Morning all. Friday's market reports:
Telegraph
The Times
The Times (Need to know)
FT
The Guardian
The Independent
This is Money
Saturday
Global markets and the euro fell heavily in a late sell-off on Friday after Alex Weber, a top European Central Bank policymaker, fanned fears over Europe's sovereign debt crisis by warning of fresh dangers to the financial system .
World stock markets, euro tumble as eurozone jitters trigger late sell-off
In the previous hour upstairs at the summit, Sarkozy had thrown a wobbly. "It was really a drama," said an experienced European diplomat. "A very abrupt end to a summit - because Sarkozy said he had had enough and really forced Merkel to face her responsibility." A European Commission official added: "He was shouting and bawling. The Germans were being very difficult, and not only the Germans. It was a big fight between Sarkozy and Merkel."
How the euro - and the EU - teetered on the brink of collapse
France outside the eurozone would suffer its own economic troubles - as would Germany.
Q&A: Could France leave the eurozone?
We dont know by how much public spending will be cut, or by how much taxes will rise but we know that theyre coming. But for investors in UK equities, that prospect should not alarm - at least according to Goldman Sachs.
Outlook is bright for equities
It has been one of the biggest casualties of the credit crunch, but buy-to-let lenders are predicting a comeback, despite the surprise rise in capital gains tax (CGT) by the new coalition government.
Buy-to-let mortgage rates signal market recovery
A big exclusive for Reuters, which on Friday afternoon revealed the identity of the mystery trader CFTC chairman Gary Gensler said placed a disproportionately large sell order in CME e-mini S&P futures around the time of Thursdays flash crash. And it was not a high frequency trader or a hedge fund, but a money manager called Waddell & Reed Financial.
Reuters names e-mini flash crash seller
Sunday
THE euro is set to slide further and could be heading for parity with the dollar, analysts say. The single currencys weakness and mounting fears over Europes recovery prospects could hit growth in Britain.
Euro heads for parity with dollar
George Osborne is to admit defeat on new European Union rules to regulate Britains multi-billion pound hedge fund and private equity industry and allow finance ministers to pass a new directive which could badly damage the sector.
Osborne in EU hedge fund defeat
Officials also seem to think they can stop the property juggernaut by piecemeal measures to cut speculation and increasing the supply of low-cost housing. But a recent study by HSBC said credit-fuelled demand exceeds supply and the frenzied momentum of the market has pushed the ratio of property values to GDP to levels approaching those of Japan in the 1980s.
Chinas bubble waiting to burst
Monday
Government advisers have dampened the likelihood of a break-up of Britain's major banks in favour of internal reforms in a move that will reassure the City that potentially damaging regulatory change is unlikely.
Government softens on bank reform
Marstons cask ... Peacocks sale ... BA results ...
Need to know
THE Icelandic eruption that has caused misery for air travellers could be part of a surge in volcanic activity that will affect the whole of Europe for decades, scientists have warned.
Scientists forecast decades of ash clouds