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* Executive bonuses withheld pending investigation (Adds chairman quotes from the shareholder meeting)

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives moved closer on Wednesday to impeaching President Donald Trump as a key House committee began debating formal articles of impeachment that are expected to be brought to the House floor next week.

* Lynas jumps 9.3% as U.S. army plans to fund rare earths plant

Trading in emerging market credit default swaps (CDS) stood at$486 billion in the third quarter of 2019, a survey of 12 major dealers showed on Wednesday, with China, Turkey and Brazil accounting for biggest share of the volatile market.

Survey says greater political clarity will counter falling sales and cooling prices

British house prices dropped last month by the most since April, as uncertainty about Brexit and the election weighed on the property market, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said on Thursday.

A former executive of Credit Suisse Group AG told top bank executives as well as U.S. and Swiss authorities that she was put under surveillance in July 2017 while in a dispute with the bank, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Underscoring U.S. lawmakers' continuing unhappiness with Russia, a Senate committee on Wednesday advanced legislation seeking to hamper Russian energy pipelines and boosting NATO but delayed voting on a measure nicknamed the "sanctions bill from hell" that would punish Moscow for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

A former executive of Credit Suisse Group AG told top bank executives as well as U.S. and Swiss authorities that she was put under surveillance in July 2017 while in a dispute with the bank, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Shares of XP Inc, Brazil's largest digital broker, closed up more than 25% in their Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, and the company said it will use the $1 billion proceeds from the stock offering to boost its banking unit.