Japan's Nissan on Monday raised its full-year forecasts, citing new model rollouts along with upbeat sales in North America and Europe that offset weakness in the home market.

Visa Inc said on Monday it would acquire former subsidiary Visa Europe for 16.5 billion euros ($18.19 billion), with the potential for an additional payment of up to 4.7 billion euros.

HSBC saw pre-tax profit surge 32 percent year-on-year in the third quarter on the back of lower fines, the banking giant announced Monday, but revenue dropped in the wake of Asian market volatility.

Activity in China's colossal factory sector shrank in October as global demand stuttered, reinforcing the case for more stimulus and questioning whether the Federal Reserve can be confident enough to raise US interest rates this year.

China on Monday raised the daily reference rate for its yuan currency by the largest margin in a decade, officials and reports said, just three months after a surprise devaluation sent shockwaves through global markets.

Hotels, harbours or mines, Myanmar's big-ticket industries are still in the grip of military-linked tycoons, who will remain gatekeepers to the country's opening market whoever wins Sunday's crunch polls.

Rating agency Moody's Investors Service revised its outlook on India's banking system to "stable" from "negative" on Monday, saying an

China's first big passenger plane rolled off the assembly line on Monday as the Asian giant seeks the prestige of having its own aviation sector, and to challenge foreign giants Airbus and Boeing for market share.

China's manufacturing activity shrank again in October but the rate of decline slowed in the world's second largest economy, an independent survey showed Monday.

A year after it took up its duties as Europe's banking watchdog, observers say the Single Supervisory Mechanism is doing a good job, but challenges nevertheless remain.

China raised the central rate for its yuan currency by the largest amount in a decade on Monday, officials and reports said.

Activity in China's manufacturing sector unexpectedly contracted in October for a third straight month, an official survey showed on Sunday, fuelling fears the economy may still be losing momentum in the fourth quarter despite a raft of stimulus measures.

Nigeria looks set to unbundle a long-awaited oil law to speed up its passage through parliament, potentially unlocking billions of dollars in frozen investments.

China is considering relaxing limits to allow individuals to invest overseas in stocks and property, the central bank said, which would potentially unleash a flood of money if the government loosens strict capital controls.

Four major Greek banks must find up to 14.4 billion euros to survive potential economic shocks, the European Central Bank said

SINGAPORE remains the easiest place to do business, while developing countries stepped up their pace of business-friendly reforms in the past year, according to a World Bank report published Tuesday.

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on Wednesday posted rising third-quarter earnings and revenues, buoyed by sales of HIV drugs and its asset swap deal with Swiss peer Novartis.

Volkswagen has been pushed into loss by the mounting cost of its emissions scandal.

Honda Motor Co is confident it can achieve its 2015 sales target of 950,000 cars in China, but is cautious about increasing production in the world's No.2 economy given the uncertain economic outlook, Chief Executive Officer Takahiro Hachigo told Reuters.

Toshiba said Wednesday that it would sell its image sensor business to Sony, as part of a wider overhaul in the wake of a huge accounting scandal.