ECONOMY

BoE will release the minutes of its latest MPC meeting at 9:30 hrs GMT.

Dovish comments by Fed chief Ben Bernanke fail to boost regional sentiment.

Bank will pay $13bn to settle claims over mortgage asset quality misrepresentation.

Total personal debt rises to £1.4tn, with average household debt standing at £54,000.

Fashion chain slumps from peak of 31 countries including the US, Canada and France.

Scottish National Party promises job boom on back of handout to companies.

Campaign group says manufacturers fear thousands of jobs could be lost if green levies go.

Ofcom report shows effect of 2007 relaxation of gambling advertising rules by parliament.

About a third of US metros to report stagnant or negative economic growth.

Administrator Moorfields Corporate Recovery said more than two in 10 of the job losses will fall across Scotland.

United States must abolish debt ceiling to help speed up global growth, warns OECD.

Multi-trillion dollar foreign currency markets largely unregulated.

A report says Apple has acquired PrimeSense, the motion control experts behind the first-generation Kinect sensor.

Campaign group Making Change at Walmart highlights 'illegal firings'.

Foreign investment in China up 5.8% in the first ten months to $97bn.

Business Minister Jo Swinson says the employee owned business model and be more profitable.

Npower becomes most complained about energy firm in Britain and has axed jobs despite bumper profits

The gas industry funded a movie to present fracking in a positive light but the total amount was only revealed recently

Office for National Statistics data points to generally rosy picture for graduates in Britain.

Reclassification of assets means no impact on public sector deficit from privatisation.

Italy's Largest Airline was refused a €300m capital increase from Air France.

Thousands of victims of Bernie Madoff's fraud may start pursuing $2.35bn in compensation.

Philippines' economic planning chief Arsenio Balisacan says costs of reconstruction may reach 250bn pesos.

Ursula Lidbetter replaces Wardle after he led the board that appointed Paul Flowers who was filmed buying drugs

German ZEW economic survey's results due at 10:00 hrs GMT.

French government responds to pressure to change tax policies that have stoked unpopularity and criticism.

Activist investor Carl Icahn says he is 'very cautious' on the stock market.

The regulator is delving into foreign exchange traders' private accounts to see if they traded their own money

Co-op launched a "root and branch" review of the way it is run following the drugs scandal.