AFP - Blue chips closed higher as Wall Street remained firmer, with Rexam, Admiral and Aviva all continuing to gain after positive earnings news.

AFP - The pound briefly rebounded following the weak euro zone survey, before coming back under pressure on concerns about the outlook for the economy.

Reuters - Stocks rebounded on Tuesday, rising more than 2 percent on another sharp slide in oil prices and after Merrill Lynch's latest write-down and share sale hinted at a possible turning point in the credit crisis.

AFP - Europe's main stock markets fell on Tuesday, hit by losses to banking shares after overnight declines on Wall Street.

AFP - Blue chips closed firmer on Tuesday, amid gains on Wall Street as the price of crude fell, and as UK banks clawed back some of their earlier losses.

Reuters - Stocks rose more than 1 percent on Tuesday as a drop of over $3 in the price of oil and data showing a rise in consumer confidence reduced worry about inflation and consumer spending.

AFP - Britain's economy came closer to a recession on Friday after official data showed it had slowed further during the second quarter as the construction and manufacturing industries weakened.

AFP - Britain's economy grew 0.2 percent in the second quarter compared with the first three months of 2008 -- the slowest pace for more than three years, official data showed on Friday.

AFP - A brief surge for Europe's main stock markets came to a halt on Thursday, with share prices falling again as heavyweight energy stocks tumbled in London amid cooler oil prices.

AFP - Europe's main stock markets rallied on Wednesday, led by the banking and auto sectors, after an overnight rally on Wall Street helped by falling oil prices that also lifted Asian share prices.

AFP - The European Commission condemned Bulgaria on Wednesday for its failure to tackle corruption and bad management of EU funds and said it has frozen hundreds of millions of euros in aid money.

Reuters - The United States offered on Tuesday to cut its ceiling on trade-distorting farm subsidies to $15 billion in a bid to close world trade talks this year, but leading developing countries said it was not enough.

AFP - European equities slid on Tuesday, with the telecommunications sector under selling pressure after mobile phone giant Vodafone warned over its sales outlook and Ericsson posted slumping profits.