BUSINESS

Negotiations with Iran could be bearish for oil prices over the next 18 months, according to BofA's Francisco Blanch.

It is the slowest recovery from recession in living memory - slower even than the recovery from the Great Depression

Labour has produced two hard-hitting party political broadcasts through London agency Lucky Generals.

However, they have also paid 60% of their profits in fines

Ryanair passenger traffic increased 28% in March compared to same month in previous year.

Shares in Cairn India's owners Vedanta Resources and Cairn Energy were up over 3% in London trade.

CBI said economic growth probably reached 0.7% in Q1, up from 0.6% in Q4 of 2014.

Nearly 1,000 firefighters were deployed to tackle at blaze at a chemical plant in Zhangzhou.

Euro is up about 5% so far in April after the 23% decline since June to the 12-year low of last month.

Danske Bank analysts say US Fed FOMC could deliver first rate hike in September.

Athens due to repay around €450m to International Monetary Fund on April 9.

Companies have reached conditional agreement on all-cash offer for shares of TNT Express at €8 per share.

Indian tax officials claim that the company provided inaccurate information when claiming excise tax exemption linked to Himachal Pradesh factory.

RBA leaves the official cash rate at a record low of 2.25% as expected.

Fall related to broad dollar strength as rupee under little pressure from greenback with USD index easing.

Goldman Sachs says it sees little upside for its $40/bbl forecast over the next three months.

Virtu Financial's planned public offering to value the electronic trading firm at about $2.6bn.

Force majeure may be lifted on oil loadings at Es Sider, Libya's largest export terminal and at neighbouring Ras Lanuf.

In his latest Last Week Tonight show, John Oliver prompts Snowden to explain US surveillance.

B and C has hired a senior BoE executive to take up the new post of chief of finance and operations.

Saudi Arabia cut oil prices to Asia and the US late last year, in a battle for market share amid a global supply glut.

IMF says due diligence efforts in Athens and talks with teams in Brussels to resume on 6 April.

Central bank chief Alejandro Vanoli reportedly said that regulators will perform "comprehensive inspection" at the local subsidiary of Citibank.

ISM services PMI, labour market index and speech by Fed's William Dudley will be US events to watch.

Gross says the US Federal Reserve will raise its benchmark rate by 0.5 percentage point a year, taking it to 2% by 2018.

Tehran Stock Exchange's main TEDPIX share average finished 3.09% higher on 4 April.

Lifting of sanctions on Iran following nuclear deal could add to oil supply glut.

Weak US data to fuel speculation that US Fed will wait until September to hike rates, boosting gold's safe-haven status.

The legislation will come into force from 5 April and apply to around 285,000 working couples.