A-Z of the Sunday newspapers

THIS Is Money reads the Sunday papers so you don't have to. Here is this week's run-down of who is making the headlines on the City pages:

Independent on Sunday

Prudential
Michael McLintock, the head of Prudential's fund management arm M&G, is being touted by rebel shareholders as a favoured replacement for the insurer's under-fire chief executive Jonathan Bloomer

BAA
Ryanair and easyJet are preparing to challenge the proposed £3.5bn expansion of Stansted airport, claiming that it poses a threat to low-cost airlines.

The Sunday Times

Hilton
Hilton, the hotelier, has identitified Blackpool as the location for its first £200m Las vegas-style casino. In doing so it is leading a British fightback to the American gaming giants that have announced big plans to expand in this country.

Intercontinental
Whitehall, the real estate vehicle owned by Goldman Sachs and Blackstone, the American private-equity group, is among a number of opportunity funds that have tabled first-round offers to buy the £1.4bn British hotel portfolio put up for sale by Intercontinental.

Warner Chilcott
A surprise rise in Chinese interest rates has encouraged Goldman Sachs to consider making a higher offer for Warner Chilcott, the northern Ireland drugs group that has already agreed to a £1.6bn bid by a private-equity consortium.

Ryanair
Ryanair is expected to defy the gloom in the airline industry this week by reporting a 10% jump in profits, but it will face tough questions about its exposure to high oil prices.

The Sunday Telegraph

Brown's tests
Tony Blair's former economic adviser has launched a devastating attack on Gordon Brown's five tests, the means by which the chancellor will judge whether Britain is ready to join the euro.

Shell
Jeroen van der Veer, the new chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, and his fellow executive directors are set to see their total pay packages surge after the merger of the oil giant's two operating companies.

Eurotunnel
The board of Eurotunnel, the heavily indebted owner of the Channel Tunnel, has submitted a new three-year business plan to HSBC and Calyon, the banks that represent more than 200 of its lenders.

Cazenove
JP Morgan and Cazenove are understood to be putting the final touches to their planned joint venture, which could be announced this week.

The Observer

EU scandal
The Serious Fraud Office is considering whether to investigate alleged misconduct within the European Commission after receiving a dossier of evidence from Marta Andreasen, the Brussels whistleblower who worked for former Labour leader Neil Kinnock.

UK consumer boom
Britain's long-running consumer boom will come to an end in 2005 as a slowdown in the housing market forces a bout of belt-tightening, economist Roger Bootle warns today.

Rover
The auditors of MG Rover have voiced doubts over a deal between the firm and a Chinese partner which is seen as vital to the future of the Longbridge-based car maker.

Rogue lenders
Britain's £520bn-a-year lending industry faces a crackdown starting today aimed at protecting borrowers from extortionate interest rates, unfair contracts and mis-selling on everything from mortgages to back-street loans.