Wholesale outlet Costco is the latest retailer to be linked to an outbreak of E .coli, says the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

George Osborne is to set out government spending plans up to 2020 later, which will include billions of pound in cuts but also new money for house building.

China's biggest brokerage, Citic Securities, had overstated its derivative business by $166bn (£110bn) from April to September.

Thomas Cook has hailed 2015 as "a year of real progress" despite what it described as "turbulence in some of our destinations".

The FTSE 100 rises, with shares in housebuilders boosted by news that the government will pledge more money to help build more homes.

If George Osborne has a big idea, it is to transfer the costs of and responsibility for building a better, fairer Britain from the public sector to the private sector.

A launch of retail billionaire Sir Philip Green's new clothing company with singer Beyonce is planned for spring next year.

The sale of one of Malaysia's most coveted power assets to a Chinese firm is raising more questions about troubled state fund 1MDB.