MARKETS

Trading drag on the pound has been nowhere near the frenzy seen earlier in the year.

In total, a quarter of jobs supported by the sector will have been lost by year-end, report says.

Stocks finished lower as oil prices also snapped a 3-day win to end down over 1%.

Online vehicle sales firm Auto Trader posts 27% rise in operating profits to £169.6m.

Shanghai Composite and Hang Seng indices were closed on 9 June amid the Dragon Boat Festival.

Oil futures rose $0.87 to settle at $51.23 a barrel, the first time it closed above $51 since July 2015.

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The dollar has fallen to a fresh four-week low against a basket of global currencies.

Oil futures rose for a third successive session, after a higher than expected drawdown in US crude inventories.

Exports in the world's second largest economy declined 4.1% on-year in May.

UK to grow by 2% in 2016 and by 2.1% in 2017, World Bank says.

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The Anglo-Dutch multinational said it would cut $4.5bn of spending before tax in 2018.

The US Federal Reserve Chair hinted that the American central bank would not increase interest rates in June.

The move comes following discontent over LME increasing its fees.

This was revealed in Mine 2016, PwC's 13th annual review of the top trends in the global mining industry.

The Fed chair said a rate hike could still happen despite a disappointing jobs report on 3 June.

US nonfarm payrolls employment data showed that 38,000 jobs were created in May.

UK oil firms do not see Brent crude recovering to a sustained level of $75-80 per barrel until 2020.

Investors awaiting release of US Labor Department's non-farm payroll data for May.

Oil prices rebound to end up after a weekly report revealed a decline in US crude oil inventories.

The JPMorgan global manufacturing PMI declined to 50.0 for May, indicating stagnation.

This redundancy move will help achieve annual savings of €450m by 2019.

Riyadh reportedly in favour of imposing ceiling on Opec's collective crude output to support weak prices.

The meager gains were helped by a bounce in oil prices and better-than-expected manufacturing data.

Opec ministers debate oil market supply and demand ahead of expected policy decision.

A buy-to-let slowdown and EU referendum fears have put some investors off house builders in Britain.

The private Caixin/Markit survey showed that activity at China's factories contracted for the month of May.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its first four-month winning streak since June 2014.