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Two senior executives at Bank of Cyprus may have deleted crucial e-mail documents last year, according to an investigative report commissioned by the central bank of Cyprus, the NYT reports.
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*Gold still on track for sharp weekly loss despite rally. NEW YORK, April 5- Gold rallied over 1.5 percent on Friday, on track for its biggest one-day gain since November, as disappointing U.S. job data fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue its bullion-friendly bond purchases.
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LONDON/ SEOUL- North Korea has asked embassies to consider moving staff out and warned it cannot guarantee the safety of diplomats after April 10, Britain said, amid high tension and a war of words on the Korean peninsula.
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LONDON, April 5- Britain's biggest gas storage site ran dry of normal supply on Friday and is using gas usually reserved for the technical operation of the site, National Grid data showed.
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*FTSEurofirst down 1.6 percent, Euro STOXX 50 down 1.4 pct. LONDON, April 5- European shares fell on Friday to post their biggest daily fall of 2013 after U.S jobs figures came in much lower than expected. "It's a bad number, much worse than consensus or the whisper numbers that were being circulated," Joshua Raymond, strategist at City Index, said.
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LONDON, April 5- European shares fell on Friday to post their biggest daily fall of the year so far after U.S jobs figures came in much worse than expected.
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LONDON, April 5- Britain's most high-profile entertainment retailer HMV was handed a lifeline on Friday when a turnaround group bought it, ensuring a future for a firm which gave the Beatles one of their first big breaks.
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LONDON/ SEOUL, April 5- North Korea has asked embassies to consider moving staff out and warned it cannot guarantee the safety of diplomats after April 10, Britain said, amid high tension and a war of words on the Korean peninsula.
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NEW YORK-- Shares of Rigel Therapeutics Inc. lost more than a third of their value Friday on mixed results from a late-stage clinical trial of a rheumatoid arthritis drug the company helped develop.
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LONDON, April 5- Gold held just below session highs on Friday as weaker-than-expected U.S. non-farm payrolls data stoked fears the recovery of the world's largest economy is losing momentum.
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*Gold, natgas, corn, wheat and sugar rebound. Copper and other metals slipped too after data from the U.S. Labor Department showed American employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March. John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital, an energy hedge fund in New York, called jobs report "a real disappointment."
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LONDON, April 5- The investment herd is scattering again in a sign of less stressful times, encouraged by resolute central bank protection even if scarce growth and jobs may deter funds from straying too far.
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*Rigel shares slump 33 pct, AstraZeneca little changed. LONDON, April 5- AstraZeneca's experimental rheumatoid arthritis pill fostamatinib met only one of two goals in a late-stage clinical trial, leaving the future of one of the group's few advanced pipeline products uncertain.
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LONDON, April 5- Brent crude oil fell to a five-month low near $105 per barrel on Friday as bleak U.S. jobs data and bulging inventories dimmed the outlook for economic growth and fuel demand.
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*CME sounds out Chile as location for copper warehouses. LONDON/ NEW YORK, April 5- U.S. exchange operator CME Group is sounding out Chile as the location for a network of warehouses as its copper contract takes market share from the London Metal Exchange, sources familiar with the matter said.
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*Wall Street set to open weaker, European shares weaken. LONDON, April 5- European shares extended their losses, Wall Street was poised to open lower and Treasury bonds rose on Friday after a U.S. jobs report revealed a hiring slowdown in March, raising fears that the economic recovery was losing momentum.
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LONDON, April 5- Bailed-out British lender HBOS was so badly run it would have failed even without the 2008 financial crisis and the regulator should consider banning its former bosses from the industry, UK lawmakers said in a damning report.
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LONDON, April 5- Brent crude oil fell to a five-month low near $105 per barrel on Friday as bleak U.S. jobs data and bulging inventories dimmed the outlook for economic growth and fuel demand.
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*North Korea asks embassies to close- Russia says. LONDON/ SEOUL, April 5- North Korea has asked embassies in Pyongyang that might wish to get staff out if there is a war to submit plans to it by April 10, Britain said on Friday, as it upped the pressure as part of a war of words that has set the Korean peninsula on edge.
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*Copper near 8- month lows. LONDON, April 5- Copper fell on Friday to within sight of the eight-month lows it hit on Thursday, after far weaker than expected U.S. jobs data spooked investors about the state of the world's largest economy.
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LONDON-- Queen Elizabeth II has received an honorary British Academy award in recognition of her support of British film and television. He was referring to the moment when a stuntman dressed as the queen parachuted into the Olympic Stadium during a skit involving James Bond, the legendary spy.