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 forecast.
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.
Sunday Times
The former chief executive of Vodafone, Sir Chris Gent , has declared his interest in becoming chairman of ITV.
Institutional investors in Royal Dutch/Shell will this week spell out their blueprint for change at Europe’s second biggest oil group.
Vodafone could face tax liabilities and other costs of more than pounds 4bn if it decides to join the pounds 16bn bid for AT&T Wireless , the US mobile phone operator.
Sunday Telegraph
Barclays is in talks to buy Providian Financial, the US credit card company, in a deal which could be worth $4bn (pounds 2.2bn).
Stephen Sunnucks is now the favourite to be appointed head of clothing at Marks & Spencer following his decision to quit as New Look chief.
Express owner Richard Desmond and financier Terry Smith will this week lodge bids for Telegraph newspapers.
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.
Sunday Express
Life insurer Friends Provident is the target of a pounds 3.5bn takeover bid by several potential suitors.
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 & Hedges.
Mail on Sunday
The manager of BT’s pension fund demanded a full investigation into Parmalat’s accounts a year before the Italian dairy group collapsed owing pounds 10bn.
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.
The Business
Pressure is growing on Sanofi-Synthelabo to increase its euros 50bn (pounds 34bn) offer for smaller pharmaceutical rival Aventis.
IoS
Sir Philip Watts, chairman of Shell , will this week face further attacks from major institutional investors who still believe he should resign.
DC Thomson , the privately owned publisher of the Beano, has been building a stake in SMG, the Scottish TV and Virgin Radio group.
