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• Sunday newspaper round-up: WM Morrison, BP, Barclays
  Sun 09 March 2014 10:14
  WM Morrison is preparing to announce aggressive price cuts and 500m pounds of property sales this week, the Sunday Times reported. The price cuts aim to take on Aldi and Lidl, the German chains whose prices have lured MM Morrison customers. The £500m of

• Friday newspaper round-up: Forex, Crimea, Barclays
  Fri 07 March 2014 06:58
  Robert de Groot, the head of foreign exchange trading at BNP Paribas, was suspended on Thursday. De Groot joined the Bank of England's chief dealers' group - a panel on which senior forex traders and Bank officials sit - in 2007. Said committee was thru

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Ukraine, Co-op, Rolls Royce
  Thu 06 March 2014 07:13
  Attempts to broker direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine's foreign ministers made little headway in Paris on Wednesday, although the US Secretary of State and Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs are due to meet again on Thursday, in Rome. In par

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: BP, Virgin Money, Bank bonuses
  Wed 05 March 2014 06:59
  Due to the volatility of American oil and gas prices shale producers need to be quick and nimble, adjusting their production higher or lower as a function of their commodity price forecasts. Unfortunately, such agility clashes with the predominant busines

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: BP, RBS, ECB
  Tue 04 March 2014 06:54
  The fifth appeals court of New Orleans ruled on Monday that BP will have to restart what the company terms "absurd" payouts to people and firms who were not even negatively impacted by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP had argued that a compensation c

• Monday newspaper round-up: Russia, Rolls Royce, Ladbrokes
  Mon 03 March 2014 07:30
  Europe's two biggest states were on the brink of armed conflict last night after Russia tightened its grip by surrounding Ukrainian military bases and President Putin defended the invasion as "an appropriate response". Ukraine warned that it was "on the b

• Sunday newspaper round-up: RBS, AO World, Tesco
  Sun 02 March 2014 10:52
  Royal Bank of Scotland is working on a plan to merge its troubled Ulster Bank arm with one of the Irish business's rivals, the Sunday Times reported. RBS is looking at merging Ulster Bank with banks such as Permanent TSB or the Irish arms of Danske Bank o

• Friday newspaper round-up: Crimea, Ofgem, Renminbi
  Fri 28 February 2014 08:16
  Russian soldiers have occupied two key airports in Ukraine's restive pro-Russia region of Crimea, Ukraine's acting interior minister said Friday. Soldiers wearing camouflage and bearing automatic weapons have taken up positions at Belbek Airport in Sevast

• Thursday newspaper round-up: RBS, Flotations, ITV
  Thu 27 February 2014 06:59
  Political pressure is growing on George Osborne to rein in pay at Royal Bank of Scotland as the taxpayer-controlled bank prepares to grant more than 500m pounds of bonuses while reporting an annual loss of as much as 8bn pounds and sacking thousands of st

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Tax-cuts, Tesco, Ukraine
  Wed 26 February 2014 06:50
  George Osborne, chancellor, is under pressure from Tory MPs to use next month's Budget to announce pre-election tax cuts to offset the prospect of a politically damaging rise in interest rates before polling day. One Tory MP said the idea of the Bank of E

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: HSBC, Fukushima, US defence cuts
  Tue 25 February 2014 06:17
  More than 600 senior bankers and star dealmakers at HSBC will be paid six or seven-figure 'allowances' designed to bypass the European Commission's crackdown on excessive bonuses. In some cases, the new payments will be bigger than base pay, with Stuart G

• Monday newspaper round-up: BP, G4S, RSA
  Mon 24 February 2014 06:48
  The future of BP's flagship Rumaila oilfield in southern Iraq is in jeopardy after a bureaucratic snarl-up in Baghdad forced the company to axe a hundred crucial contractor jobs. The move highlights the mounting challenges facing western oil majors i

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