Indrabati Lahiri

The German government seized a quantity of Bitcoin cryptocurrency from Movie2K, a film piracy website in January.

Mulberry's share price has fallen 39% since January, amid a global decline in the luxury sector, mainly driven by shoppers from Asia cutting back.

Labour's plans to close the “carrying interest” private equity sector loophole has led to several funds and executives considering moves to countries with more beneficial tax regimes, such as Italy and Spain.

The move comes as the London Stock Exchange has been struggling for several months to retain companies looking to leave the UK and list in more welcoming markets such as the US.

Back on 1 July, the Air France-KLM group also issued a similar profit warning about the Paris Olympics, preparing itself for a €180 million blow to revenue.

The criticism from Lavazza boss Giuseppe Lavazza comes on top of already-raised prices due to the affects of drought on coffee harvest and the ongoing Red Sea crisis which has hit coffee deliveries to Europe.

Cannabis could be moved from the stringent Schedule 1 classification of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to the relatively less regulated Schedule 3, in view of its medicinal and pharmaceutical properties and usages.

The US has already imposed restrictions on Chinese companies such as Huawei, which prevents it from receiving semiconductor chips, as well as telecommunications equipment from US manufacturers.

June's fall was primarily due to the prices of energy, such as natural gas and electricity falling, as well as the costs of intermediate goods decreasing too.

Air Antilles is being relaunched under a new partnership between the French engineering company EDEIS group and the Collectivité de Saint-Martin.