Bloomberg A Barclays Plc trader fired amid a global probe into foreign-exchange market manipulation lost his lawsuit against the bank after a judge ruled the lender was right to dismiss him for revealing confidential information to rivals and using sexually explicit, racist language in online chats. Barclays suspended Jack Murray in October 2013, shortly after regulators began probing banks suspected …

Bloomberg The Russian state-controlled behemoth reported net income of 167.8 billion rubles ($2.98 billion), beating estimates of 159 billion rubles by 10 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Earnings were boosted by a stronger net interest margin as the Russian central bank moved slowly to bring down borrowing costs. It was the third record profit in the last five quarters. Sberbank Chief …

Bloomberg Manufacturers of airport security equipment have a message for travelers who fear they will have to give up laptops and tablet computers on international flights: They have a solution. At least four of the largest companies making screening devices say they are developing scanners so much better at detecting explosives than existing X-ray machines that passengers could leave laptops, …