Global stock markets declined while crude prices and haven assets gained on Monday after an attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure knocked out half the country’s production over the weekend and raised geopolitical risks.

EU chiefs said they heard nothing new from Boris Johnson after a high profile visit to Luxembourg that ended with an abandoned press conference and an extraordinary public reprimand from the country’s prime minister Xavier Bettel. 

JPMorgan’s head of precious metals trading has been charged by US prosecutors with running an eight-year conspiracy to manipulate markets and defraud customers.

Moody’s has downgraded Hong Kong’s rating outlook to negative, citing growing risks to the Asian financial hub’s institutional strength, but maintained its current rating in a break with the recent downgrade by rival Fitch Ratings.

The head of the UK markets regulator has called on Brussels to offer more equivalence permits to smooth potential disruption to markets if the UK leaves the EU without a deal next month.

Petra Diamonds said its full-year loss has widened and warned it expected the diamond market to remain “challenging” in months to come, saying the industry is in its worst state since the financial crisis that began in 2008.

Eddie Stobart warned its full-year operating profit would be “significantly below the board’s expectations” as it revealed it was in talks with its lenders and considering plans to raise new equity.

Aldi, the discount food supermarket, plans to more than double the number of stores in the London area to 100 after smaller-format shops proved more successful than expected.

Shares in crude producers across Asia-Pacific jumped on Monday following an attack on a major Saudi oil installation over the weekend that has temporarily hit half of the Gulf country’s crude output. Meanwhile, emerging Asia currencies and airline stocks fell. 

Growth in industrial output from Chinese factories fell to a fresh low in August, in another sign of how the US-China trade war and slowing economic activity is weighing on the world’s second-biggest economy. 

The coming week will bring a flurry of interest rate decisions from major central banks, as policymakers react to a softer global economy and uncertainties over US-China trade and Brexit.

Treasuries chalked up their worst week — and small-caps their best — since 2016 as investors extended a sweeping rotation away from the momentum plays and bonds that had been favoured over summer.

Shares in cyber security group Cloudflare surged by 20 per cent in its first day of trading on Friday, signalling strong investor demand for the latest Silicon Valley security listing.

The lights have been turned off on MoviePass, the once-heralded theatre subscription service.

US stocks were mixed Friday, as investors looked ahead to a highly-anticipated rate decision by the Federal Reserve.

Goldman Sachs said it expects Apple to lose about a quarter of its market value over the next year as its profits take a hit from the accounting method the company will take for its Apple TV+ trial, a claim that was rejected by the iPhone maker.

PG&E has reached an $11bn settlement with insurance claimants related to the utility’s role in a series of deadly wildfires that ravaged northern California in 2017 and 2018 and triggered its filing for bankruptcy earlier this year.

US retail sales climbed more than expected last month driven by purchases at auto dealers and online retailers, however an underlying gauge of consumer demand grew at its slowest pace in six months.

UK retailer Marks and Spencer will start selling fresh greens and herbs grown on site in some of its London stores in partnership with Berlin start-up Infarm.

Boris Johnson will hold Brexit negotiations with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in Luxembourg on Monday, according to UK officials.

Wages in the eurozone increased at their fastest clip in a decade as the regional labour market shows it has stayed strong despite weakening economic growth.

JD Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin has lashed out at “elite Remainers” for ignoring the long-term benefits of leaving the EU after his pub group said that profits dropped more than 4 per cent owing to higher costs during the year. 

Ovo has struck a £500m deal to buy the household business of larger rival SSE in a bold move that will make it Britain’s biggest energy supplier behind British Gas.

Cyber security group Cloudflare has priced shares in its initial public offering at $15 apiece on Thursday, higher than its already boosted target range, to raise $525m.