Nestle SA(NESN.VX), battling a reputation crisis in India, pulled its Maggi instant noodles from stores across the country on Friday after regulators reported some packets contained excess lead.
China is currently amending rules on margin trading and short selling and will publish them when "time is ripe," the securities regulator said on Friday.
Lloyds Banking Group boss Antonio Horta-Osorio will forfeit 350,000 pounds ($536,000) in bonuses after the bank was fined 117 million pounds for failings in the way it handled complaints about mis-sold loan insurance.
Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
