PRESS DIGEST-British Business - April 15

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April 14 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

The Times

- The chief executive of Goldman Sachs ( GS ) has become the latest Wall Street boss to sound the alarm over President Trump's tariffs, warning that the tit-for-tat trade war poses "material risks" to the U.S. and world economy.

- The American semiconductor group Nvidia ( NVDA ) will spend up to $500 billion building supercomputers for artificial intelligence entirely in the U.S. for the first time, as it becomes the latest U.S. technology firm to bow to the Trump administration's push for domestic manufacturing.

The Guardian

- The big American tech firms known as the "Silicon Six"- Amazon ( AMZN ), Meta, Alphabet, Netflix ( NFLX ) , Apple ( AAPL ) and Microsoft ( MSFT ) have been accused of paying almost $278 billion (211 billion pounds) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for U.S. companies making the same profits.

- The Sheilas' Wheels owner, Esure, will be sold to the Belgian insurer Ageas in a 1.3 billion pound deal where the UK insurer will be bought from the private equity firm Bain Capital in a deal funded through a combination of surplus cash and debt or equity.

The Telegraph

- U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to hit imports of pharmaceuticals with new tariffs in a major setback for one of Britain's largest export industries.

Sky News

- The UK will announce a 120 million pound aid package for Sudan at a conference in London to mark the two-year anniversary of the conflict in the African country.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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