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Leaked internal party dossier handed to Metropolitan Police

* Domestic investors cheer Xi support pledge for private firms

European shares joined a global relief rally on Friday after after U.S. President Donald Trump fueled hopes among investors that a deal to end a prolonged dispute over trade could be made with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this month.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday unveiled an indictment against two companies based in China and Taiwan and three individuals, saying they conspired to steal trade secrets from U.S. semiconductor company Micron Technology Inc relating to its research and development of memory storage devices.

China's primary money rates eased on Friday from month-end highs but remained elevated compared with a week earlier, as the central bank refrained from injecting fresh funds into money markets for the sixth straight trading day. The volume-weighted average rate of the benchmark seven-day repo traded in...

* Domestic investors cheer Xi support pledge for private firms

Revenue at interdealer broker TP ICAP inched 1 percent higher in the four months to the end of October but was down by a similar amount in the first 10 months of 2018, reflecting what it said were "mixed" market conditions.

* Quarterly provisions surge nearly 4 times vs year-ago period

Revenue at TP ICAP inched 1 percent higher in the four months to the end of October but was down by a similar amount in the first 10 months of 2018, the world's largest interdealer broker said on Friday.

Punjab National Bank (PNB) reported a third straight quarterly loss on Friday, as India's second-largest state lender by assets set aside more money to account for a massive fraud.