Apple briefly became the first $900bn (€772bn) in the US on the day its stores around the world were inundated with customers trying to get their hands on the new iPhone X.

The EU’s upcoming MiFID II rules brokerages and banks firms must soon start charging for research — and that may include the morning musings of analysts and strategists.

Kraft Heinz has made a $143bn (€134.5bn) offer for Unilever in what would be the largest-ever takeover in the food or beverage industry, opening a campaign to create a consumer-goods giant with household names from Dove soap to Heinz ketchup.

The pending farm-out deal for Providence Resources on its Barryroe field in the Celtic Sea, may materialise as a ‘phased’ agreement, initially covering appraisal work, rather than being a full development cost partnership, according to a UK-based analyst.

First oil flow from the much-anticipated Barryroe field in the Celtic Sea may not occur until the end of this decade, according to analysts.