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Sri Lanka's rupee closed almost steady on Thursday at a fresh seven-month low, but risks of foreign fund outflows weighed on the currency after the central bank cut key monetary policy rates. ** Foreign investors sold net 12.9 billion rupees worth of government securities in the week ended Aug. 21,...

Weak services and drop in confidence in the retail sector hits Britain as eurozone rebounds

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Micro Focus Intl said it had little scope to mitigate a cut in its revenue guidance before its Oct. 31 year-end as its cost cutting programmes were already well advanced, meaning most of the shortfall would fall through to the core earnings line.

SBI Card & Payments Services Ltd, the credit card subsidiary of State Bank of India (SBI) , plans to raise about 80 billion Indian rupees ($1.12 billion) via an initial public offering this year, a senior SBI executive involved in the process said.

Boris Johnson suffers further blow as chief whip in Lords resigns over move to suspend parliament

Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Point72 Ventures and others invested $40 million in a Mexico-based online lender called Credijusto.com, the companies said on Thursday.

Suspending parliament in this way is a direct attack on representative democracy