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AstraZeneca (AZN.L) has requested emergency use authorisation from US regulators for its new treatment to prevent COVID-19 for people who respond poorly to vaccines because of a weakened immune ...

Lebanon’s former prime minister Hassan Diab said on Monday he had given up shares in a company he was linked to in a leak of financial documents, and denied ...

Cryptocurrency investment products and funds recorded inflows for a seventh straight week, as institutional investors warmed to more supportive statements from regulators, data from digital asset manager CoinShares showed on ...

British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday that tax cuts could only come once public finances had been put on a sustainable footing. Last month the government set out ...

Britain told the European Union on Monday it would trigger safeguard measures in their divorce deal if the bloc failed to agree to changes to smooth trade with Northern Ireland, ...

The latest James Bond movie took a mighty $121 million at the international box office over its opening weekend, Universal Pictures said on Monday. The British and Irish box office led ...

Investigations into the roles of now-IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and former World Bank president Jim Yong Kim in altering World Bank data to favour China are the latest in ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Turkey had ordered agricultural cooperatives to open about 1,000 new markets across the country to provide “suitable” prices for consumer goods in the face of ...

OPEC and its allies meet on Monday to debate how much oil to release into the red hot market, where supply disruptions and recovering demand from the coronavirus pandemic have ...

A deal with the United States is not the “be all and end all” of trade agreements, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Sunday. A trade deal with the ...

Switzerland’s economic affairs secretariat (SECO) has filed a criminal complaint in relation to collapsed financier Greensill Capital for alleged violations of the law against unfair competition, it told Reuters ...

South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband has sued Netflix (NFLX.O) to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work because of a surge of viewers to ...

The advent of digital currencies in emerging markets could spark “cryptoization” of local economies, potentially undermining exchange and capital controls and upsetting financial stability, the International Monetary Fund said on ...

Hong Kong’s exposure to debt-laden developer China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) is “very minimal” at 0.05 per cent, or HK$14 billion ($1.79 billion), of banking assets, South China Morning Post reported on ...

Positive clinical trial results for Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) experimental antiviral COVID-19 pill reverberated through the healthcare sector on Friday, sending the drugmaker’s stock price soaring while ...

Eurozone inflation hit a 13-year high last month and looks likely to jump higher still, further clouding the European Central Bank’s benign view of the biggest price spike since ...

A slump in Zoom Video Communications Inc’s (ZM.O) share price likely limited its ability to sweeten a nearly $15 billion all-stock offer for call center software firm Five9 (FIVN....

The outcome of a $10 billion six-month battle to buy British supermarket chain Morrisons (MRW.L) will be decided in a one-day auction on Saturday overseen by the Takeover Panel. The ...

OPEC+ is considering going beyond its existing deal to boost production by 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) when it meets next week, sources said, at a time when oil pricesare near ...

Standard Chartered said on Friday it now expects Turkey’s central bank to cut interest rates by another 300 basis points by year-end to 15 per cent and upped its 2021 inflation and ...

Bitcoin was up 5.23 per cent at $43,716.97 as of 22:08 GMT on Thursday, adding $2,174.07 to its previous close. The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency has gained 57.6 per cent from the year’...

J D Wetherspoon (JDW.L) fell deeper into the red for its fiscal 2021 and said it had like many other businesses found it hard to attract workers in some areas ...

Changes to Britain’s border rules this week which prevent European Union ID cards from being accepted as proof of identity could compound existing issues for freight entering the United ...

Non-performing loans (NPLs) decreased by €142 million in June 2021, according to data released by the Central Bank of Cyprus. This decrease reflects a 2.8 per cent aggregate drop compared to the previous ...