Reuters Most stock markets in the Middle East made small gains on Monday with Egypt hitting yet another all-time high, while the Saudi Arabian index edged down. The Riyadh index lost 0.1 percent; the banking sector was soft with Banque Saudi Fransi dropping 1.3 percent. Shares of telecommunications operator Atheeb, which had been suspended by the capital markets regulator since …

Bloomberg Banks poised to channel hundreds—if not thousands—of employees out of the UK expect their Brexit bills to reach $500 million or more, according to people with knowledge of firms’ contingency planning. Costs are climbing in part as they find it more difficult than anticipated to persuade reluctant Londoners to move abroad and reckon with a shortage of experienced bankers …

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG head John Cryan may face pressure from investors if his turnaround of Germany’s biggest lender fails to show results in the next six months, one of the bank’s largest investors told the Sunday Times. “If we don’t see improvement in the next two quarters, pressure will mount on the management board,” Ingo Speich, a senior portfolio …