A-Z of the Sunday newspapers

13 April 2012

THIS Is Money reads the Sunday papers so you don't have to. Here is this week's run-down of who is making the headlines on the City pages:

The Business

BAE: Shareholders in the UK's largest defence contractor have renewed calls for the resignation of chief executive Mike Turner and other board members ahead of the company's full-year results on 26 February.

Channel 4: Two of Britain's biggest network TV broadcasters, Channel 4 and Five, have been discussing plans to merge.

Dollar: Sterling is on course to reach the symbolic $2 level by this summer as the US greenback continues to slump.

Legal & General: L&G is considering launching a Japanese hedge fund, despite the firm's chief executive last year voicing strong opposition to short-selling, which is fundamental to almost all hedge funds.

Independent on Sunday

Call centres: Trade unions are stepping up their campaign against overseas outsourcing with a commission to investigate the costs to the UK economy and a consumer boycott of companies that have moved jobs to India.

Disney: Harvey Weinstein, chief executive of the film studio Miramax, is adding to the woes of Walt Disney chief Michael Eisner by saying he wants a divorce from the entertainment empire.

Eurotunnel: A consortium headed by US construction giant Bechtel is considering bailing out Eurotunnel by injecting £900m into the Channel Tunnel operator.

Parmalat: Deloitte, the accounting firm that audited the Italian food group's books, raised questions about the accounting used at the group's subsidiaries three and a half years before its spectacular collapse.

The Observer

Amec: The energy and construction group is confident of winning a key role in a $3.8 billion (£2 billion) contract to rebuild Iraq's dilapidated electricity generation and transmission system.

Manchester United: Insiders at the football club have admitted for the first time that a £900 million bid is possible within a few weeks.

Royal Bank of Scotland: RBS, headed by chief executive Fred Goodwin, will this week unveil the biggest profits ever recorded by a UK bank in a move that is expected to spark uproar from MPs and trade unions.

Shell: Angry Shell shareholders are to step up demands for a radical overhaul of the oil giant's antiquated structure by targeting the group's Dutch board.

Sunday Telegraph

Canary Wharf: Morgan Stanley, the US investment bank, is looking for partners to help it raise its bid for Canary Wharf to 293p and trump rival Brascan.

Economy: Britain's economic recovery may be hamstrung by excessive Government spending, according to the latest quarterly economic forecast from the British Chambers of Commerce.

Manchester United: Malcolm Glazer, the US billionaire who has built a 16.31% stake in Man United, is coming under pressure from the Takeover Panel to clarify his position on a bid for the club.

WM Morrison: The supermarket chain is drawing up plans to dispose of 132 Safeway stores when it completes the £3bn takeover of its rival.

Sunday Times

British Airways: BA chief executive Rod Eddington is to set the seal on his restructuring of the airline by revealing its troubled European network is breaking even for the first time in seven years.

Disney: Walt Disney‘s board is stepping up plans to find a new ruler to save the Magic Kingdom and fight off a $49 billion (£26 billion) hostile bid from Comcast, the US cable giant.

Securicor: The chief executive of Denmark‘s Group 4 Falck, Lars Norby Johansen, is expected to take the top position when the group merges with its quoted British security rival, Securicor.

Vodafone: The telecoms giant will have to pay close to £19 billion to win the auction for AT&T Wireless (AT&TW), the struggling American mobile company.

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