A to Z of the Sunday newspapers

13 April 2012

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Here is this week's run-down of who is making the headlines on the City pages:

Observer

DFS

The entire non-executive board of furniture firm DFS will resign unless shareholding institutions accept the recommended £496m offer from Lord Kirkham.

Homes

Up to 400,000 houses in the north of England could be demolished under plans by John Prescott to transform struggling regional economies.

Oil

The cost of a barrel of oil could surge through $60 within weeks, inflicting heavy damage on the global economy, analysts warn.

Royal Mail

Royal Mail is set to fail all 15 of its service quality targets for the first three months of the financial year - following a similar failure for the previous 12 months.

Sunday Telegraph

Abbey National

Banco Santander would walk away from its £8.2bn offer for Abbey National if a rival bid from one or more UK banks led to a lengthy investigation by competition authorities.

Commercial property

Leading property company Hammerson is expected to say this week that the City office market has finally turned the corner after three years in the doldrums.

Energy

The Government is considering lifting constraints on harmful emissions from coal-fired power stations in order to ensure energy supplies in a crisis.

Split-cap scandal

Leading split-capital investment trust analyst John Szymanowski, whose research was behind many of the trusts in the late 1990s, has been suspended pending an internal inquiry.

Sunday Times

Airlines

Easyjet is poised to cull its routes and retire aircraft in a strategic review to be announced before the end of the year.

Defence

Alstom, the French industrial giant saved from bankruptcy by a government bail-out, has emerged as a leading contender to manage the construction of the Royal Navy‘s two new aircraft carriers.

Economy/oil

Economists are scaling back forecasts of global growth in response to the surge in oil prices, which are expected to exceed $50 a barrel.

Retailing

A leading supplier to Jackson Stores has called on the Government to block the £100m sale of the convenience store to supermarket chain Sainsbury‘s.

The Business

Oil

Surging oil prices are set to hit the global economy even harder than expected, increasing pressure on US President George Bush to release part of America‘s huge emergency oil stockpile.

Interest rates

Interest rates in the UK will have to rise to 6%, higher than expected, to contain an explosion in the amount of money in circulation, economists have warned.

Vodafone

The City is predicting a bumper dividend from mobile phone giant Vodafone this week after briefings from chief executive Arun Asarin.

Safeway

Two former Safeway directors who expressed an interest in buying 122 former Safeway supermarkets from WM Morrison are considering abandoning their bid.

Independent on Sunday

Oil

The cost of petrol in the UK will fall next month even if oil prices hit $50 a barrel as the peak period of demand comes to an end, according to Ray Holloway, director of the Petroleum Retailers Association.

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