What the Sunday papers say

SUNDAY EXPRESS RYANAIR chief executive Michael O’Leary has been given a vote of confidence by some of its biggest institutional investors, despite the chaos engulfing the budget carrier. STOCK market flotations around the world are at their highest levels since the 2007 credit crunch, according to data from Dealogic. LLOYDS Banking Group is set to face disgruntled shareholders in the High Court on October 18, over claims it misled them during its 2008 rescue of ailing rival HBOS. SUNDAY TIMES JOHN CRYAN, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, has been warned that he faces the axe unless he can turn round the colossal German lender in just six months. THE co-owner of an £8billion PFI deal to build high-speed trains is considering cashing in at a huge profit – before the trains have hit the tracks. ATOM Bank’s losses climbed to £42million last year as the digital lender ramped up its growth plans. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BODEN, the online clothing brand loved by Britain’s middle classes, paid out £9.3million to nine directors last year following a successful overseas push. ECONOMIC growth is bucking fears of an inflation-driven crunch on household spending, as global growth and the weak pound fuel a British export boom. OBSERVER THE UK economy, which no one had thought was rocketing ahead in any case, actually performed worse than expected in the second quarter, new figures showed on Friday.