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:

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SUNDAY TIMES

Carlton/Granada: The City‘s most respected fund manager, Anthony Bolton, is behind a secret attempt to replace both Michael Green and Charles Allen once Carlton and Granada have merged to form a single ITV company

HBOS: Peter Cummings is to cement his reputation as banker to the entrepreneurial superstars after it emerged this weekend that his bank, HBOS, is behind one of the biggest management buyouts of the year.

Interest rates: Rates are heading lower, analysts say, because of continued weak economic growth and the switch to a new inflation target later this year. Rates are now expected to bottom at 3%.

Royal Mail: The head of Germany‘s postal giant, Deutsche Post, has attacked Royal Mail and Postcomm, the industry regulator, for stalling on the opening up of the UK network.

Tottenham Hotspur: THE Premier League football side is preparing a £15m share issue to boost the transfer budget of Glenn Hoddle, its manager.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

BskyB: The satellite broadcaster has made an audacious bid to secure exclusive rights to all live Premier League football games and some re-runs for the 2004 to 2007 seasons.

Hays: The support services and outsourcing group will announce this week the sale of its document storage business for £200m to Mentmore, the property group, and Iron Mountain.

IPO: Le Monde, the newspaper of the French elite and one of the most influential publications in Europe, is preparing a stock market flotation to raise £70m.

Publicis: Maurice Levy, the chief executive of Publicis, yesterday opened the door to a last-minute deal with Active Value that could undermine Sir Martin Sorrell's campaign to buy Cordiant.

Thales: The French defence and aerospace group has put its telecoms maintenance business up for sale with a price tag of up to £200m.

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THE OBSERVER

BNFL: British Nuclear Fuels is to come under pressure to sell its American businesses following the Government's decision to scrap the part-privatisation of the group.

GE Capital: Fraud Squad detectives have raided a major City haulage firm following a complaint from GE Capital, which claims it has been tricked out of as much as £25 million.

Glaxo: Far from taking a pay cut, GlaxoSmithKline chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier could win a big pay increase following negotiations on his salary, according to investors involved in the talks.

Meridien: The Meridien hotel chain could be repossessed by its landlord, the Royal Bank of Scotland, after a last-ditch rescue package by Lehman Brothers appeared to collapse last night.

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INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

BAT: British American Tobacco is to face pressure to pull out of its investment in Uzbekistan, the former Soviet state strongly criticised for its human rights record.

BAA: Airports operator BAA will tomorrow urge the Government to introduce a radical new system of charging airlines for their contribution to global warming.

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THE BUSINESS

Euro: Japan's economy is on course to grow faster than the eurozone this year, for the first time since the laucnh of the single currency.

Reckitt Benckiser: The Anglo-Dutch household products group is considering a bid for SSL International, the consumer healthcare group and maker of Durex condoms.

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