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The Cover Story
* Food Aid … The Stock Market Solution (UK firms with enterprising answers to unfolding crisis): - Those mentioned in the article are, Plant Impact, Plant Health Care, Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, TyraTech
8-Page section entitled
* Banks: What are they good for? - Hold HSBC, Hold RBS, Hold Standard Chartered, Avoid Bradford & Bingley, Avoid Alliance & Leicester, Avoid HBOS
* Charting the Sector – Buy RBS (target 346p, stop-loss 210p) and Bank of Georgia (target $35, stop-loss $24.80)
Opinion
* Time to go contrarian?
Agenda
* Time to rethink recruitment
* Silicon chips go soggy
Plays
* Buy – Redstone, Qinetiq
Plays Update
* Hold – Cape
The Griller Page
* Would I buy shares in Mondi? – No
Feature
* Riding out the Storm – The economic glass is falling in Europe, as in the US, so which coporate ports should investors seek to protect their assets?
The Explorer Pages
* AIM’s greatest challenge yet
* North Sea still Fyne for Antrim
* Dattels eyes minor metals with latest venture
Oil & Gas stock to Watch
* Elixir Petroleum
Mining stock to Watch
* Chaarat Gold Holdings
FINANCIAL TIMES
Front Page
* King and Darling issue bleak forecast
The Lex Column
* Socially awkward - the assumption behind their skyhigh valuations - including this week's implied $1 billion price tag for Linkedin - is that eyeballs can be turned into dollars
* Bollywood 90210- it would make a passable B movie, Indian tycoon, daggers drawn with brother, teams up with the most popular director of all time to win global audiences with Hollywood magic
* Hennes & Mauritz - The horror of being spotted at this year's slowdown in last season's fashions. Second-quarter results for Sweden's Hennes and Mauritz, suggest that consumers are still strutting their stuff
* FedEx and fuel - Oil is burning a hole in the profits of FedEx, self-styled engine of the global economy, accounting for half the increase in fourth-quarter operating costs
* UBM and Informa - The collapse of talks between UBM and Informa is about as surprising as Austria and Switzerland's early exit from Euro 2008
The Lombard Column
* Inflation should make retailers dislike like-for-likes
* Cut-price conundrum (Woolworths)
* Waiting for the golden age (Economy)
The Power Player
* Lee Bartlett, of ITV Productions
Interview
* David Lester, London Stock Exchange's chief information officer
Fund Focus
* Europe Active Fund Managers
Further news
* Morgan Stanley in rogue trade probe
* Could Asia buckle under the burden of inflation?
* Builders hammered after Goldman alert on housing outlook
* Land of Leather might look to raise £13-million with a five-for-one underwritten cash call price at around 5p
* DSG suffers amid sales slowdown
THE TIMES
* New rules of war put women on front line
Page 42 Feature
* Gieve in unexpected exit as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
The Business Editor’s Column
* Hands up those in favour of financial stability
* US offshore drilling: a crude awakening for Florida
* Woolworths: share price is no sweetener
Business Big Shot
* Trevor Bish-Jones, chief executive of Woolworths
The Tempus Column
* Avoid - Misys
* Avoid - Woolworths
* Buy – Caretech
A Tiddler to Watch
* Eckoh
Further news
* Another week, another rate increase from HBOS
* Rate-rise worry and gloom at shops send shares down
* Profit harvest for Wynnstay
* Speculation that Matica will announce contracts worth over £790,000
DAILY TELEGRAPH
The Front Page
* Cancer patient recovers after injection of cells
The Comment Column
* Public spending abuse leaves Darling with ugly choice
* Bish-Jones probably better off out of the Woolworths mix
* Some hope as Labour goes cap in hand
The Questor Column
* Sell - Sainsbury
* Hold - Misys
Further news
* Corn price warning drives Tate & Lyle to four-year low
* Market Report Feature: Unlucky 13 (AIM All-Share)
* Market Report Feature: Friends Focus – Friends Provident and Standard Life
THE GUARDIAN
No share news today
THE INDEPENDENT
* GM crops needed in Britain, says minister
The Outlook:
* Tough times indeed, but the City's Mansion House has seen - and heard - it all before
* Lesson of the 1970’s is raise interest rates
* Is Woolies still worth anything at all?
