{"id":2332,"date":"2004-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"monday-briefing-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2004\/monday-briefing-papers.html","title":{"rendered":"Monday briefing: Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observer<\/p>\n<p>  Eurotunnel is to outline plans to head off financial crisis amid concern that the Anglo-French firm will run out of money in two years.<\/p>\n<p>  Unilever , the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company, is this week expected to slash its sales forecast.<\/p>\n<p>  The Financial Services Authority is poised to investigate trading in shares of nuclear generator British Energy after they doubled in price folowing a US hedge fund buying heavily into the stock.<\/p>\n<p>  Sunday Times<\/p>\n<p>  The former chief executive of Vodafone, Sir Chris Gent , has declared his interest in becoming chairman of ITV.<\/p>\n<p>  Institutional investors in Royal Dutch\/Shell will this week spell out their blueprint for change at Europe&#8217;s second biggest oil group.<\/p>\n<p>  Vodafone could face tax liabilities and other costs of more than pounds 4bn if it decides to join the pounds 16bn bid for AT&amp;T Wireless , the US mobile phone operator.<\/p>\n<p>  Sunday Telegraph<\/p>\n<p>  Barclays is in talks to buy Providian Financial, the US credit card company, in a deal which could be worth $4bn (pounds 2.2bn).<\/p>\n<p>  Stephen Sunnucks is now the favourite to be appointed head of clothing at Marks &amp; Spencer following his decision to quit as New Look chief.<\/p>\n<p>  Express owner Richard Desmond and financier Terry Smith will this week lodge bids for Telegraph newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>  Leeds United football club, is in talks with Michael Ezra, a Ugandan property tycoon and former sportsman, who has reportedly tabled a pounds 60m bid to rescue the club.<\/p>\n<p>  Sunday Express<\/p>\n<p>  Life insurer Friends Provident is the target of a pounds 3.5bn takeover bid by several potential suitors.<\/p>\n<p>  The Formula One team owned by Eddie Jordan is facing a potentially devastating blow from a government investigation into its sponsorship deal with cigarette maker Benson &amp; Hedges.<\/p>\n<p>  Mail on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>  The manager of BT&#8217;s pension fund demanded a full investigation into Parmalat&#8217;s accounts a year before the Italian dairy group collapsed owing pounds 10bn.<\/p>\n<p>  Former BBC chairman Gavyn Davies sold shares worth pounds 4m in his old employer, investment bank Goldman Sachs , five days before he resigned from the corporation.<\/p>\n<p>  The Business<\/p>\n<p>  Pressure is growing on Sanofi-Synthelabo to increase its euros 50bn (pounds 34bn) offer for smaller pharmaceutical rival Aventis.<\/p>\n<p>  IoS<\/p>\n<p>  Sir Philip Watts, chairman of Shell , will this week face further attacks from major institutional investors who still believe he should resign.<\/p>\n<p>  DC Thomson , the privately owned publisher of the Beano, has been building a stake in SMG, the Scottish TV and Virgin Radio group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observer Eurotunnel is to outline plans to head off financial crisis amid concern that the Anglo-French firm will run out of money in two years. Unilever , the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company, is this week expected to slash its sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}