Weekend Paper Roundup

Weekend Paper Roundup 25.03.19



Financial Times
- May survives but struggles to win over Brexit rebels
- Private equity consortium to buy Immarsat for $3.4 billion
- Brussels faces clash with US over Huawei 5G plan
- Dovish rates policy fails to lift investors’ gloom
- Proposal to ace US quarterly reporting gets tepid reception

The Guardian
- Apple’s crown is slipping – will news and TV shows be its next big thing?
- Cashless Britain: over-55s and low earners at risk of being left behind
- RBS to wind down £1 billion worth of contentious local council loans
- Frank Field demands action on ‘rampant injustice’ in the gig economy
- Autonomy founder Mike Lynch faces UK high court and fresh charges in US

The Telegraph
- ‘Alarm bells’ as confidence falls in finance services sector
- Uber closes in on $3 billion takeover of Middle East rival Careem
- ‘Emphatic’ assets rally sucks volatility out of markets
- Top bosses forced into pensions climbdown
- Nokia warns of ‘compliance issues’ at Alcatel-Lucent business

The Times
- Shell’s power play turns up the heat on Big Six
- Pensions cut at Centrica as anger at perks grow
- Tesco ‘misled suppler’ over Irish stores
- Hong Kong calls for crackdown on Northern Powerhouse failures
- Fed’s switch on interest rates seen as admission of failure

Daily Mail
- Dixon Carphone is off the hook in row with mobile networks as it signs landmark agreement
- M&S’s £12 billion goal to overtake Waitrose: stores chain could double food business
- Debenhams plans to scrap leases in ploy to leave Ashley steaming in Miami
- Corporate raider Melrose quietly drops its executive pay adviser Deloitte
- Wall of FTSE 100 firms set to reward shareholders with dividend payments

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