European stock markets jumped Tuesday, while the pound steadied after strong UK jobs data as traders braced for more Brexit chaos and awaited the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting.

Global fans of a traditional British Christmas could be in for a disappointment when the season comes around this year.

Brexit uncertainty is putting orders for staples such as Cadbury chocolates and British mince pies in doubt.

The British unemployment rate has struck a 44-year low, official data showed Tuesday, despite a broader economic slowdown as Brexit looms.

Fisker, the electric car brand which was an early rival to Tesla, announced Monday it would produce a new sport utility vehicle priced below $40,000 that will be available next year.

Wall Street stocks edged higher from five-month highs early Monday ahead of a Federal Reserve interest rate decision later this week.

Lyft said Monday it would seek to raise some $2 billion in its public share offering, in the first major listing in the ride-hailing sector.

Global sales of counterfeit and pirated goods have soared to 460 billion euros ($522 billion) a year, amounting to a whopping 3.3 percent of world trade, according to a report published Monday.

OPEC nations and allied oil producers met in Azerbaijan on Monday to review a strategy of production cutbacks that has propped up crude prices.

There is virtually no chance the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the coming week, since policymakers have all but promised to hold their fire as the global economy slows.

Bent over a barrel, Greek microbrewer Sophocles Panagiotou lovingly draws a measure of his Septem Red Ale into a glass cylinder and expertly transfers it to a glass.