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 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.

Signs of further stimulus from the European Central Bank and hopes for progress in the trade dispute between the US and China supported stock markets on Wednesday, with attention turning towards the Federal Reserve.

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, suffered from a sharp deterioration in business travel due to Brexit and fears of a downturn leading to a decline in like-for-like accommodation sales that was worse than the rest of the market.

Saga, the specialist in products for the over-50s, said that it was making good progress with its new fixed price motor insurance, but warned that conditions in its travel markets were challenging.

A rocket hit an area of Basra, Iraq’s oil and gas hub, that houses several global oil companies on Wednesday morning, coming amid rising tensions between the US and Iran.

Nomura shares jumped on Wednesday after the Japanese investment bank and brokerage announced plans for a share buyback ahead of a potentially fractious shareholder meeting next week. 

The slump in Japanese exports accelerated during May on the back of an escalation in global trade tensions and the effects of a lengthy holiday to mark the ascension of a new emperor. 

Adobe on Tuesday reported upbeat quarterly results driven by strength in its digital media unit, which includes its creative cloud and photo shop products, but delivered a soft outlook for the current quarter.

The whiff of fresh stimulus from the European Central Bank and renewed hopes for an end to the trade war propped up stocks and left the S&P 500 within 1 per cent of its closing high.

JPMorgan Chase’s asset management chief Chris Willcox is retiring and will be replaced by senior executive George Gatch.

Stocks and government bonds rallied on Tuesday after President Donald Trump fuelled hopes for a trade deal with China and Mario Draghi offered markets the clearest indication yet that the European Central Bank is ready to launch another round of stimulus if needed.

Tech start-up Babylon has announced that GP at Hand, its video consultation and AI chatbot app, will go live in Birmingham on Wednesday, marking the start of a national rollout of the London-based digital health service.

The UK and Italy will jointly bid to host the UN climate talks next year, signalling the UK is likely to play a leading role in climate diplomacy as president of the 2020 dialogue.

Oil prices jumped on Tuesday, with investor sentiment boosted by dovish comments from the European Central Bank president and potential sign of progress in US-China trade relations.