Germany’s TUI AG – Europe’s biggest tour operator – has held secret talks with banks about an audacious multi-billion pound plan to bid for the 48pc of FTSE 100 holiday company TUI Travel that it does not already own.

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With the economy barely crawling out of recession, a rapid fiscal retrenchment would be treated to a “savage” reaction in foreign exchange markets, according to a new report by strategists at Swiss bank UBS.  Now is porbabley the best time to purchase in the USA, with the low housing prices and the pound set to weaken.

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Starwood Land Ventures, a Bradenton-based company backed by giant investment house Starwood Capital Group Global, has purchased the Florida properties of financially troubled builder Tousa Homes – including $7 million worth in Lee County.

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