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WTO members give ‘provisional’ support to UK membership of 47-country procurement pact

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) said on Wednesday that it would further unwind mortgage lending restrictions at the start of next year as growth in the previously red hot housing market eased off.

U.S. options traders have their eyes firmly fixed on Buenos Aires this week, and they are increasingly confident the meeting there of the heads of the world's 20 largest economies means one thing: more volatility.

Reporting change raises two questions that may leave some hot under the collar

MPs quiz clothes companies on treatment of workers and suppliers after FT investigation

The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday said it had sanctioned Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo, wife of the country's President Daniel Ortega, and close aide Nestor Moncada Lau, accusing them of undermining Nicaragua's democracy.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to timber company Weyerhaeuser Co and other landowners seeking to limit the federal government's power to designate private land as protected habitat for endangered species in a property rights case involving a warty amphibian called the dusky gopher frog.

Low Pay Commission said it had found no evidence of higher pay hitting employment

The impoverished state of Central African Republic landed a windfall on Tuesday, at least on paper, when Russian state bank VTB reported it had lent the country $12 billion -- but the bank then said it was a clerical error and there was no such loan.

UK working ‘very well’ with US on trade, says PM, under fire from DUP for ‘giving up’