Weekly Trading Update

Weekend Paper Roundup 18/04/2016



Financial Times
- Mothercare unlikely to deliver overdue growth spurt for investors
- Hopes rise for Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs results
- Freight transport buoyed by oil price, harmed by refugee crisis
- Uber looms over the parcel delivery business
- Brexit doubts slow UK business activity

The Wall Street Journal
- Mexican finance minister vows to defend peso
- Greece’s creditors weight extra austerity measures
- Emerging markets get surprise lift
- Netflix fans ignore worrying plot twist
- Chinese lender’s woes expose its global tentacles

The Guardian
- Oil producers fail to agree deal to freeze output after Saudi-Iran standoff
- China finance minister calls Trump ‘irrational type’ after trade proposal
- Boots could face regulator’s investigation after Guardian report
- IMF urges more spending to boost growth
- RBS pulls back fossil fuel investments as green deals grow

The Telegraph
- BHP Billiton boss warns Brexit will lead to ‘decade’ of trade negotiations
- IMF to launch information sharing plan as world clampdown on tax avoidance begins
- Hinkley Point will go ahead, sys French minister Macron
- China could be stabilising as stimulus efforts pay off
- Shares in UK housebuilders are the biggest value trap the market has ever created

Daily Mail
- Hollywood deal gives Sky first dibs on latest film releases over competitors
- Shareholders urged to stand their ground on fat cat pay after recent rebellions
- Shell and Scottish Power guilty of energy fraud and market manipulation in the US
- Farmers expected to endorse staying in EU as exports to Europe are ‘significant’
- Shard profits fall for third year running amid fewer visitors

The Independent
- Vodafone, EE and Lebara rated worst mobile phone providers
- UK joins with Germany, France, Italy and Spain in tax crackdown
- Bank of England issues starkest Brexit warning yet
- Lloyds Bank warns leaving the EU would cause economic uncertainty
- BP shareholders vote against chief executive Dudley’s £14 million pay deal


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