A to Z of the Sunday newspapers

This Is Money13 April 2012
ERE is This is Money's round-up of some of the bigger stories from the Sunday business sections.

Independent on Sunday

Deutsche Borse
Deutsche B?rse's £1.3bn bid for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is on the verge of collapse after divisions emerged on the group's supervisory board and investors opposing the offer bought millions of shares in a move to block it.

M&S
Fears are growing that trading at Marks & Spencer is deteriorating after the high-street giant began slashing prices.

Carlyle
A US private equity group with close links to the Bush administration is mulling a £450m bid for DML, the company that refits Britain's fleet of nuclear submarines.

GNER
GNER is set to win the bid battle for the lucrative East Coast mainline rail franchise after offering to pay the Treasury nearly £1bn.

The Observer

Rover
Chinese carmaker Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation is committing itself to pay only a further £130m to seal its proposed deal with MG Rover, according to sources close to negotiations. This is a fraction of the £1 billion that had been expected.

HSBC
HSBC will reveal that it made profits last year of about $18bn (£9bn), up 40% on 2003 and the highest recorded by a British bank.

El Tel
Terry Venables has emerged as an unlikely potential witness in a Serious Fraud Office investigation into a huge suspected investment scam.

White Nile
The future of White Nile, London's most explosive flotation since the dotcom boom, is in further doubt this weekend after the Sudanese government made clear it is entitled to nearly half of any oil revenues from the newly autonomous southern region.

Sunday Telegraph

Deutsche Borse
The famous father of one of the leading rebel shareholders in Deutsche B?rse is being lined up to become chairman of the German stock exchange operator's supervisory board.

Supermarkets v. FSA
Britain's top three supermarkets - Tesco, J Sainsbury and Asda - have rounded on the Food Standards Agency and accused it of sloppy management over the ongoing Sudan 1 scare.

Eurotunnel
A director of Eurotunnel, the beleaguered owner of the channel tunnel, last week called on the British and French governments to write off its £6bn of borrowings.

iTouch
The listed media and telephone services company, iTouch, has retained the contract to provide Channel 4, the broadcaster, with systems that allow viewers of shows such as Celebrity Big Brother to vote to eject contestants and enter competitions.

EDS
The world's second-largest computer services group, EDS, has edged ahead in the race to win the £4bn contract to overhaul the computer systems of the Ministry of Defence, which will be the world's largest single information technology contract.

Sunday Times

Pearson
Lord Stevenson is preparing to step down as chairman of Pearson, the FTSE 100 education, media and publishing company. Pearson, which reports its 2004 results tomorrow, has headhunters working to find a successor to Stevenson, who joined as a non-executive director in 1986 and moved up to the chairman's office in 1997.

Red tape
The red-tape burden on British business adds up to £40bn since Labour came to power, the British Chambers of Commerce will say this week.

M&S v. Next
Stuart Rose, chief executive of Marks & Spencer, is planning an £85m price-cutting campaign to target Next, its high-street rival. M&S's move to gear up for a price war comes as retailers report dismal high-street trading in recent weeks: with shoppers shunning their stores.

Rate hike
The base rate is set to rise in May, just days after the expected general election, according to a survey of analysts for The Sunday Times.

Post Office pensions
Credit Suisse First Boston, the investment bank, has been hired to advise Royal Mail on how to tackle the £2.5bn deficit in its pension fund.

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