02-Aug-2012 13:29

Ministers weigh buying out RBS shares - Financial Times :: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/88db848e-dbd8-11e1-aba3-00144feab49a.html

Profits jump 23pc at Olympic power provider Aggreko - Telegraph.co.uk :: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9445873/Profits-jump-23pc-at-Olympic-power-provider-Aggreko.html

Trinity Mirror raises forecast after reporting 21% profit boost - The Guardian :: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/02/trinity-mirror-raises-profit-forecast?newsfeed%3Dtrue

Delayed Saudi jet deal weighs on BAE profit - Reuters :: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/baesystems-earnings-idINL6E8J22KS20120802

Ladbrokes pledges to fix ailing digital arm - Telegraph.co.uk :: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/leisure/9445789/Ladbrokes-pledges-to-fix-ailing-digital-arm.html

HMV boss Simon Fox resigns - The Guardian :: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/aug/02/hmv-boss-simon-fox-resigns?newsfeed%3Dtrue

Euro crisis: ECB meets amid bond intervention hopes - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19088300

'Biblical' rain see scramble to book holidays with Thomas Cook - but it still ... - This is Money :: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2182540/Biblical-rainfall-sends-Britons-scrambling-book-Thomas-Cook-breaks.html

London midday: BoE maintains rates; all eyes now on the ECB - ShareCast :: http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sharecast/story.cgi?story_id%3D20272052

Downturn in UK manufacturing gathered pace in July -UPDATE - ShareCast :: http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sharecast/story.cgi?story_id%3D20269919