play odds in the US justice system


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