Australia's ANZ Bank said Tuesday its half-year cash profit would take a Aus$559 million ($376 million) hit as a result of reimbursing customers for unfair fees and dodgy financial advice.

A U.S. businesswoman refused to say Monday whether she had an affair with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he was mayor of London, following claims he gave her privileged access to foreign trade jaunts.

Europe's stock markets rebounded Monday as investors bet that gloomy German economic data would help persuade the European Central Bank to continue its "accommodative" monetary policy, dealers said.

Anglo-Dutch commercial giant Unilever said Monday it will cut its use of new plastic by half by 2025 as pressure grows on multinational companies to do more for the environment.

Greece expects its economy to grow by 2.8 percent in 2020 whilst respecting fiscal pledges to the country's creditors, a draft budget released Monday said.

America's jobless rate tumbled in September to its lowest level in 50 years, helping assuage fears of an economic slowdown, according to government data released Friday.

America's yawning trade deficit rose by nearly $1 billion in August as weakening foreign demand and the churning trade conflict ate into U.S. exports, the government reported Friday.

Netflix on Thursday said it was cooperating with a probe into whether it evaded taxes in Italy, even though it has no office or employees in that country.

With the highest tower in the world, grand commercial centres and artificial islands, Dubai projects an image of prosperity, even as the city-state races to court investors to bolster a flagging economy.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Thursday Europe should react in a "determined way" to new tariffs on billions of dollars worth of European goods announced by the U.S.