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• Thursday newspaper round-up: Goldman Sachs, Autumn Statement, Shipping
  Thu 05 December 2013 07:34
  Goldman Sachs would "drastically reduce" its activities in London and move large numbers of jobs to Frankfurt and Paris if Britain left the European Union, the bank's co-chief executive in Europe has said. Michael Sherwood, who has warned in the past that

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Brussels, BP, GlaxoSmithKline
  Wed 04 December 2013 07:23
  Brussels will unveil hefty fines as soon as Wednesday on global banks that allegedly formed cartels to rig two global interest rate benchmarks, in a settlement that is set to break European antitrust enforcement records. The latest crackdown on benchmark

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: BP, China, Royal Bank of Scotland
  Tue 03 December 2013 07:00
  BP won a big victory in its battle to limit the cost of compensation for its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an appeals court called for an injunction to suspend payments to businesses that had not suffered losses as a result of the disaster.

• Monday newspaper round-up: China, Protectionism, RBS
  Mon 02 December 2013 09:16
  China's Premier, Li Keqiang today raised the prospect of China playing a major role in the construction of the HS2 high speed rail project in Britain. At a post-summit briefing in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Mr Li was at pains to highlight the pro

• Sunday newspaper round-up: UK economy, RBS, Tesco
  Sun 01 December 2013 16:13
  The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) will say the economy is growing at twice the rate it forecast in March, the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times reported. The OBR will say 2013 growth has jumped to 1.4% from the 0.6% it predicted eight months ago.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Netherlands, Japan, Royal Mail
  Fri 29 November 2013 07:31
  The Netherlands has become the latest Eurozone member to be stripped of its AAA credit rating by Standard & Poor's, citing weakening growth prospects as it cut the country's rating to AA+. Earlier this month France also suffered a downgrade by S&P, when i

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Tapering, Oil and gas, Pension system
  Thu 28 November 2013 07:49
  The European Central Bank has warned that the risks to the global financial system from market turbulence have increased since May. In its bi-annual Financial Stability Review published yesterday the Eurozone's central bank warned in particular that the w

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Amec, RBS, German coalition
  Wed 27 November 2013 08:07
  Amec is stalking its American rival Foster Wheeler with a view to potentially pulling off a deal to create a 5bn pound energy services group. Weeks after walking away from a £700m hostile takeover approach for Kentz, Amec is understood to be taking a ser

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: RBS, RWE, Iran
  Tue 26 November 2013 07:53
  According to The Times, RBS is facing fresh break-up calls after an advisor to the Department for Business called yesterday for it and Lloyds to be split into six retail banks. Lawrence Tomlinson, advisor to Vince Cable, suggested that RBS had "pushed hea

• Monday newspaper round-up: BP, easyJet, Royal Mail
  Mon 25 November 2013 07:31
  The judge hearing the civil case over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has strongly criticised BP, accusing the company's lawyers of "deeply disappointing" actions. In an order released late on Friday, Judge Carl Barbier said BP h

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Iran, RBS, Babcock
  Sun 24 November 2013 16:46
  The interim deal between Iran and six world powers hammered out in the small hours of November 24th to curb the former's nuclear programme is a long way from perfect, but it meets two key tests. The first is that it will extend Iran's so-called "critical

• Friday newspaper round-up: WTO, Serco, National Grid
  Fri 22 November 2013 07:24
  Negotiators are poised to seal the first global trade deal for more than a decade, in a rare victory for the World Trade Organisation, whose struggle to secure an international pact has increasingly threatened its relevance. The US and powerful developing

• Thursday newspaper round-up: China, Royal Mail, Lloyds
  Thu 21 November 2013 07:57
  Veteran UK fund manager Anthony Bolton believes that China's 'momentous' package of economic reforms, revealed last week, will be the catalyst that draws foreign investors back to one of the world's worst performing equity markets. China's top leaders las

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