Press round-up from ShareCast
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Paragon, Vodafone, Severn Trent
23 Jul, 2008 05:57
TPG Capital, the US private equity group, is considering a bid for Paragon, a specialist mortgage lender, less than three weeks after it infuriated the City by pulling out of… -
Tuesday newspaper round-up: Paragon, HBOS, Wolseley
22 Jul, 2008 06:05
Paragon, the struggling buy-to-let mortgage lender, is in talks with Blackstone about a potential takeover. -
Monday newspaper round-up: HBOS, Persimmon, Gulfsands
21 Jul, 2008 06:20
The largest rump of shares ever to be placed following a rights issue will fall on the market today as investment bankers try to offload £3.5bn worth of HBOS stock. -
Sunday's newspaper round-up: UK economy, HBOS, Dawnay Day
20 Jul, 2008 14:01
The UK economy is heading for recession next year and unemployment could top two million by 2010. That's the gloomy prognosis from the Ernst & Young Item Club, which publishes… -
Friday newspaper round-up: British Gas, BP, Ryanair
18 Jul, 2008 05:58
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are to attempt to borrow their way out of Britain's economic problems by drastically revising the rules that have governed Labour's stewardship of the economy… -
Thursday's newspaper round-up: HBOS, Rolls-Royce, Barclays
17 Jul, 2008 06:10
Underwriters to the HBOS rights issue were preparing to pick up the tab for the UK mortgage bank's £4bn cash call after a fresh slump in the stock made it…
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