Weekly review
London's FTSE 100 ended the week down by 270.83 points to 7,155.38.
Equity view
Office share start-up WeWork has withdrawn its S-1 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission as the group looks to postpone its hotly-anticipated initial public offering.
Prudential has been fined £23.9m by the Financial Conduct Authority for failures relating to non-advised annuities sales.
Residential landlord Grainger has agreed to forward fund a 284-home private rented sector development at Well Meadow in Sheffield for around £42m.
Iron ore miner Ferrexpo has denied allegations made on social media last week that its chief executive officer Kostyantin Zhevago is being investigated in relation to a business he owned in Ukraine until 2015.
Credit Suisse’s chief operating officer has resigned after it emerged he was behind the spying scandal that has rocked the Swiss banking sector.
The accounting watchdog has launched an investigation into EY’s auditing of collapsed tour operator Thomas Cook.
Diageo has launched and priced a $1.6bn (£1.3bn) SEC-registered bond offering, it announced on Tuesday morning.
High Street baker Greggs said third quarter total sales rose 12.4%, driven by higher customer numbers.
The Competition and Markets Authority has referred JD Sports Fashion’s acquisition of Footasylum to an in-depth investigation after the retailer failed to offer up any remedies.
Private equity giant Blackstone has acquired a controlling stake in Great Wolf Resorts, the largest US operator of indoor water parks, in a $2.9bn deal.
Flutter Entertainment has agreed an all-share merger with Nasdaq and Toronto-listed Stars Group, a provider of technology-based product offerings in the global gaming industries and the owner of Poker Stars.
Defence technology company QinetiQ has agreed to buy Manufacturing Techniques Inc. (MTEQ) in a deal that will more than double the size of its US operations.
Ted Baker shares slumped on Thursday as the fashion retailer said it swung to an interim loss, slashed its dividend and warned over its full-year results amid "very challenging" trading conditions.
Stagecoach said it would take the government to court next year over the decision to ban the firm from bidding for three rail contracts as it maintained full year guidance despite a slowdown in regional bus revenue.
Centamin said chief executive Andrew Pardey would retire as it forecast gold production to be at the lower end of full year expectations.
Payments platform provider Finablr announced the launch of a money transfer feature in Samsung Pay on Thursday, alongside Samsung Electronics America.
Aerospace supplier Meggitt on Friday won a $48m US army contract to supply aerial weapons scoring systems (AWSS).
Economic news
The UK economy contracted in the second quarter, official data confirmed on Monday, weighed down by the manufacturing sector.
Nissan is reportedly planning to cut production of its Qashqai model at its Sunderland plant if the UK crashes out of the European Union.
The UK manufacturing sector rallied slightly in September as Brexit preparations once again got underway, although the underlying outlook remained resolutely downbeat.
Boris Johnson has used his speech to the Conservative Party conference to insist the UK will quit the European Union at the end of October, with or without a deal.
The government's proposals to Brussels for a Free Trade Agreement and the creation of a single regulatory area on the island of Ireland as an alternative to the Irish Backstop were unlikely to 'cut the mustard', analysts said.
The UK services sector unexpectedly contracted in September, according to data released on Thursday, with the economy edging closer to recession.
Britain's new car market declined in the first nine months of 2019 as Brexit fears held buyers back, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Friday that it could ban or restrict insurers from raising prices for consumers who renew yearly in an effort to tackle high premiums.
International events
China’s official manufacturing PMI was in contraction territory again in September, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday.
The eurozone unemployment rate unexpectedly ticked a little lower in August, according to data released by Eurostat.
Economic activity in the Chicago area deteriorated more than expected in September, according to figures released on Monday.
The Institute for Supply Management’s headline manufacturing index fell to its lowest level since June 2009 in September.
The World Trade Organization has lowered its growth forecasts for global trade, blaming the slowing economy and ongoing tensions between the US and China.
Eurozone manufacturing activity fell to its worst level in seven years in September, according to data released on Tuesday.
The WTO ruled on the value of trade countermeasures that the United States can impose on European goods to counterbalance the unfair subsidies granted to Airbus and authorised nearly $7.5bn worth of annual punitive measures against the EU.
Iranian oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said his Saudi counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman is a “friend” brushing off the heightened tensions between Iran and Saudi in the wake of the cruise missile and drone attacks against Saudi Aramco facilities in September.
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile from a submarine or underwater launch platform just a day after confirming it would resume nuclear talks with the United States, according to South Korean military officials.
A group of leading German think tanks, which help formulate official government forecasts, have cut their growth expectations for Europe’s largest economy.
US President Donald Trump lashed out at congressional Democrats for wasting Americans' time with "BULL****" over the new impeachment inquiry filed against him.
Services sector activity in the States cooled more sharply than anticipated last month, amid a rapid decline in new orders and a slower pace of hiring, the results of a key survey showed.
Activity in the euro area's services sector cooled more quickly than expected last month, to its slowest pace year-to-date, amid weakening export trade and with companies running down their order backlogs, to the point that economic growth overall may have ground to a halt and with Germany entering a recession, the results of closely-followed surveys found.
US non-farm payrolls rose more or less as expected last month while the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in half a century.