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Britain is turbo-charging its no-deal Brexit preparations and will be ready to leave the bloc with or without a deal on Oct 31, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday.

Heineken NV , the world's second-largest brewer, missed estimates for first-half profit on Monday, as rising input costs offset higher beer sales.

Shares in London Stock Exchange Group Plc rose more than 10per cent on Monday after the British company said late Friday it was in discussions to buy Refinitiv Holdings Ltd in deal worth US$27 billion including debt.

German airline Lufthansa is considering adopting a corporate holding structure to simplify its operations, improve profitability and regain the support of investors, newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Monday.

Barclays , JPMorgan , RBS , UBS and Citigroup , are being sued by investors over allegations they rigged the global foreign exchange market, in the latest test of Britain's U.S.-style class action regime.

SEOUL: Korean Air Lines will suspend its flights between the South Korean city of Busan and Japan's Sapporo from Sep 3 because of falling demand amid a worsening diplomatic and economic row between the two neighbours. Last month, Japan tightened controls of exports of high-tech materials to South ...

Heineken NV , the world's second-largest brewer, missed estimates for first-half profit on Monday, as rising input costs offset higher beer sales.

Trump administration infighting is holding up approval of the first major U.S. offshore wind energy project, with agencies sparring over whether the proposal does enough to protect the fishing industry, according to interviews and agency documents.

U.S. central bankers are expected to lower borrowing costs this week for the first time since the depths of the financial crisis more than a decade ago. That's the easy part.

Spooked by a global economic slowdown, the U.S. Federal Reserve is seen launching on Wednesday its fifth interest rate-cutting campaign since 1995. It will come despite many signs of strength in the U.S. economy.