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* MSCI Nigeria index down 15% in 2019, defying frontier rally

* Brazil's solar market around 1% of total generation capacity

Lloyd's of London wants all insurance and reinsurance policies to clearly state whether coverage will be provided for losses caused by a cyber attack, saying this was in the best interest of both brokers and customers.

Italian premium coffee maker illycaffe is open to a strategic partnership to help accelerate the growth of its retail network and could consider selling a minority stake for the first time in its 86-year history, Chairman Andrea Illy told Reuters.

Sri Lankan shares ended firmer on Thursday, touching their highest intraday gain in more than eight months, a day after the government launched a $2.2 billion Japanese-funded project, boosting investor sentiment; while the rupee ended steady. ** The benchmark stock index jumped 1.8% to its highest percentage gain since Nov. 1,...

European startup Dott has secured 30 million euros ($34 million) in a fundraising led by existing investors EQT and South Africa's Naspers to launch an electric bike hiring business and roll out new generations of its electric scooters.

LONDON, July 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's National Trust will sell all of its investments in the fossil fuel industry by 2022, the conservation charity announced on Thursday.

The European banking system still operates with excess capacity after the financial crisis and there is room for more mergers to increase efficiency but not create ever-larger institutions, European Central Bank supervisor Andrea Enria said on Thursday.

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William Hill plans to cut about a third of its betting shops and jobs in Britain after the government slashed the maximum stake permitted on fixed-odds terminals, dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling by their critics.

Britain's competition watchdog said it had asked Barclays Plc to improve the way its treats small businesses after the bank broke rules designed to protect them.