Press round-up from ShareCast
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Friday newspaper round-up: Woolworths, Barclays, Northern Rock
21 Nov, 2008 06:14
More than one in five homes on the market are there because their owners cannot afford the mortgage repayments, The Times has learnt. -
Thursday newspaper round-up: Small companies, Woolworths, Lloyds
20 Nov, 2008 06:06
Alistair Darling will try to kickstart bank lending next week by offering new taxpayer-funded guarantees for loans to small and medium-sized firms, it emerged last night, according to the Times. -
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Woolworths, Easyjet, Marks & Spencer
19 Nov, 2008 06:14
Woolworths is in talks to sell its entire high street business to Hilco, the specialist distressed fund, for £1. -
Tuesday newspaper round-up: Barclays, SVG Capital, Yahoo!
18 Nov, 2008 06:15
Barclays' board is preparing to issue a "back us or sack us" ultimatum to its rebellious shareholders as part of a package of measures designed to quell their anger over… -
Monday newspaper report: HBOS, Easyjet, ICAP
17 Nov, 2008 06:19
The Treasury is considering dangling the lure of lucrative shares in the banks to pension funds and other City investors to reduce the cost to taxpayers of its bailout plan,… -
Sunday newspaper round-up: Standard Chartered, Barclays, G20 summit
16 Nov, 2008 12:50
Standard Chartered is considering raising billions of pounds of extra capital to bring it in line with the swollen balance sheets of other British banks, says the Sunday Telegraph.
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