A little more pressure on the shared currency as the European trading day develops.

Saudi Arabia is preparing a return to international conventional bond markets as the kingdom seeks to address the budget deficit and underpin economic reform efforts.

Sentiment among German business executives dipped in September for the second month in a row, nudging mildly further away from the record logged this summer, a closely-watched survey released on Monday showed.

Angela Merkel is one of only three post-war Chancellors to secure a fourth term at the helm of the German parliament. However, any sense of personal achievement was overshadowed on the front pages of the national press by the stronger-than-expected performance of the rightwing AfD in the federal elections.

A senior North Korean official who handles relations with the United States left Pyongyang to travel to Russia on Monday, Pyongyang’s official news agency said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap.

The right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany suffered its first split just a day after its stunning success in Germany’s elections, as leader Frauke Petry said she would not sit with the party in the Bundestag.

Hellman & Friedman has agreed to purchase Nets A/S, Scandinavia’s largest payments processor, for $5.3bn, confirming an earlier report by the Financial Times.

Germany’s equities market started Monday on a slightly weak note, after a disappointing performance by Angela Merkel’s party heightened political risk in the eurozone’s biggest economy.

Imagination Technologies’ shares soared 35.6 per cent after the UK chipmaker late last week unveiled a deal to be sold to a China-backed private equity firm.

The euro has taken a mild knock, while the gap in yields between German government bonds and those of traditionally wobblier euro states has widened in the wake of the German election, with investors chewing over the rise of right-wing populists, and the chance of even greater fiscal austerity.

The series of major storms across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in recent weeks has disrupted operations at British industrial group Essentra, it warned today.

A populist surge in the German elections caused the euro to lose half a cent overnight, as Germany’s two big political parties suffered “effectively the worst results since the creation of the Federal Republic,” as one JPMorgan analyst put it.

Aldi’s profits in the UK and Ireland slipped last year even as sales notched a fresh record, the discount grocer said on Monday in the latest sign of the intense competition in the supermarket sector.

A boost in tourists taking advantage of the weak pound has helped to support demand at the properties of West End landlord Shaftesbury, but the FTSE 250 group warned on Monday that economic uncertainty has begun to cause a slowdown in transactions at its larger sites.

Unilever is seeking a stronger presence in the Asian cosmetics industry, and a particular edge in “K-Beauty”, with a deal to buy Carver Korea for €2.27bn.

Swiss engineering group ABB is stepping up its acquisition programme by buying General Electric’s industrial solutions business for $2.6bn.

The head of BP’s trading arm in Asia said global oil consumption led by China is helping to reduce excess crude stockpiles and alleviate pressure on a market now into its third year of a downturn.

Angela Merkel will serve a fourth term as German chancellor after winning Sunday’s election, but her success was marred by falling support for her Christian Democrat-alliance and a bigger-than-expected win for her nationalist opponents.

Australian consumers will no longer face charges when using another bank’s cash point after the country’s four major banks dropped ATM withdrawal fees for domestic users amid greater regulatory scrutiny for the industry.

The Japanese individuals and a Chinese company at the heart of a trade secrets case filed in the US by Hitachi Metals last week have denied allegations that they misappropriated the Japanese company’s proprietary technology.

The euro slipped on Monday following the result of the German election that saw Angela Merkel hold on to power but also increased support for her nationalist opponents.

Hong Kong-listed developers saw share prices drop on Monday as investors reacted to new property sales restrictions imposed across eight major Chinese cities in response to rising house prices.

Markets showed signs of volatility on Monday as investors cooled from the euro after Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democrat-led alliance took a hit in the German election on Sunday.

Japan’s manufacturing sector recorded a third consecutive month of expansion in September, according to a preliminary gauge tracking activity in the sector.