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Israel Discount Bank said on Monday its net profit in the fourth quarter edged up 0.3% due to a rise in net interest income.

Novacyt, a healthcare company specialising in clinical diagnostics, said on Monday the British government had started on orders for its product that is aimed at carrying out tests on the coronavirus that has killed thousands across the world.

South Africa's rand weakened against the dollar on Monday as the deepening coronavirus crisis roiled financial markets, with focus shifting to the central bank interest rate decision due later in the week.

France is struggling to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, its top health official Jerome Salomon said on Monday, as authorities consider whether to implement a partial lockdown.

Japanese government bond prices dropped on Monday after the Bank of Japan expanded its purchase of riskier assets but refrained from cutting interest rates deeper into negative territory.

Google sister company Verily launched a website late on Sunday that invites adults in northern California to answer questions about their recent health and travel that could result in their getting a free coronavirus test.

Australia's Commonwealth Bank said on Monday it will not contest two lawsuits by the country's corporate regulator that stemmed from a government ordered inquiry into the financial sector for wrongdoing.

The Honduras was in a state of near lockdown on Monday after the government decided to send public and private sector workers home, temporarily call off flights, and suspend public transport to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

South African hotel and casino operator Sun International reported a 91% jump in adjusted full-year earnings on Monday and said it was preparing its operations for any possible disruption due to the global coronavirus outbreak.

A case of H5N8 bird flu has been confirmed in a poultry farm in the eastern German state of Saxony, German authorities said on Monday.

Only a year after losing their homes to floods in parts of Australia's north eastern coast of Queensland, people are moving into new houses built on or near the same plots.

Germany's second-largest steelmaker Salzgitter on Monday said it expects revenues to rise in 2020, pointing to an improvement in its core market Europe, where cheap imports have weighed on prices and margins.

(RTTNews) - Salzgitter Group (SZGPF.PK) reported that its fourth-quarter net loss was 207.5 million euros or 3.83 euros per basic share, compared to net income of 83.7 million euros or 1.55 euros per basic share in the same quarter last year.

Zimbabwe's year-on-year inflation was 540.16% in February, statistical agency Zimstat said, as the southern African nation resumed publishing annual consumer price data it suspended last year.

Plant-based meat company Impossible Foods said on Monday it had raised about $500 million in its latest series F funding round, which was led by new investor South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments.

(RTTNews) - Electrolux (0MDT.L) anticipates a considerable risk of a material financial impact during the first half of 2020 due to coronavirus outbreak. The company said its previously provided outlook is no longer valid.

China stocks fell on Monday as grim data highlighted the extent of the coronavirus' impact on the world's second-largest economy, and another emergency rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve failed to ease fears about the pandemic's fallout.

(RTTNews) - Shaw Communications (SJR) plans to temporarily close its 116 corporate Freedom Mobile and Shaw's 43 retail stores through March 27 due to COVID-19 virus outbreak.

Technology giant Samsung Electronics has adopted electronic voting for the first time ever for this year's annual general meeting (AGM) on March 18, urging shareholders to use it to help curb the spread of coronavirus.

The coronavirus panic is jolting stock markets, with steep drops in major indexes grabbing the public’s attention. But behind the scenes, there is less understood and potentially more worrying evidence that stress is building to dangerous levels in crucial arteries of the financial system.