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Nonetheless, US Federal Reserve expected to trim bond buys by a further $10bn today.

International Monetary Fund says Russia experiencing two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Two former Anglo Irish bankers, found guilty of handing out illegal loans, avoid prison.

Over-50s holidays to insurance group Saga said it plans to float

Ukraine's economy shrunk in the first quarter of 2014 as political turmoil engulfed the country.

Total sales in the 17 weeks to 26 April 2014 up 4%

Sales in the third quarter saw a reduction of 7.6% against the same period last year.

Lord Burns presented his resignation as a member of Santander's board in January

British lender will release details of its non-core assets bank

Wild was interim CEO since January after Lance Batchelor said he would step down

German group set to pay nearly one billion pounds for the deal

Ramsay was allegedly asked to step down after an internal investigation revealed a series of leaks.

Sergei Lavrov says sanctions are work of 'weak politicians trying to blame others'

Crisis in Russia and further lawsuits ensure British Petroleum unlikely to know stability for a while.

Sanctions by Washington are highly personal attack on Russian president

China's Tsingtao Brewery has posted a jump in profits from the previous year.

Singapore has overtaken the British capital as the top overseas clearing centre for China's RMB.

Oxford University study shows that financial journalists have not unduly 'bashed bankers' between 2007 and 2013

International Monetary Fund report slashes growth prospects for eastern Europe amid an 'unusual constellation of risks'.

McGee received around £9m in bonuses last year

Shanghai-listed medium-sized Chinese lender proposes to float 3.4 billion shares in HK.

Bank of England will test UK's lenders on whether it can withstand a housing market collapse

The English National Opera hires Brit film director Mike Leigh and US' Peter Sellars

Gazprom warns deeper sanctions could lead to Europe's gas supplies being cut off.

Cirrus offers 235p for each Wolfson share

Nokia reported a profits increase of 10% for first quarter.

The Portman Group says the label "encourages both anti-social behaviour and rapid drinking"

Whitbread's chief executive Andy Harrison unveiled a surge in revenues at the parent company

Director of the SFO has opened criminal investigation borne of suspicions of corruption in Ukraine.