A-Z of the Sunday newspapers

By This Is Money
Updated: 00:00 BST, 18 January 2004

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THIS Is Money reads the Sunday papers so you don't have to. Here is this week's run-負かす／撃墜する of who is making the headlines on the City pages:

Sunday Telegraph

BG Group

British Gas has lost an 概算の 15,000 顧客s to 競争相手 操作者s over the past week after 法外な price 引き上げ（る）s for 国内の gas and electricity took 影響 on Monday.

Odeon

Robert Tchenguiz, the 所有物／資産／財産 entrepreneur, and Entertainment Group, the film distributor, are の近くに to buying out WestLB's 火刑／賭ける in the Odeon cinema chain in a 取引，協定 valued at up to £300m.

Manchester 部隊d

Roy Gardner, the chairman of Manchester 部隊d, is hoping to 仲買人 a 停戦 between Sir Alex Ferguson, the 経営者／支配人 of the football club, and John Magnier, the multi-millionaire 実業家.

爆撃する

投資家s in 王室の Dutch/爆撃する have 解任するd the explanation given by Sir Philip ワットs, the chairman, for his absence during a 会議／協議会 call 10 days ago in which the company 認める it had overbooked its reserves by 25%.

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Sunday Times

British 航空路s

BA is to 明かす 計画（する）s to 削減（する） costs by £300m a year. Staff 推定する／予想する thousands more 職業 losses at the UK's largest 航空機による.

Cazenove

Lehman Brothers is keen to acquire City stockbroker Cazenove, によれば bosses at the American 投資 bank.

City 支払う／賃金

財政上の 仲買人 Driss Ben-Brahim at the 投資 bank, Goldman Sachs, is 始める，決める to earn one of the biggest 特別手当s in City history - 価値（がある） at least £30m and 同等（の） to the 普通の／平均（する） 年次の 収入s of more than 1,100 people.

利益／興味 率s

Britain is 始める，決める for a two-year にわか景気 that will 要求する the Bank of England to raise base 率 to 5%, によれば the 最新の Ernst & Young Item Club 予測（する）, to be published this week.

Invensys

The beleaguered 工学 group has been planning a surprise £500m 権利s 問題／発行する as it struggles to sell £1 billion of 資産s.

Oil

Lord Browne, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of BP, the world's second-largest oil company, has 警告するd the City and British 産業 to 準備する for a long period of high oil prices.

Safeway

示すs & ; Spencer has 支配するd out making a counterbid for Safeway, ending 憶測 about its 利益／興味 in the supermarket chain, which has agreed a £3 billion recommended 引き継ぎ／買収 企て，努力，提案 from Wm Morrison.

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観察者／傍聴者

Virgin

Britain's favourite 実業家 Richard Branson is considering a 株式市場 flotation for Virgin 動きやすい, which will value it at about £1 billion.

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独立した・無所属 on Sunday

Lloyds TSB

Eric Daniels, Lloyds TSB's 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, has 支配するd out any major 取得／買収s for at least two years.

Marconi

Marconi's long and tortuous climb 支援する to profitability could be 妨害するd by its biggest 顧客, BT, which is 始める，決める to spread 契約s to 昇格 its 網状組織s の中で 競争相手 companies.

BAE Systems

The 省 of Defence and its biggest 武器 供給者, BAE Systems, will be 予定するd this week by the 政府's spending 監視者 for a 一連の cost 侵略（する）／超過（する）s and 延期するs to major 事業／計画（する）s.

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Sunday 表明する

Fiat

Italian 自動車 巨大（な） Fiat could be 'the next Parmalat', によれば a 主要な US credit 分析家. It 直面するs 開始するing loses and is ひどく indebted.

Sainsbury's

長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Sir Peter Davis has ordered an 精密検査する of the struggling 蓄える／店 group's image, 含むing dropping the スローガン, 'Making life taste better', and introducing a new logo.