The Times
Women pay more than men on ‘sexist’ high street: High street stores are charging women up to twice as much as men for practically identical products, an investigation by The Times has found.
China slows to lowest growth in 25 years: China released a feast of stats today, from 30 million tonnes of eggs laid in 2015 to booming online retail sales, up 33.3 per cent last year, but the headline figure proved less appetising.
Clydesdale float will go ahead: National Australia Bank hopes to sell its British branches for as much as £2 billion, despite concerns that recent market falls might have made floating the business more difficult than had been first thought.
Competition forces Asda to cut jobs: Asda plans to cut hundreds of jobs from its head offices.
No papering over the cracks as Brikho falls at Amec: Months after surprising the City with a profit warning and a slashed dividend, Amec Foster Wheeler has parted ways with its chief executive.
The Daily Telegraph
UK's £1 trillion export target is a big stretch, says trade minister: UK would have to treble growth 'at a time when world trade is shrinking' to hit target.
Oil price crash: rout reaches US$27 as Opec warns US shale will be forced to relent
Trust in British business hits post-recession high: The percentage of university-educated, high-income individuals who trust UK plc jumped to 60% from 52% last year.
Tata confirms 1,050 more jobs to go as steel crisis intensifies: Latest Tata job cuts mean more than 5,000 steel jobs axed as industry buckles under pressure from cheap Chinese imports.
The Guardian
Ultra-low interest rates could be here to stay, says Bank of England adviser: Monetary policy committee member Gertjan Vlieghe says debt, demographics and distribution of income could all depress interest rates for years to come.
Friends Reunited web site to close after 15 years: Though it has been around since Mark Zuckerberg was just 15 years old, one of the original social networking web sites is to close.
BT hires 1,000 UK staff after complaints over Indian call centres: Telecoms group says 80% of calls will be answered in the UK by December after its customer service was ranked among worst in the industry.
The Independent
Eagles guitarist and founder Glenn Frey dies at 67: Frey died in New York city after becoming ill after complications of acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia.
MI5 named UK's most LGBT-friendly employer in annual Stonewall ranking: The organisation still had a ban in place on recruiting gay people as recently as the early 1990s.
Hollywood and Sky in showdown with Brussels over TV licensing deals: The EC’s competition authorities have highlighted Sky TV’s deals with Disney, Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros, saying they could violate EU law because they prevent customers outside the UK or Ireland from accessing the services.
David Cameron blamed after more than 1,000 jobs axed at Tata Steel: The losses, mostly in South Wales, mean almost 5,000 jobs have disappeared from the steel industry since last summer.
Daily Mail
Stelios takes EasyHotel bosses to task as director pay rockets from £195k to £650k while profit remains flat: Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is to vote down the pay proposals of the bosses at EasyHotel in a row over the way the business is run.
UK investment firms to launch legal action against Volkswagen after shares plunged in wake of emissions scandal: Some of Britain’s biggest investment firms are taking legal action against Volkswagen over its engine emissions scandal.
US online giant Amazon may be about to deliver a tie-up with UK rival Ocado (LON:OCDO), according to City rumours. Talk was that the American US internet retailer has advisers beavering away on a potential approach to the British online supermarket as part of its ambitions to launch a fully-fledged grocery delivery service in the UK.