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North Korea's nuclear test, sliding German exports and a lack of fresh stimulus signals from the ECB sour the mood for stocks in Asia and Europe. David Pollard reports.
The first of the big pharmas reveal Q2 earnings, with Novartis warning its profits may decline as it spends more on marketing. As Hayley Platt reports, pharma has benefitted as a defensive sector post-Brexit but still faces big challenges.
European stock markets are knocked off balance after an attack in the French city of Nice kills more than 80 people. As David Pollard reports, shares of travel and leisure companies are the hardest hit.
A mixed start to the week for European shares, major mining stocks declining and French supermarket operator Casino also weighing on the region's stock markets. But, as Grace Pascoe reports, Germany's DAX jumped back over the psychologically-important 10,000 point marker.
Shares jump for joy at a shock policy easing from the Bank of Japan, and oil holds on to hopes of a coordinated Russian-OPEC production cut - even as analysts turn sceptic over whether such cuts will ever happen. Sara Hemrajani reports.