Juul’s chief executive Kevin Burns has said underage use of ecigarettes has become a “serious” problem as the company pulled sweet flavours of its nicotine liquids from more than 90,000 retailers to comply with an imminent regulatory crackdown.

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Oil lurched lower on Tuesday with US crude extending its longest losing streak on record and eyeing its worst day in over two and a half years.

Susanna Dinnage, a senior executive at US TV network Discovery, has been selected to be the next chief executive of the English Premier League, one of the world’s most watched and valuable sporting competitions.

Angela Merkel has backed Emmanuel Macron’s call for the creation of a European army, using a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg to make a passionate appeal for closer defence co-operation between EU member states.

Tyson Foods, one of the biggest food producers in the world, said it will raise prices across its business segments in an effort to claw back higher costs associated with tariffs, freight and labour.

Goldman Sachs on Tuesday added to the chorus of Wall Street analysts with downbeat views of Apple iPhone sales after some of the company’s suppliers lowered their revenue expectations.

AllianceBernstein has launched a new version of its virtual bond trading assistant “Abbie” that will now be able to suggest junk bond trades to the investment group’s fund managers, highlighting how asset managers and banks are trying to modernise the fixed income universe.

The British pound ripped higher, adding to its earlier gains on Tuesday, amid growing optimism a Brexit deal is close to being agreed.

Russia will boycott next year’s World Economic Forum in Davos if the conference does not remove restrictions barring three US-sanctioned businessmen from attending, prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.

Ken Griffin, the billionaire head of one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, has slammed Donald Trump’s criticism of the Federal Reserve, calling it “completely inappropriate for the president of the United States” and warning it could undermine confidence in the dollar.

Treasuries rallied and US stocks struggled for direction on Tuesday, having declined in each of the past three sessions, as gains by tech were offset by a decline in oil prices.

Investor nervousness over General Electric’s health is rising, sending the price of its bonds sliding, lifting the cost of insuring against the company defaulting on its debts to a fresh six-and-a-half-year high and causing one big bond investor to warn of a broader bond market rout.

Authorities in Northern California were on Tuesday starting the search for more victims of what is already the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history with at least 228 people still listed as missing.

The government will set in motion in December the process to determine which UK airport will get a new runway, before ground has even been broken for the last runway it approved.

WeWork has secured an additional $3bn of funding from SoftBank at a $42bn valuation even as the flexible office provider’s losses ballooned to $2bn on an annual basis.*

The first batch of claims against UK supermarket Morrisons over equal pay for store workers has been lodged with the Employment Tribunal, law firm Leigh Day said in a statement on Tuesday.

Elliott Management has levied a series of demands on Hyundai Motor including returning more than £8bn to investors and reviewing all of its non-core businesses, in the latest salvo over the corporate running of South Korea’s second largest conglomerate.

Investors have made a speedy retreat from the technology sector after its heavy sell-off in October, a survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch suggests — a rare stumble for one of the markets’ most popular trades.

The pound remained in thrall to the twists and turns of Brexit talks on Tuesday, with hopes for a deal within days sending it sharply above its lows.

Wall Street futures were higher on Tuesday morning after hopes for a resolution in the US-China trade war were buoyed by the two countries agreeing to resume talks ahead of a meeting this month.

RSA is to cut about a third of the business that it writes in London’s specialist and wholesale insurance markets.

Home Depot lifted its sales and profits outlook for the second time this year, as the home improvement retailer continues to cash in from a robust US housing market that has seen Americans invest in their homes.

Brazil’s incoming president has appointed a retired four-star general, the highest army rank in the country, as his defence minister.