Air Canada and a group of financial institutions have clinched a C$2.35bn ($1.8bn) deal to acquire the Aeroplan rewards business from data analytics company Aimia, more than a decade after the loyalty programme was spun off by Canada’s flag carrier.

Toll Brothers led a charge among rival home builders after it said it built more houses at better prices than forecast during its third quarter and tweaked its full-year guidance.

Is the pain finally over for oil bulls? Oil prices are on track for their fourth straight session of gains, suggesting a possible end is in sight to several weeks of steady declines.

Morgan Stanley has removed its rating on Tesla, signalling the bank could serve as an adviser to the electric carmaker following Elon Musk’s remarks that he is considering taking the company private.

The pound is looking perkier ahead of a press conference between EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and the new UK Brexit secretary Dominic Raab.

Investors were lied to as part of a criminal unauthorised futures-trading scam, the UK’s financial watchdog has alleged in court.

The most widely-followed gauge of US small-capitalisation stocks, the Russell 2000, hit a record high on Tuesday morning.

The Trump administration has set out new rules for regulating carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation as part of its strategy to support US coal mining, but officials suggested that the plan had only a limited ability to revive the industry.

Shares in online brokerages dropped in early trading on news that JPMorgan plans to introduce a new digital brokerage service that features commission-free trading of stocks and exchange traded funds.

Philip Noblet, HSBC’s most senior British dealmaker, is leaving the bank to join rival Jefferies in another high-profile departure from within its investment banking division.

JM Smucker shares fell 3.1 per cent in pre-market trading after the company reported quarterly revenue that fell just short of analyst expectations and lowered its full-year sales outlook.

TJX Cos on Tuesday posted its strongest same-store sales growth in more than two years and boosted its full-year outlook, sending shares in the off-price retailer higher in pre-market trade.

US stock futures tip Wall Street for a higher open as investors eye upcoming trade talks between the US and China while the dollar edged lower after President Donald Trump criticised the Federal Reserve.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister, has said that eight years of international bailouts are finally over and the country can now “reshape its future . . . as a normal European country”.

Barclays has poached one of Goldman Sachs’ top electronic trading engineers as the firm continues to overhaul and “digitalise” its markets business.

Beauty group Coty shrank its full-year losses, but narrowly missed analysts’ expectations for quarterly sales as disruption from its 2016 acquisition of brands from Procter & Gamble remained a drag and a trucker strike in Brazil disrupted supplies.

Kohl’s delivered upbeat quarterly results and boosted its full-year earnings outlook on Tuesday but its shares slipped in pre-market trade, reminiscent of a move by Macy’s last week.

The dollar lost ground on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump’s latest broadside against the Federal Reserve. 

UK employers group the CBI said on Tuesday that the country’s manufacturing sector is in “robust” shape, thanks to strength in the global economy and a weak pound, but that crashing out of the EU without a deal “would be immensely damaging” for both sides.

Russian gold producer Polymetal said earnings surged by 46 per cent in the first half of the year due to a boost in production following the opening of a mine in Kazakhstan.

Annual earnings declined at Shoprite, Africa’s biggest grocer, as its shoppers bore the brunt of a slowing economy in South Africa.

Prices on Italian government debt got a boost on Tuesday after Moody’s extended the deadline for its review into a potential downgrade of the country’s credit rating.

Norway’s trillion-dollar national oil fund modestly undershot its benchmark for the first time in two years in the second quarter, with equities dragged down by global tensions over trade and bond investments muted, despite a flicker of volatility stemming from Italy.

The body representing National Health Service hospitals and ambulances has written to NHS England to warn that a hard Brexit or no-deal scenario could adversely affect “the entire supply chain of pharmaceuticals” in the UK and hit “disease control.”