US employment rose more than expected for the second month in a row in July and wages picked up, bolstering expectations of faster economic growth, and raising the probability of a Federal Reserve interest rate increase this year.

Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia said Thursday it aims to accelerate savings after costs of absorbing former French-American rival Alcatel-Lucent pushed it into a second-quarter loss.

US bank JPMorgan Chase denied Friday that it ever intended to buy troubled Italian rival BMPS, as people close to the alleged deal had reported.

Bitcoin, a Florida judge says, is not real money. Ironically, that could provide a boost to use of the crypto-currency which has remained in the shadows of the financial system.

Two business groups sued the Obama administration on Thursday over a crackdown on US companies that try to reduce their US taxes by rebasing abroad in a process known as inversion.

When police stopped a van that was travelling across central Afghanistan to the western city of Herat, they were in for a big surprise: it was full of Western tourists.

A federal judge rejected PricewaterhouseCoopers' bid to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit accusing the accounting firm of professional malpractice for helping cause the October 2011 bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a brokerage once run by former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

WILL India, a $2 trillion (£1.5 trillion) economy with 1.3 billion consumers, now become a truly single market?

Alibaba Group Holding Inc is not making an investment in Netflix Inc, Alibaba spokesman Bob Christie told Reuters on Friday.

Nissan Motor Co is in talks with Panasonic Corp and overseas companies including Chinese firms over the possible sale of its controlling stake in a car battery manufacturing venture, sources said.

The world's largest maker of diabetes treatments, Novo Nordisk, on Friday lowered its annual sales and profit growth forecast, citing price pressure in the United States, as it posted a 19 percent rise in quarterly earnings.

Toyota Motor Corp flagged its smallest annual profit in four years for 2016/17 as the Japanese automaker braces for the impact from a strengthening yen amid slowing demand for some of its car models in the key North American market.

Nokia's second-quarter profit fell more sharply than expected as telecom operators around the world spent less on faster mobile networks, prompting the company to lift its cost-cutting target following its merger with Alcatel-Lucent.

India's Rajya Sabha backed a major tax reform on Wednesday that seeks to transform the country into a common market, though opposition benches urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley not to overtax businesses and consumers.

In early October 2008, then Business Minister Shriti Vadera called a secret meeting of bankers and government officials on the top floor of Standard Chartered's City of London headquarters to address Britain's biggest peacetime crisis. The collapse of Lehman

UK interest rates have been cut from 0.5 percent to 0.25 percent and the Bank of England has signalled that they could go lower if the economy worsens.

Ford Motor Company on Thursday announced the recall of 830,000 cars and vans in the United States and Mexico for the replacement of faulty side-door latches.

AirAsia, Asia's biggest budget airline, will kick off the sale of its leasing unit this month, seeking to cut debt with a deal that could value the business at about $1 billion, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Marking an end to the long and tumultuous debate on goods and services tax, India's Rajya Sabha yesterday approved a crucial constitutional amendment clearing the way for its biggest tax reform since independence. The Lok Sabha had already passed the key bill.

STANDARD Chartered reported an underlying pretax profit of $994 million in the six months to end-June, as cost-cutting, steady income and fewer bad loans helped the bank return to the black after a billion dollar loss in the second half of 2015.