A to Z of the Sunday newspapers

HERE is This is Money's round-up of some of the bigger stories from the Sunday newspapers.

Independent on Sunday

HSBC-Morgan Stanley
HSBC is weighing a possible $75bn (£40bn) bid for Morgan Stanley, stepping in as a white knight after the dreadful pounding the Wall Street bank has suffered in the past week.

Somerfield
Property tycoons Ian and Richard Livingstone are understood to be putting more than £100m of their own cash into a bid to buy Somerfield.

Wireless Group
The UK's largest radio companies are shunning the auction of The Wireless Group (TWG), run by former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie, because they do not want to compete with the BBC.

Nuclear clean-up
Nuclear clean-up contractors could make a profit of up to £4bn from deals that start going out to tender in the next year. British and foreign companies stand to earn margins as high as 20% from the state-funded nuclear clean-up programme established last week.

The Observer

Compass Group
Compass Group, which shocked the stock market last week with its second profit warning in six months, faces further pressure as schools in England reconsider their catering contracts with the beleaguered group. Analysts have expressed concern over the company's education arm, Scolarest, which accounts for 9% of Compass's £3.1bn UK business and provides meals for 2,500 schools, colleges and universities.

Bad Easter for DIY
Retailers suffered a terrible Easter weekend providing fresh evidence that slowing consumer spending has not yet bottomed out.

Shell
Shell is facing yet more environmental protests over its controversial $12 billion oil and gas pipeline off the east coast of Russia.

New floats
The new-issue market is expected to bounce back to life in the second half of the year, as firms ranging from Debenhams to BP take advantage of improving stock markets and growing enthusiasm among investors for flotations.

BAE
BAE Systems is considering a £250 million sale of its Atlas Elektronik business, signalling that it is looking to use proceeds from European divisions to increase its presence in the US.

Sunday Telegraph

Government fund
Celtel, a sub-Saharan mobile operator, helped the Government to make more than a five-fold return on its investments in emerging markets last year.

Griffin Mining
RAB Capital, the influential hedge fund that has been the leading investor in the booming junior mining sector, has secretly sold its stake of almost 15% in Griffin Mining .

T-Mobile
T-Mobile is to intensify the price war between rival mobile network operators by slashing its call charges later on in the spring.

Sunday Times

Hit Entertainment
The American film and television group that released the controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11 is preparing to strong-arm his way into the £490m takeover of the company that owns Bob the Builder

Red tape
Red tape continues to grow alarmingly in spite of government pledges to reduce it, says a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) report. It shows a 46% rise in business regulations in the first half of 2004, the latest period for such figures.

Barclays
The South African government is this weekend preparing to give the go-ahead to Barclays to take majority control of Absa, one of the country's biggest banks.