Dutch prosecutors have charged four military and intelligence officers from Russia and Ukraine with murder and involvement in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, ramping up international pressure on Moscow over the downing of the jet which killed all 298 people on board.

Donald Tusk has said that he is “cautiously optimistic” that European leaders will be able to reach a deal on EU top jobs at a summit meeting tomorrow in Brussels, saying there is “common will” to get an agreement before July 2.

Vanguard has escalated the price war raging in Europe’s asset management market after firing a broadside that threatens the profits of rival UK-based fund managers.

Many more airlines are likely to follow Germany’s Lufthansa in issuing profit warnings, a major investment bank said on Wednesday, as it flagged “rapidly weakening demand” in the sector.

A UN expert has concluded that there is “credible evidence” that demands further investigation regarding the responsibility of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other senior officials for the grisly killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

Hargreaves Lansdown has told the Treasury select committee that it initiated monthly calls with Neil Woodford to address mounting liquidity problems — even as Britain’s biggest fund supermarket continued to include the fund on its “best buy” list.

UK manufacturing orders have fallen to their lowest level in nearly three years, according to a key sector survey, raising fears of underlying weakness in the factory industry after it was boosted by a stockpiling spree in the first quarter.

The Guernsey stock exchange harboured concerns about the valuations of the listed assets of Neil Woodford’s flagship even after the fund froze over £3bn of investors’ money.

The head of Duff & Phelps’s European secondary market business has left the US corporate finance advisory firm, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Stocks cooled on Wednesday as attention turned toward the Federal Reserve’s stance on monetary policy just a day after one of the strongest rallies of the year followed a signal of more potential stimulus from the European Central Bank.

The Scottish economy expanded 0.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2019, matching the pace set by the UK as a whole.

Inflation in the UK dropped slightly in May, with falling transport fares and car prices contributing most to the change.

Airbus kept up the sales momentum for its new long-range jet, securing the backing from Indigo Partners of the US for 50 aircraft on Wednesday at the Paris air show.

South Korea has called for victims of wartime forced labour to be compensated by funds from Japanese and South Korean companies, as tensions between the two east Asian neighbours simmer over Japan’s colonial-era treatment of South Koreans.

Lossmaking Blue Prism, whose losses deepened in the first half, has agreed to buy software group Thoughtonomy for up to £80m as it seeks to expand its cloud-based products and drive into artificial intelligence.

Nokia has secured a €1.5bn credit facility that will be priced dependent on the Finnish mobile equipment maker hitting its sustainability targets, as companies and lenders seek to increase their exposure to green financing.

The UK’s financial regulator is to take further steps to clamp down on poor pensions transfer advice, as it warned that too much advice on the market “is still not of an acceptable standard”.

Fines handed out by Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission nearly doubled over the past year to HK$940m ($120m) as the securities watchdog cracked down on shoddy work on initial public offerings by global banks such as UBS, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup.

Acacia Mining has hit back at its biggest shareholder Barrick Gold, promising a detailed response to claims that its mine plans are not appropriately risked or supportable.

Berkeley Group is looking beyond its traditional London stomping ground, as political and economic uncertainty continue to weigh on the capital’s housing market. 

The chief investment officer of the listed property group Capital & Counties is to leave the company as it prepares for a potential demerger of its large-scale Earls Court development site.

FTSE 250 bank CYBG will begin retiring the 175-year-old Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank brands and rename itself Virgin Money UK by the end of this year, as part of a push to significantly speed up its growth and raise returns by almost a fifth in the next three years.

Royal London, the UK’s biggest mutual life insurer, has ended a six month search for a new chief executive by appointing former Prudential and Standard Life executive Barry O’Dwyer to the role.

Whitbread, the leisure group behind Premier Inn, blamed a sharp deterioration in business travel because of Brexit and fears of a downturn as it performed worse than the rest of the UK hotel market.