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Four bidders have expressed interest in buying British Steel's French business, France's finance minister said on Wednesday after Chinese steelmaker Jingye Group said it would buy its British and Dutch assets.

* Roche gains as China to use its drug to treat coronavirus (Updates to close)

The Bank of Canada, taking its cue from other central banks, slashed a key interest rate by the most in more than a decade on Wednesday to help tackle a coronavirus outbreak and said it would cut again if necessary.

Government rejects £100m state loan to airline now struggling over coronavirus

* Indexes up: Dow 1.96%, S&P 1.57%, Nasdaq 1.38% (Adds comment, details, updates prices)

* Coronavirus response top priority, next BoE head Bailey says

Investors pulled slightly more than $13.6 billion out of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that hold U.S. equities last week, marking the sharpest pullback from the domestic stock market since September, according to data released on Wednesday by the Investment Company Institute. The declines came...

Andrew Bailey, the next governor of the Bank of England, said on Wednesday that he wanted to see more evidence about the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak before deciding whether to cut interest rates.

* Shares in Bankinter, Sabadell and Caixabank fall (Adds analyst comment, detail on revolving credit)

General Electric Co predicted on Wednesday that the coronavirus would wipe out a substantial chunk of industrial free cash flow in the first quarter, but stuck to full-year financial targets the company set in January.