Friday Papers: tips and comment

Financial Times

The Lex Column

* Heavy industry - the latest crop of quarterly earnings shows sector in rude health.

* Metro Bank - a new contender in UK banking opens its doors – with one branch.

* Panasonic: Going green - Japanese electronics company is in search of a niche it can dominate.

* Colgate-Palmolive - not everyone can come out smiling in emerging markets.

Lombard

* Full house: PartyGaming deals itself two bosses - Sky is no limit.

Other Comments

* Three years on, the markets are masters again - how political resolve has given way to fear.

* Take central banks down a notch - it can hardly be said that they have achieved distinction in recent years.

* Flattery and false steps as Cameron looks east - Geoffrey Wheatcroft wonders whether the UK government has a considered foreign policy at all.