MARKETS

The US dollar continued to rally on Friday, pushing down major currencies to new lows

Alibaba's stock has hovered near the top of NYSE's most-active list each day since its 19 September debut.

The Swiss-Italian family have been injecting funds into the airline and looking for backers

Investigation reveals $10bn worth of fake trades and could lead to 15 cases of criminal fraud.

Sistema chairman ordered to stay under house arrest until November 16 by Moscow court.

EU preparing for possibility of importing Iranian natural gas in event of sanctions lift

The insurance market's pre-tax profit jumped by 21% in the first half of the year.

The FCA unveils latest complaints data concerning financial services firm

Ashley placed a put option on 23 million shares.

The fall in major currencies was also driven by a stronger-than-expected US data that pushed the dollar index to a new four-year high.

Sports Direct tycoon entered into a put option for 23 million shares

Hampton will join GSK in January 2015 as a non-executive director before assuming chairman's role.

Parliamentary business committee chairman Adrian Bailey says executives may have to explain themselves.

Bank of England Deputy governor Nemat 'Minouche' Shafik warns of gap between two key indicators.

UK and Spain sales expected to grow amid stable outlook for global automotive industry.

MetaQuotes Software, the developer of the online trading platforms MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, is pleased to announce an expansion into the Middle Eastern area. MetaFintech LLC has become the company's official agent in the largest international business centre of the Middle East - Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Rumours circulated last month about Hampton joining the pharmaceutical group

Taiwan's central bank is scheduled to announce its policy rates on Thursday.

India's Supreme Court cancels 214 of 218 coal mine permits given to firms since 1993.

The investment bank cut its recommendation on Rightmove to sell

Russian stock market has been extremely volatile and seen a high volume of trading on Ukraine news.

The GBP/CHF cross is just 20 pips away from a new two-year high.

Hundreds of Polish miners blocked a border passage with Russia.

The SEC awarded the anonymous whistleblower for helping to recover a substantial amount of cash

Citizens' stock to debut on NYSE later today under the ticker symbol 'CFG'.

The fraud investigators want the government to improve its budget by 50%.

Barclays was fined hours earlier by Britain's FCA for failing to protect customer assets.

The real has fallen more than 7.3% so far this month compared to the 2.8% fall in Chile's and the 4% drop in Colombia's currencies.

Boss Antony Jenkins says the bank's defence is 'strong' and will 'robustly defend allegations'