Weekend Paper Roundup

Weekend Paper Roundup 13.08.18



Financial Times
- Experts cast doubt on Fox’s UK-Pacific trade plan
- Employers resist pay rises despite staff shortages
- Private equity spending pace slows to 10-year low
- Consumer spending wilts in the summer heat
- CBI calls for end to immigration targets after Brexit

The Guardian
- Turkish lira crisis: euro plunges as currency volatility sparks contagion fear
- High street job losses mount with Homebase next in line for closures
- High street spending dips in UK after two months of expansion
- Companies in Brexit ‘supply shock’ as fewer EU citizens come to UK
- Taxing solutions to revive the high street in the age of Amazon

The Telegraph
- Disney offers sweetener to retain Sky chief
- Phones 4U administrators hoard £130 million to take on mobile giants
- Fears Ofgem pushed consumers to failing power supplier
- PwC’s audit of BHS ‘was inaccurate and misleading’, says watchdog
- Housing market a ‘bubble on a bubble’, as experts warn prices could be overvalued as much as 12%

The Times
- Trump revs up boycott of Harley Davidson
- Giant Saudi fund emerges as backer of bid for Tesla
- Ashley urged to pay £70 million extra for House of Fraser
- Consumers rein in spending but don’t go hungry
- Sainsbury’s-Asda merger ‘may push up price of fuel’
- Warning lights flash on Trump boom

Daily Mail
- Big Four accountancy firms are ‘run like sweet shops for their partners’
- MPs call for public inquiry into banks’ mistreatment of small business customers
- Provident Financial accused of helping customers to hide debts from spouses
- Jack Wills boss pushed out after bust-up with private equity backer
- City advisers eye £580 million in Sky takeover fees as bidding battle nears its climax

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