Turkey warned Saudi Arabia that it has evidence on “who is responsible” for the disappearance of a missing Saudi journalist on Friday after the US took a harder line against the kingdom.

The sell-off in Italy’s bond markets rippled through to other eurozone debt on Friday, as fears grew that a stand-off between Rome and Brussels could pose a serious political challenge to the single currency bloc. 

European stocks slipped on Friday after a series of disappointing earning results in the car and construction sectors.

The UK government borrowed less than expected in September in a boost to chancellor Philip Hammond ahead of a key budget.

Michelin suffered its worse stock market fall in seven years on Friday after the tyre maker cut its forecasts and said sales would slow.

Italy’s borrowing costs reached a four-and-a-half-year high on Friday, a day after the EU rebuked Rome’s populist government for breaching eurozone fiscal rules through an “unprecedented” break with its budget promises to Brussels.

Jeremy Hunt, foreign secretary, has claimed that “all but one or two issues” on Brexit have been settled in exit talks, and urged a divided Conservative party to rally behind Prime Minister Theresa May in the final stage of negotiations.

Acacia Mining has threatened to sue the government of Tanzania in international court, warning of increasing concerns about the safety of its staff during its long-running dispute with the administration.

The British billionaire John Whittaker, Canadian asset manager Brookfield and a Saudi group have made a preliminary offer to take the shopping centre landlord Intu private, which values the company at £2.9bn.

The London Stock Exchange Group unveiled plans to buy another 15.1 per cent of LCH, strengthening its grip on the clearing house at the centre of arguments between regulators of the global derivatives market.

China reported its slowest quarterly growth figure in almost a decade on Friday, increasing the pressure on President Xi Jinping as his administration contends with the fallout from the continuing trade war with the US. 

The release of China’s worst economic growth figures since the global financial crisis failed to rattle currency and equities markets on Friday but analysts were wary about the outlook for the world’s second-largest economy.

At least 20 Hong Kong listed companies fell in trading on Friday morning after a prominent activist investor charted out their links to China Minsheng Bank and Beijing-based bad debt manager Huarong, whose chairman was charged with corruption earlier this week.

Chinese stocks reversed early losses on Friday as regulators sought to play down recent weakness and Asia-Pacific equities more broadly tracked Wall Street lower on concerns over US interest rates and the US-China trade war.

Indonesia's KPK anti-corruption agency has raided 10 locations including the home of James Riady, deputy chairman of Lippo Group, as part of a bribery probe into a $21bn property project in the conglomerate's portfolio.

The renminbi was steady in the immediate wake of Beijing reporting the slowest quarterly growth figure for China in almost a decade on Friday.

China reported its slowest quarterly growth figure in almost a decade on Friday, increasing the pressure on President Xi Jinping as his administration contends with the fallout from the continuing trade war with the US.

Asia-Pacific stocks fell on Friday following on from a global sell-off in the previous session on rumbling concerns over US-China trade and ahead of Chinese gross domestic product data set for release this morning.

Uber is developing a new short-term staffing business, dubbed Uber Works, that would help to diversify its business ahead of next year’s planned initial public offering.

Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate services group, has apologised for suing a former janitor after she joined a rival company following a report in the Financial Times earlier this week.

Insurer American International Group on Thursday said it expects to report third quarter pre-tax catastrophe losses of as much as $1.7bn sending shares lower in after-hours trade.

American Express has nudged up its full-year earnings per share guidance on the back of solid growth in customer spending.

Fox Business Network and senior Goldman Sachs executive Dina Powell have become the latest to distance themselves from the Future Investment Initiative conference in Saudi Arabia amid growing international outcry over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A Conservative MP has admitted he wouldn’t vote for his own party if he wasn’t in parliament and described the running of the current government as a “shit show”.