Doorstep lending firm Shopacheck is fined £150,000 for losing tapes containing the personal details of 510,000 customers.

Former chief executive of France Telecom Didier Lombard is placed under formal investigation over a spate of suicides among staff at the company.

Volkswagen agrees a deal to buy the remaining 50.1% shares of Porsche it doesn't already own by the start of next month.

Japan's competition watchdog approves the planned merger of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange.

House prices rose by 1% in June compared with the previous month but remained lower than a year earlier, the Halifax says.

UK engineering group GKN agrees to buy the aero engine business of Swedish truck-maker Volvo for £633m ($986m).

Roger Bootle and his team at Capital Economics win the £250,000 Wolfson Economics prize for the best plan for dealing with a eurozone break-up.

The Bank of England announces it will pump a further £50bn into the UK economy through its quantitative easing programme.