Markets are on alert ahead of the UK's new economic touchstone, a Super Thursday of economic data as interest rate decisions are incorporated with the MPC meeting's minutes.

A debt charity calls for incentives to save to assist an estimated seven million UK households who do not have an emergency pot of £1,000.

Transocean, one of the companies associated with BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well disaster, recovers $735m (£471m) in legal costs and insurance.

The final defendant in the $68bn (£44bn) Bernard Madoff fraud case is jailed, marking the end of a six-year prosecution saga.

Australia PM Tony Abbott says the "baffling mystery" of MH370 is closer to being solved, after Malaysia says debris came from the missing flight.

Wearable technology company Fitbit sees its revenue beat expectations and more than triple to $400m (£256m) in the second quarter.

Smartphones have edged ahead of laptops for the first time as the preferred devices for connecting online in the UK, a report by Ofcom says.

Japanese car parts supplier Takata announces a 3bn yen (£15.4m, $24m) net profit for the quarter from April to June.