Snap has opted to promote two executives internally to its finance and human resources chief roles, as part of a management overhaul after the social media company suffered a string of high-profile departures.

Vedanta Resources is urgently seeking a meeting with the Zambian government over the future of its Konkola Copper Mines subsidiary, which President Edgar Lugu wants to nationalise.

Technology stocks dragged Wall Street lower on Monday as investors measured the implications of the trade dispute between China and the US.

Conservative grandee Michael Heseltine has had the Conservative whip suspended after declaring his intention to vote for the Liberal Democrats in the European Elections.

Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has named Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba as prime minister following months of wrangling with former head of state Joseph Kabila’s political party.

A widely-watched measure of inflation expectations fell to its lowest level since January on Monday, as the renewed trade dispute between Washington and Beijing adds to concerns over the health of the US economy.

The sell-off in chipmakers is going from bad to worse.

Glencore has appointed a new temporary head of its cobalt trading business, a department that has become a growing focus for investors due to the metal’s use in electric cars.

Chipmakers across the world took a hit on Monday from the fallout surrounding the US crackdown on Chinese technology group Huawei, with stocks in major suppliers tumbling to the lowest level in more than two months.

The chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission has backed the proposed $26bn merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, after the companies made concessions to try to get the deal over the line.

Pakistan’s central bank has increased interest rates, as expected, citing the need to contain inflation and a devaluation of the rupee, which has shed nearly 6 per cent in two months.

A push into higher margin online services and home devices helped Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi weather a “challenging” quarter for phone sales in its home market and swing back into profit.

Jaguar Land Rover swung to a profit in the final quarter of the year after early rounds of cost cutting at the UK’s largest carmaker.

Greenpeace activists have blocked access to BP’s London headquarters, demanding the energy major end new oil and gas exploration and switch to renewable investments.

London-listed materials maker Low & Bonar said on Monday its chief executive would be leaving as it warned the US-China trade war was taking a toll on its results and said it needed to expedite its turnround efforts.

Volodymyr Zelensky was sworn in as president of Ukraine on Monday and immediately called parliamentary elections in the hope that an early poll will help him to consolidate power after his landslide victory.

Goldman Sachs is in exclusive talks to buy European budget hotel chain B&B Hotels from private equity group PAI Partners for nearly €2 billion.

Crude prices rallied on Monday after key producer Saudi Arabia said supplies were “plentiful” and signalled it would back sustained output cuts, boosting the currencies of oil producing countries.

China’s Ganfeng Lithium, the country’s second-biggest producer of the electric car raw material, agreed to buy a 30 per cent stake in London-listed Bacanora Minerals, backing its plans to build a lithium mine in Mexico.

Shares in Australia’s big banks rose sharply on Monday following the ruling conservative party’s surprise victory in the country’s general election, setting aside expectations of further financial industry reform promised by the opposition.

Australia’s Lynas Corp is forming a joint venture with a Texas-based rare earths company to build a processing plant in the US, looking to capitalise on a gap in the US supply chain for raw materials critical to the electronics and energy industry.

Japanese gross domestic product unexpectedly grew in the first quarter of year, as the world’s third-largest economy was boosted by better-than-expected exports. 

Japan is more likely to go ahead with a controversial rise in consumption tax this autumn after the economy unexpectedly grew by an annualised 2.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2019.

The Australian dollar sprang higher in early trade on Monday after the country’s ruling conservatives won a “miracle” victory in elections over the weekend.