Hotel Buzz - part 5

So, the venerable Financial Times has gone big this morning on its Starwood/InterContinental Hotels merger tale, running it as the main story in its Company & Markets section. The story is carefully written, implying talks were held, it's early days and something may or may not happen etc. However, the fact that the Pink 'Un has given it some welly this morning implies FT hacks have properly stood this one up.

Meanwhile, the rest of this morning's newspaper business sections have chosen to ignore the tale after IHG put a denial statement, saying it isn't in talks with Starwood about a combination (although I still don't quite understand why the London-listed company hasn't disseminated the statement via the UK RNS).

Hotel Buzz - part 4

Interesting tweet from Dom Walsh over at The Times:

Dominic Walsh ‏@walshdominic  25 mins25 minutes ago

Merger speculation around Starwood/IHG tie-up gaining fresh impetus

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I have been chasing this for the last month or so but couldn't stand it up. Perhaps somebody else can...

Back on Tip TV talking about Aveva, Quindell, Receptos, Starwood and Tottenham Hotspur

It's a Monday, so I was back on Tip TV talking about deals, dealmakers and, er, a north London football club.

Here is a link to today's clip:

http://www.tiptv.co.uk/archives/ma-weekly-update-3/