Theresa May sets out plans to get big business behind her Brexit strategy, toning down plans to put workers on company boards and promising to spend billions of pounds on science, technology and research.
LONDON BP has created a new executive committee to explore business in Iran which will exclude its American chief executive Bob Dudley in a bid to avoid potential violations of U.S. sanctions still in place.
BERLIN Iraq's foreign minister said on Monday that the fight to wrest back control of Mosul from Islamic State was making progress, citing what he called better-than-expected cohesion within Iraqi security forces and the U.S.-led coalition.
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Monday extended indefinitely to all Roman Catholic priests the power to forgive abortion, a right previously reserved for bishops or special confessors in most parts of the world.
ANKARA Donald Trump's victory and the war on Islamic State have given Iran's hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps what it sees as a unique opportunity to claw back economic and political power it had lost.
Cyber criminals have remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe this year, using malicious software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber security firm Group IB.
LONDON Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said on Monday it was trying to ascertain if Yahoo! Inc's decision to scan clients' email accounts at the behest of the U.S. authorities last year broke European law.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| GB 10YR |
+1.470
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+0.012 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.275
|
-0.006 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.034
|
+0.006 |
| Name | GBP | USD | EUR |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBP | 1 | 0.8007 | 0.8500 |
| USD | 1.2489 | 1 | 1.0585 |
| EUR | 1.1761 | 0.9447 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |
1,207.80
USD
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-8.70
Exp: Nov2016
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| Copper |
2.51
USD
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+0.05
Exp: Nov2016
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| Brent Crude |
49.08
USD
|
+2.22
Exp: Nov2016
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