Sunday Papers: EU banker pay cap 'threatens thousands of British jobs'

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• The Sunday Telegraph: The Government signalled its growing anger over EU plans to impose a cap on pay for bankers when a senior minister with close ties to the Chancellor said hundreds of thousands of British jobs were being put at risk.
• The Sunday Telegraph: A major fund manager has reclassified Greece from a developed to an emerging market, in an unprecedented move reflecting the country's "unfortunate economic tailspin".
• Mail on Sunday: An eye-catching five per cent fixed interest rate is to be offered by Nationwide Building Society on its FlexDirect current account.
• The Independent on Sunday: The one-time glamour couple of the hedge-fund industry, Elena Ambrosiadou and Martin Coward, renew court hostilities on Tuesday in a bitter row over intellectual property.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Aviva is set to announce profits of £155 million this week as analysts question whether the insurer will cut its dividend.
• The Sunday Telegraph: HSBC is set to report a pre-tax profit of more than $ 23 billion, the bank's best result since before the financial crisis, as it enters the final year of its turnaround plan.

Business and economics

• The Sunday Telegraph: Investor enthusiasm for the strategy of easyJet chief executive Carolyn McCall is expected to send the low-cost airline into the FTSE 100 this week.
• The Sunday Telegraph: John Lewis Partnership is set to hand its staff a bonus worth around 15% of their annual salary on Thursday when the company reveals its annual profits.
• The Sunday Telegraph: International Airlines Group, the company which owns British Airways, will face fresh pressure over its Spanish business this week as unions threaten to extend proposed strikes.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Evernote, an online notetaking service, has asked users to reset their passwords following a security breach.
• The Sunday Telegraph: More than 70 workers were taken off a North Sea oil platform on Saturday after a leak was detected.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Technology giant Huawei is plotting to overtake Apple and Samsung in the mobile phone market.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Bank of England policymakers are expected to reject calls for more quantitative easing this week in what would be seen as a snub for the outgoing Governor, Sir Mervyn King.
• The Guardian: Amazon was forced to take action on Saturday after it was found to be selling T-shirts with slogans promoting rape and violence on its website.
• The Independent on Sunday: Consortia vying for the contract to decommission £7 billion of nuclear waste are spending as much as £1 million a month on bidding.

Share tips, comment and bids

• The Sunday Telegraph: The huge mining and trading company about to be created by the tie-up of the FTSE 100's Glencore and Xstrata will be hit by falling commodity prices across the globe new figures are set to reveal this week.
• Mail on Sunday: Moves by the City regulator to relax funding rules for new banks could throw a lifeline to state-owned banking giants Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland, which are struggling to sell hundreds of branches.
• The Sunday Telegraph (Comment): Plans for a cap on banking bonuses is just the latest salvo in a stealth war being waged by Brussels against the financial services sector.
• The Guardian (Comment): The insurer, HSBC and John Lewis are all likely to be celebrating – in very different ways – this week.
• Mail on Sunday (Comment): With so much pre-announced and pre-committed in five-year spending frameworks and similar, the modern Chancellor is left to tinker at the margin come Budget Day.
• Mail on Sunday (Midas share tip): Boss at mining giant Vedanta Resources spends £64million buying shares.
• Mail on Sunday (Midas share tip): Simon Borrows, head of private equity group 3i, spent £7.7million last week buying 2.5 million shares at 307p.
• The Independent on Sunday (Comment): You would think that Marissa Mayer, who runs Yahoo, had burnt her baby and the entire sisterhood at the stake for all the vitriol she's received after suggesting that staff get back into the office.
• The Independent on Sunday (Comment): Sequestration is a horrid word, and as far as the current US usage is concerned it is an inappropriate one.