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Kuwaiti lawmakers agreed on Wednesday to set up a committee to look into whether Airbus's aircraft orders from the Gulf Arab state involved alleged corruption, the state news agency reported.

BlackRock , the world's biggest asset manager, has appointed two executives to oversee its operations in continental Europe as part of efforts to expand in the region, a memo to staff on Wednesday seen by Reuters showed.

Renault's shares fell on Wednesday after Moody's cut its rating on the French carmaker's debt to "junk" status, citing weaker profitability as the company restructures and grapples with falling demand.

Citi and Deutsche Bank have started talks with other banks to sell roughly $9 billion in debt Dubai raised to take full control of DP World and refinance borrowings of Dubai World, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Metro Bank's interim chief executive officer, Dan Frumkin, will take over the CEO role on a permanent basis, the British lender said on Wednesday.

Qatar Airways Group said on Wednesday it had increased its holding in British Airways-owner IAG to 25.1%, buying another stake worth $600 million as part of a strategy it described as being highly successful.

Deutsche Telekom forecast that growth in its core earnings would slow to 3% this year after a strong fourth quarter, as it looks finally to complete a merger that would create the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier.

Asian shares and U.S. stock futures rose on Wednesday, as investors tried to shake off worries about the coronavirus epidemic after a slight decline in the number of new cases.

The defense business of Airbus on Wednesday laid out plans to cut more than 2,300 jobs, citing a flat space market and postponed defense contracts.

Wall Street's newest cult stock appears to be Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc , as investors drive the space tourism stock to sky-high levels and short sellers dig in their heels.

Oil prices gained more than 2% on Wednesday as worries eased about demand declining due to the spread of coronavirus cases in China, while supplies tightened as the United States moved to cut off more Venezuelan crude from the market.

Virgin Galactic trading has accelerated in a way that tops even the momentum behind Tesla.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose to record closing highs on Wednesday as optimism that China would take more measures to prop up its economy eased concerns about the economic impact of the coronavirus epidemic.

Senior Federal Reserve staff proposed ending longer-term loans to banks after April as part of a broader blueprint laying out how the central bank could scale back the support provided to money markets, the minutes from the January policy meeting showed.

Google is planning to move its British users' accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said.