Wall St gained overnight recovering from earlier losses, after minutes from the June Federal Reserve meeting cemented bets US interest rates won't rise any time soon.

The Bank of England warned that "the current outlook for UK financial stability is challenging" following the Brexit vote.

European equities moved lower overnight, while commodities including gold and silver rallied.

A failure of polls and bookmakers may push the financial sector to start looking more closely at social media.

World shares rose again overnight, while the British pound weakened, as Bank of England Governor Mark Carney signalled the central bank will likely ease monetary policy.

Central banks are expected to take action to ease the impact of the Brexit decision.

World shares sank further overnight, along with the British pound.

World financial markets have rallied sharply on the prospects of Britain remaining in the EU.

Geese don't come much more golden than the world's financial centre - the City of London.

Blackstone Group has snapped up a stake in Kiwi life insurance company Partners Life.

Wall Street traded higher, though both the Dow and the Nasdaq gave up some of their earlier gains.

Wall St has figured out a way to squeeze some extra income from these stocks. And German taxpayers pay for it.

Wall Street was mixed after a report showed more jobless benefits were filed than expected.

Investors edged back to safer bets from more speculative ones overnight.

Billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn said he has sold his Apple stake.

Seth Glickenhaus, a bond trader turned money manager whose studies of law and medicine failed to lure him away from Wall Street, his professional home for more than eight decades, has died.

Wall Street gained overnight, bolstered by better-than-expected results from JPMorgan Chase, while trade data from China fuelled commodities.