London-listed gambling group launches strategic review, pushing its shares up 10%

Central bank president signals a second consecutive upgrade for Eurozone economy

Todd Combs rose from a Florida state university to Berkshire Hathaway before taking the helm of a new $10bn security fund

Move to outvote Hungary this week would indefinitely immobilise Moscow’s sovereign assets

The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information to accelerate its drive to deport 1mn people this year

Conservatives returned funds in July from private German bank given ‘in good faith’

Wave of M&A fuels rally as big pharma groups hunt for blockbusters ahead of patent cliff

Companies linked to financier owe property moguls £130mn for mortgage on Leconfield House

US president says ‘prices are coming down tremendously’ in campaign-style swing through electoral battleground

Chamber of commerce warns that fall of tightly managed Chinese currency risks prompting trade retaliation

Antitrust concerns and ties to Trump administration complicate picture of who may ultimately own media group

Beijing encouraged purchase of Huawei and Cambricon processors before Trump’s move to allow Nvidia exports

National Audit Office studied sample of 5,000 people and said it was impossible to know their whereabouts due to poor internal systems

Priya Dogra set to take over from former boss Alex Mahon with announcement expected as early as this week

Final interviews for top central bank job to kick off this week

October ‘Jolts’ figures unlikely to deter the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates on Wednesday

Rising costs in consumer unit are a ‘big part’ of overall increase in spending

Some targets are long-term overhauls, others have been dogged by delays. But ministers failed to focus on delivery early on

Serviceman was killed away from enemy lines during test of ‘new defensive capability’

Labour backbencher looks poised to make swift comeback if Keir Starmer steps down as UK prime minister

Investors agree to swap controversial ‘GDP warrants’ for new bonds

Ukrainian president pressed by US envoys for a swift response with an aim to agree ceasefire with Russia ‘by Christmas’

Deputy governor stresses ‘upside risks’ to inflation and argues for cautious approach to further interest rate cuts