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U.S. businessman Mikayel Israyelyan has bought a majority stake in New York-based Russian-language television network RTVI from its Russian owner and plans to expand it in the United States, the channel said on Tuesday.

South Korea's top financial regulator said on Tuesday that a property market bubble in the country could potentially burst, issuing a stark warning unlike other policymakers, who have avoided describing the frothy market as a full-blown bubble.

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A regional court in the German city of Wiesbaden said on Tuesday it had opened proceedings against six people accused in connection with dividend stripping.

Shares in Boeing Co's biggest European suppliers, Senior Plc and Safran, fell sharply on Tuesday after the U.S. planemaker said it would suspend production of its best-selling 737 MAX jetliner in January, deepening its crisis.

Hong Kong stocks hit a five-week closing high on Tuesday, buoyed by optimism over the Sino-U.S. interim trade deal and Wall Street's rally to record highs. ** Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index closed up 1.2% at 27,843.71 points. The China Enterprises Index gained 1.7% to 10,964.99 points. ** The preliminary...

Pound drops as tougher withdrawal bill opens prospect of new ‘cliff edge’ at end of 2020

Euro zone nations have little regard for their financial obligations and regularly call on an over-politicised European Central Bank to come up with a fix, outgoing ECB board member Benoit Coeure told a French newspaper.

Shares in Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland tumbled in early trading on Tuesday after failing to impress in the 2019 stress testing of Britain's biggest banks.

European shares paused after a record run on Tuesday as a sales warning from Unilever and concerns that Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson could take a hard stance on the transition period for Brexit dented UK stocks.

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