The Hamish McRae Column
* Happy birthday to the €uro … but the real test for the currency lies ahead
Investment Column:
* Hold Mouchel, Thomson Reuters and Trifast
Further news
* International Ferro Metals glistens on ‘buy’ note (Merrill Lynch)
DAILY MAIL
The City Interview
* Vitaly Vasilliev, chief executive UK branch of Gazprom
At a Glance
* LSE-cheap as blue chips
Further news
* Bears slaver at summer sell-off
DAILY EXPRESS
Share Whisper
* Panmure Gordon believes Hikma Pharmaceuticals could attract a bid worth 660p-a-share
Further news
* Airlines flying into more turbulence
DAILY MIRROR
No share news today
THE SUN
No share news today
COMMENT AND BID NEWS
* The FSA is investigating rogue London trader’s $120-million hole at Morgan Stanley
* FSA reverses options position on emergency short-selling rules
* Vodafone has pulled out of the auction of Tiscali, according to insiders
* Zurich Financial Services lines up cash to bid for Royal Bank of Scotland's insurance assets -- Telegraph
* Imperial Tobacco to unveil Altadis restructuring
* ITV signs a potentially ground-breaking deal to develop new programmes with Twentieth Century Fox TV
* Centrica fights EDF for Belgian energy target SPE
* GlaxoSmithKline wins UK Department of Health contract for HPV vaccine
* Danka Business Systems may not be able to meet its capital working requirements if its amended EGM resolution proposing the disposal of its business operations is not approved by shareholders
* Aktieninvestor.com now holds 5.2% of Absolute Capital Management
* Peter Hambro's PHL extends financing deal with Goldman Sachs by a year
OTHER NEWS THAT COULD AFFECT SHARE PRICES
From Wall Street
* The Dow closed down 131.24-points at 12029.06, the Nasdaq lost 28.02-points 2429.71, while the S&P fell 13.12-points to close at 1337.81.
Credit Crisis Fallout
* Chancellor Alistair Darling and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King deliver the bleakest official assessment of economic prospects for 15 years in what the Bank of England governor says 'is the most challenging period' since 1997
* Alistair Darling calls for pay restraint and King warns that interest rates may have to rise to curb inflation
* Manufacturers are planning a further set of price rises, according to CBI Industrial Trends survey
* Household energy bills could increase by as much as 40% this winter, as oil and wholesale gas prices hit record highs. The increases could mean households paying £400 more a-year on average for their gas and electricity, senior industry sources have said. The increase is far more than analysts had predicted in recent months. It would put more pressure on homeowners already struggling with higher food and fuel costs.
* Hedge fund manager John Paulson, warns that problems in the housing market would spread to non-residential construction and consumer spending
Oil, Energy, Commodities and Food
* President Bush asks Congress to lift ban on offshore drilling
News from Home
* Deputy governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Gieve, to step down in spring after changes to the Bank's financial stability functions have passed into law
* CBI/KPMG London business survey warns that capital's business edge is threatened
* Major US chief executives are more pessimistic, but still see no recession
* Fund managers most underweight on equities in a decade, according to Merrill Lynch survey
* Simon Mann, the Old Etonian mercenary, has placed Sir Mark Thatcher right at the heart of the plot to overthrow the President of the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in 2004.
News from Abroad
* FedEx issues a bleak outlook for this year's results amid rising fuel costs and an economic slump
* US corporate earnings expected to fall for fourth straight quarter
* US congressional investigators urge US Air Force to reopen an £18 billion refuelling tanker deal that EADS won against Boeing
Sport
* Claims that football clubs and other sports teams are being used as a conduit for money laundering are to be investigated by the global watchdog on criminal fund focus
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