Jefferies' chief executive and chairman said on Friday that they and several colleagues had taken drug tests to fight allegations that some of the investment bank's employees are "serial drug abusers" ...

This year's election has been one of the most unpredictable in years in a country in which the electoral process has traditionally been dominated by the centre-left PT and centrist PSDB. Ms Silva ...

If any sector has come to symbolise Nigeria's attractiveness as a frontier market in recent years it is consumer goods.

Brazil's Azul, the airline created by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, has cancelled its initial public offering, the second IPO this month to be thwarted by turmoil in the country's capital markets.

When FTSE 250 engineer Cookson last year demerged into two separate companies, the split was widely seen as an amicable divorce - a way to allow smaller electronics specialist Alent to thrive away ...

The first sale of state-owned shares in Lloyds Banking Group resulted in a £230m loss for taxpayers, even though investors paid more for their stake than the government did in 2009, according to an ...

In 2006, Weatherbys started a private banking operation, building on its racing clients, but also taking advantage of the aftermath of the global financial crisis, in which well-off investors have ...

Julius Baer has purchased the international private banking assets of Israel's Bank Leumi, in the latest expansionary move by the Swiss private bank. Under the terms of the deal, Leumi will transfer ...

Theresa May has won a first legal challenge against paying £224m compensation for a cancelled contract to US defence company Raytheon, after a judge found that the initial ruling had been undermined ...

Actavis, the highly acquisitive Dublin-based drugs maker, has agreed to buy the New York-based Forest Laboratories for $25bn. If completed the acquisition by Actavis would be the biggest ...

French prosecutors announced they will look into allegations of bribery involving Vinci, which is building a 43km stretch of toll road linking Moscow to St Petersburg. Russian activists allege that ...

Η κυβέρνηση Τραμπ άφησε να λήξει το διάστημα που επιτρέπονταν η αγορά ρωσικού πετρελαίου που είχε ήδη φορτωθεί σε ...