The Securities and Exchange Commission gave final approval to a regulation requiring auditors to tell investors more about what they learned when auditing a company's books.
While the eurozone purchasing manager surveys were a little weaker than expected, they still indicated strong levels of growth that will enable businesses to endure any negative impact from upcoming tapering by the European Central Bank
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has said it will invest $20bn in a new healthcare and real estate fund set up by US private equity group Blackstone
Manufacturing activity continued to drive the eurozone economy in October, according to the latest survey of the region's purchasing managers
Novartis shares traded slightly lower this morning despite the company reporting a good set of third-quarter results.
BrightHouse, the rent-to-own provider said it would provide £14.8m in redress to about 249,000 customers after consultation with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Italy's biggest bank released its third-quarter results on Tuesday - more than two weeks earlier than scheduled - after sending them to investors and analysts overnight by mistake
The US dollar weakened overnight as uncertainty washed about over US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen
Bithumb, which claims to be the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, says Bitcoin is poised to reach nearly $7,000. Trading prices have already reached $6,100 per coin.
Netflix is to raise $1.6bn (£1.2bn) through an institutional bond issue. It said the money might pay for “content acquisitions, production and development, capital expenditures, investments, working capital and potential acquisitions and strategic transactions”.
The euro area government deficit to GDP ratio fell from 2.1% in 2015 to 1.5% in 2016, and in the EU28 from 2.4% to 1.7%. The euro area GDP ratio fell from 89.9% (2015) to 88.9% (2016), and in the EU28 from 84.5% to 83.2%, according to EU statistics body Eurostat.
Barclays Bank says it is making serious efforts to tackle the outsized number of customer complaints which saw it lead the FCA's complaints table
Johnstone Press' share price fell precipitously to 11% in afternoon trading after news that activist investor, Custos Group, failed in its weekend attempt to oust the company's management.
Connecticut-based insurer Hartford Financial Services is paying $1.45bn to buy health insurer Aetna’s unit that provides life and disability income and other insurance products to employers' benefits programs.
Cameroon's chief cocoa-growing region has been hit by an outbreak of black-pod disease, destroying large areas of the African country's main crop
