MARKETS

CBI president Sir Mike Rake says the cost of leaving will harm Britain's place in the world.

FTSE 100 finished day up 26.23 at 6,995.10 after breaching the 7,000 mark in early trading.

Deal makes Metro Bank the first British bank to use a p2p platform to lend funds to customers.

Bitcoin price remains stable, as Sweden's Nasdaq launches Bitcoin Tracker One.

World's first bitcoin-based security on a regulated exchange launches on Sweden's Nasdaq.

The number of US rigs actively drilling for oil have now fallen for the 23rd week in a row.

US dollar weakened this week, after dismal US data, and the dollar index has now dropped for five weeks in a row.

Nowadays the unglamorous world of retail banking has become the acceptable business model for UK banks.

Chinese markets regulator says its recent move to expedite approvals for IPOs will not have a big impact on the market.

Global gold demand dipped a meager 1% year-on-year to 1,079.3 tonnes in a "generally quiet first-quarter".

Saudi Arabia continues to intensify production, moving market share away from high-cost rivals US shale producers.

The Shanghai Composite index ends a tad higher as excitement over more government stimulus fades.

RBS head of forex trading questioned by US Department of Justice in relation to allegations of market rigging

Riyadh upped crude production and 60% of rigs in US shut.

Help needed to fight extradition and meet bail conditions.

London-based HSBC owns 62.14% of Hong Kong's Hang Seng Bank.

Unemployment is down and wages are up but young people are stubbornly staying out of work and productivity may outpace skills.

Shanghai Composite and the Hang Seng indices settle lower after Beijing put out another set of weak economic data.

Former MasterCard general manager Marcel Roelants joins BitPay, while dogecoin shoots for the moon.

Germanwings disaster and French strikes hit budget airline as Greece sucks life out of FTSE 100.

GBP/USD has upside room up to 1.5875 as long as 1.5200 support holds.

Investing in distressed oil companies could be risky say finance experts.

Morgan Stanley's giant physical oil trading business is the largest and oldest on Wall Street.

Goldman Sachs says that a "sequential decline" in crude oil prices might not begin until later in the year.

Australia to table 2015 federal budget at 10:30am BST and India will release factory and inflation data at 01.00pm BST.

French president, on state visit, urges west to life embargo on Cuba.

FTSE 100 had been buoyed by China's interest rate cut but failed to build on morning momentum

Japanese conglomerate Sharp will make public its restructuring plan on 14 May, after the market closes.

Brent crude could trade at an average price of $60 a barrel in the third-quarter of 2015 and then rise to $65 a barrel.