UK newspaper group Reach, formerly known as Trinity Mirror, announced on Monday it had appointed a new chief financial officer. 

Ryanair has reported a 22 per cent fall in pre-tax profit to €345m in its first quarter over last year as it blamed strikes, fuel and air traffic controllers for boosting costs.

Brussels has rejected the UK’s proposals on how to govern the City of London’s access to the European market after Brexit, saying Theresa May’s latest financial services plan would rob the EU of its “decision-making autonomy”.

Donald Trump has issued an apparent warning to Iran and further muddied his position on Russian interference in the 2016 US election in a series of statements on Twitter. 

The People's Bank of China injected Rmb502bn ($74bn) of cash into the banking system on Monday morning through loans to commercial banks, the latest sign that policymakers are moving to ease monetary policy as the economy slows.

Shares in Russian aluminium producer Rusal jumped to a three-month high on Monday after US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested the US was open to finding a solution to sanctions placed on the company.

Asia-Pacific equities were choppy on Monday amid fresh fears that trade tensions risk undermining the global economy.

Japanese sovereign debt yield rose on Monday after speculation around reported potential changes to the country’s central bank policy.

State-owned China Tower Corporation will seek to raise up to $8.68bn in a Hong Kong initial public offering that is expected to be the largest flotation on the Asian stock exchange in several years.

The yen firmed and the dollar held its losses in early trading on Monday after fresh concerns over global trade sent jitters through the markets late last week. 

Wesfarmers will retain a 15 per cent stake in Coles following its planned demerger of the supermarket chain in November, the Australian retail-to-industrial conglomerate said on Monday.

The schism in global trade relations was laid bare at a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Argentina over the weekend, who warned that increasing trade tensions risk undermining the global economy.

To borrow from Bette Davis: Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy err week.

Alongside developments in the global trade war, investors have a lot of corporate earnings, US GDP data, monetary policy and an election to follow. Here’s what to watch in the coming days.

It seemed like a case of “It’s Friday, ding the bell already” for stocks, as investors were hit with a stream of Trump-related news, ranging from plans for more tariffs on Chinese imports and displeasure with the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to media reports about his personal life.

Stocks were in a state of torpor on Friday afternoon as investors weighed the Trump administration’s plans to impose tariffs on $500bn of Chinese imports, as well as criticisms from the US president directed toward the Federal Reserve.

Europe’s top banking regulator has rejected a hedge fund’s request for it to investigate whether a big chunk of the core capital at Italy’s biggest bank was invalid.

Analysts were left scratching their heads on Friday as the difference between two- and 10-year Treasury yields came off its lows, moving towards 30 basis points for the first time in almost two weeks.

Hikma Pharmaceuticals was among London’s biggest gainers on hopes that shortages of generic painkillers will provide an earnings boost. Expectations of a price squeeze came after Pfizer, which supplies about three-quarters of the US market for injectable opioids, suspended production at an Indian plant.

Shares in State Street tumbled at the open on Friday after the world’s second biggest trust announced a deal to buy Charles River Development for $2.6bn.

Deutsche Bank will pay nearly $75m to settle charges it improperly handled US securities that represent shares in overseas companies, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday.

Private equity group PAI Partners has entered exclusive talks to buy Asmodee, the company behind the cult Catan strategy games, from Eurazeo for €1.2bn including debt, according to two people familiar with the transaction.

US stocks cautiously edged up leaving Wall Street eyeing its third week of gains while the US dollar fell sharply after President Trump threatened tariffs on all imports out of China a day after taking a swipe at the Federal Reserve.

The Japanese yen briefly firmed on Friday in the wake of media reports suggesting the country’s central bank was weighing changes to its interest rate targets and asset-purchase programmes.

Krispy Kreme is carb-loading.

The North Carolina-based doughnut and coffee chain on Friday said it will acquire a majority stake in Insomnia Cookies for an undisclosed sum in a move that will expand parent JAB Holding’s coffee and resturant portfolio.