Loans worth 170bn yuan (£18.3bn) offered in the first week of July.
BDRC Continental survey of 500 UK firms shows rising number 'forging ahead'.
Troubled banks will need to present detailed restructuring plans to get rescue package.
Workers will go on 24-hour strike as finance minister Yannis Stournaras confirms stricter enforcement of austerity plans.
Ratings agency upgrades UK banks to stable as profit and capital ratios continue to improve.
ETX Capital's market strategist says $8bn aid calmed the markets but it hasn't changed the investment case
Homebuilder says profit for 2012/13 full year would beat the top end of analysts' forecasts.
Alibaba CEO says it will use IPO profits to finance acquisitions as it expands its mobile services
Luxury retailer has maintained full year guidance and expects lower H1 pre-tax profit.
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia stump up billions in cash and fuel to support interim authorities
European Commission will propose the creation of a new group, supervised by the ECB, to determine banks' fate
Investors will track the auction of Italian government bonds during the day
Both exports and imports fell unexpectedly and analysts expect further slowdown
Action group representing 15,000 pensioners say the PRA is risking bank nationalisation with capital requirement demands
Royal Mail offering workers more than 10% stake in privatised company.
IMF trims forecast due to a slowdown in emerging market economies and a recession-struck Europe
2013-14 earnings will reflect an exceptional credit of £145m.
Greece may have secured €6.8bn in aid but more job and spending cuts are on the horizon
Marks and Spencer logs eighth successive quarterly drop in like-for-like sales of general merchandise
Royal Dutch Shell promotes its downstream director to group chief executive from 2014
Regulator will unveil findings of an insurance add-on study at an ABI conference on its 100 day anniversary
BDO International CEO says doing business in the Middle East can open up opportunities around the world
DeVere Group CEO Nigel Green says ‘mansion tax’ on on all homes worth more than £2m is fatally flawed
Greece still has to administer reforms and slash public sector jobs in order to get full €8.1bn tranche.
China expected to inject cash into economy when growth drops to 7%
Seventy retailers sign up to deal ensuring factory inspections in wake of Rana Plaza disaster.
Negotiations open on world's largest trade and investment agreement after two years in preparation.
Daniel Stewart & Co's chief economist Alastair Winter looks at the week ahead for the financial markets
Number of claims filed against BP oil spill compensation fund rose by 18% over the last six weeks
Whistleblower says China-based sales staff allegedly handed doctors cash and other rewards to prescribe Botox