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Telegraph
The Times
The Times (Need to know)
FT
The Guardian
The Independent
This is Money
Saturday
Lord Mandelson is assessing which businesses and industries are important enough for the Government to save from collapse as the economy worsens, he disclosed last night.
Lord Mandelson draws up list of businesses Government should save from collapse
Sunday
Interest rates will be cut again this week by up to 1 per cent when the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has its monthly meeting. Economists predict that Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank, and his MPC team will sanction a cut of at least a half a percent to 2.5 per cent on Thursday.
City predicts further 1% cut in base rate
GENERAL MOTORS is in emergency discussions with its lenders this weekend over a multi-billion dollar debt-for-equity deal that could save the iconic American car giant from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
GM boss in last-ditch talks on debt for equity swap
The CPS confirmed it had begun a new investigation. If it finds BT breached RIPA, which makes intercepting internet traffic without a warrant or consent a criminal offence, the case will go to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The European Commissioner for Information, Society and Media, Viviane Reding, is also investigating whether the secret trials breached the European Convention on Human Rights.
CPS investigates BT over internet trials
Monday
Oil traders were bracing themselves for a further sharp drop in the price of crude today after Opec deferred a decision on fresh production curbs amid rifts among its members over adherence to existing agreed cuts in output.
Opec indecision paves way for oil price falls
The board of General Motors was last night understood to be locked in discussions to save the US car leader from filing for bankruptcy.
General Motors in last-minute rescue talks
Investors are likely to sell about $140bn in private equity investments more than 10% of the total in the next 18 months, with many of them sustaining losses. Pension funds, endowments, banks and insurance companies are poised to sell down their private equity portfolios just as their value is falling.
Buy-out groups face $140bn sale
Private equity companies have begun underwriting their own debt in a desperate attempt to get deals done.
Private equity underwrites own debt
Manufacturers are heading for the toughest trading conditions for 20 years and need another one percentage cut in interest rates to cushion the downturn says an industry survey.
Manufacturing hits 20-year low
More than 1,000 retail businesses have collapsed during the past year, with more failures expected due to poor Christmas trading.
A thousand businesses collapse in trading gloom
The London Stock Exchange has already lost a quarter of its near-monopoly in London business in equities to rival exchanges, figures seen by The Times show.
London Stock Exchange loses trade to rivals