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The warning comes after the share price of Barrick Gold fell to a 20-year low last week, losing its crown as the world’s largest gold miner by market value to GoldCorp

Businesses added 119,000 jobs last month, below a forecast 155,000, as Americans digested government spending cuts and a payroll tax rise

In an attempt to exert pressure on Bangladesh to improve its factory standards, the EU is considering trade restrictions on the country

Forty top executives to give up Y1bn in total after they failed to keep a promise to return the Japanese group’s consumer electronics division to profit

Analysts are expecting 36% revenue growth year on year, with consensus estimates calling for earnings of 13 cents a share on $1.44bn in revenue

Data provides further evidence that the world’s second-largest economy is slowing

The maker of the iPhone, which has no debt, is seeking to take advantage of low interest rates to help fund its $100bn planned capital return

The controversial London flotation of the Kazakhstan-based miner encountered a last-minute hurdle after auditors found evidence that records had been falsified or destroyed

Risk appetite increases ahead of central bank meetings, while investors are also cheered by Italy’s coalition government and easing eurozone tensions

New Prime Minister Enrico Letta tells senate that the creation of the single European currency was insufficient and calls for greater political union

Expectations for an ECB interest rate cut grow after the eurozone unemployment rate edges up to 12.1% and the inflation rate slows sharply to 1.2%

Ethics court of world football’s governing body clears Fifa president Sepp Blatter of wrongdoing but João Havelange resigns as honorary president

Civil Aviation Authority says UK hub airport’s aeronautical charges should rise by inflation minus 1.3% during each of the five years from April 2014

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods group Unilever is paying $5.4bn to extend its control over its Hindustan Unilever Indian subsidiary to 75%

US electrical retailer receives £471m for its 50% share of operation with 2,400 stores across eight countries as five-year relationship ends

Swiss banking group posts net profits of SFr988m, well ahead of analysts’ forecasts, after move to focus on wealth management and cut back on risk

Bank’s first-quarter profit rises to £2bn after a sharp decline in bad loan charges and one-off gains on the sale of UK government bond holdings

High-margin areas such as Angola and North Sea help to offset lower production following impact of $38bn asset disposal programme

Alfredo Sáenz steps down as Santander chief executive, allowing Bank of Spain to escape a decision on whether to ban him over a criminal conviction

Analysts say successful auction boosted by prospect of new government led by centre-left Enrico Letta introducing measures to lift Italy out of recession