Top British bankers will tell finance minister Philip Hammond on Wednesday to give them a clearer idea of what the country's divorce from the European Union will mean for them when they hold their first meeting since the Brexit vote.

Canada's central bank maintained its key lending rate at 0.5 percent Wednesday while signaling hope for an economic rebound in the coming months following a dismal first half of 2016.

Ukraine said on Wednesday it may deliver the world's largest jet -- originally developed for the Soviet Union's abandoned space shuttle programme -- to China within the next five years.

Amazon said it would start delivering meals from restaurants direct to customers in some parts of London, the newest entrant to an increasingly competitive market which includes Just Eat, UberEats and Deliveroo.

Microsoft Corp is introducing a complete set of cloud services from data centres in Britain, its second biggest market for cloud-based software after the United States, as demand for data localisation spreads across Europe and around the world.

A push by some euro zone countries to issue debt that won't need repaying for many decades may come at a price - but for borrowers who lived through the bloc's 2010-2012 crisis, it's probably a price worth paying.

A Yunus Social Business Centre was opened in Perak state in Malaysia to foster social business innovation.

China's regulators on Monday issued revised rules on foreign institutional investments in the country's domestic securities using the yuan currency, another step forward in opening up its markets and encouraging more fund inflows.

The government of the United Arab Emirates has approved a final draft of a much-awaited bankruptcy law that it hopes will strengthen confidence in the regional business hub.

A cartoon widely circulated in Saudi Arabia on Twitter last month showed three old men in traditional robes, named Unemployment, Prices and Poverty, looking down at a young boy with torn clothes named Salary.

New British leader Theresa May sought to start shaping her country's post-EU access to world markets on Monday, but faced a Japanese warning over the fallout from Brexit and the US saying it was not its first priority.

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Two private Iranian banks will open branches in Munich, officials confirmed Monday, as the Islamic republic looks for ways around ongoing barriers to international financing.

Crude oil futures pared gains on Monday after top producers Russia and Saudi Arabia said they have agreed to cooperate on stabilising the oil market, including limiting output.

The world's two biggest oil producers Saudi Arabia and Russia said Monday they had agreed to "act together" to try to stabilise oil prices, but failed to make headway on a production freeze.

Chinese visitors to the United Arab Emirates will now be granted visas on arrival, the Gulf state's prime minister announced on Sunday, in a new bid to boost tourism.

India's outgoing central bank chief Raghuram Rajan warned countries against a rush to low interest rates as his tenure as governor of the Reserve Bank of India came to an end.

Activity in Britain's crucial services sector recorded a record jump in August, rebounding strongly from a slump immediately following the country's vote to exit the EU, a survey showed Monday.

Growth in India's services industry accelerated to its fastest pace in more than 3-1/2 years in August, driven by a surge in domestic and foreign demand, but companies had a tough time raising prices, a private survey showed on Monday.

China's technology giant Tencent has become the country's most valuable enterprise, Bloomberg reported Monday, beating state-owned telecom behemoth China Mobile and nearly reaching half of Apple's valuation.