Ford says it will get out of the business of selling heavy commercial trucks in its troubled Latin American region, as part of its $11bn global restructuring plan.

Wall Street recovered from its morning losses to trade slightly higher on Tuesday afternoon, following upbeat holiday sales at Walmart and improved home builder sentiment.

White House officials have been pushing a plan to sell US nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia in potential defiance of legal restrictions and regulatory procedures, according to an investigation by congressional Democrats.

Former UK prime minister John Major will warn the Conservative party is being “manipulated” by Eurosceptic “zealots”, as he calls on the “mainstream majority” of MPs to take control of Brexit.

Members of Congress have written to Mark Zuckerberg demanding an explanation over allegations that Facebook leaked some of its users’ private health information.

Kazakh miner ERG will temporarily shut one of its key copper and cobalt mines in the Congo, laying off workers in the latest hit to mining sector in the resource-rich country.

Air France-KLM has confirmed that it is reappointing Pieter Elbers as the chief executive of its Dutch subsidiary.

Air France has signed an agreement with its pilots’ union, bringing an end to a costly period of industrial action that led to the resignation of the group’s chief executive.

Lower mortgage rates and strong consumer confidence helped lift US home builder sentiment to a four-month high in February, according to an industry survey.

US lithium producer Livent said it would take legal action against SoftBank-backed miner Nemaska Lithium after it cancelled a multiyear supply agreement.

General Mills and Mondelez have both stuck to their full-year financial forecasts, with both foodmakers pointing to the fruits of recent strategic plans that have been introduced there.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has shrugged off calls for him to change his approach after seven MPs resigned from the party in protest at his leadership.

US stocks look set to drop at the open following a long weekend and as investors continue to wait for a breakthrough in trade talks between Washington and Beijing.

Qatar was “not as central” to Barclays’ plans to raise billions of pounds of fresh capital in early 2008, its former chairman told a high profile fraud trial on Tuesday.

Asda, the UK’s third-largest supermarket, said same-store sales grew by 1 per cent over the fourth quarter, marking its seventh consecutive period of sales growth.

Political groups campaigning on Twitter in upcoming EU elections will be forced to register with the social media platform as part of tougher advertising rules designed to protect European elections from foreign interference.

UK frozen foods group Iceland said same-store sales were lower than expected in Christmas quarter, despite the publicity generated by its controversial “Rang-tan” advertisement.

Indian ride-hailing app Ola has raised Rs650m ($92m) from Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal as part of a fresh round of fundraising.

German financial executives do not expect the slowdown in the eurozone’s biggest economy to cease any time soon, according to a closely watched survey released on Tuesday that showed a persisting decline in confidence.

Britain’s jobs boom continued in the final three months of 2018, despite a slowdown in overall growth and concerns about the impact of Brexit uncertainty on the economy.

The Swedish krona weakened sharply on Tuesday morning following lower-than-expected inflation data, extending a bad start to the year for the currency.

The US company Berry Global Group, which has threatened to gatecrash a proposed £3.3bn takeover of European plastic packaging maker RPC, has been given a March deadline to ‘put up or shut up’ by regulators.

BHP Group, the world’s biggest natural resources company, said it would welcome an independent body to oversee the integrity, operation and construction of tailings dams following a deadly breach in Brazil that is likely to have killed at least 300 people.

HSBC’s revenues “collapsed” in the final weeks of last year amid panicked sell-offs in global financial markets, pulling full-year results for Europe’s biggest bank below expectations just as its new chief executive is pushing to expand in Asia.