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It's another merger Monday with plenty of deals announced.
Bad news for City grandee and former Chairman of the Conservative Party Lord Spencer of Alresford.
Some readers may have begun their holidays but the deal stories are still rolling in.
Malcolm Moore of the Financial Times has picked up an intriguing line about the BP takeover rumour that would appear substantiate this year's relentless reports about Shell weighing a takeover bid for its FTSE 100-listed rival.
There weren't too many deal scoops in the British newspapers this weekend but there were plenty of opinion pieces and editorials about the Shell - BP hullabaloo created by rivals at the Wall Street Journal last week.
Well, this morning's denial from Shell of yesterday's Wall Street Journal's 'scoop' about the FTSE 100 oil giant's 'active' takeover talks with BP is about as categorical as you can get.
It took a while but the Wall Street Journal has finally decided to follow up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED alert from earlier this year about the BP takeover rumour.
Hacks at the venerable Financial Times have finally jumped onto the BP takeover story after arch rivals at Bloomie stirred the pot again last weekend with its tale about Shell taking a look at the FTSE 100-listed oil giant.
Three months after little old Betaville first revealed that FTSE 100 oil giant BP was at the centre of takeover talk arch rivals at Bloomberg have decided to run their version of the tale.
Arch rivals at Bloomberg did well yesterday to dig out the takeover scoop on London-listed information provider GlobalData.
Tucked away in the centre of The Sunday Times business section is an excellent interview of the billionaire owner of the left leaning New Statesman magazine by the 'Genteel Hustler', also known as William Turvill.
There weren't too many deal scoops in the British Sunday newspapers this weekend but one piece caught little old Betaville's eye.
It would appear Mark "The Kleinmanator" Kleinman of Sky News and City AM has decided to air the Shell - Total merger tale that has been circulating around the City of London in the last couple of weeks.