Bloomberg Jason Katz, a former Barclays Plc currency trader, admitted conspiring to fix prices in the foreign-exchange market, the third individual to be charged and the first to plead guilty in a long-running US criminal investigation into the rigging of currency rates. Katz appeared in Manhattan federal court, where he admitted to participating in a conspiracy with other bankers …

  Bloomberg One of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s out-of-consensus calls for 2017 is already bearing fruit. While big investors are positioned for Turkey to do well, analysts led by Caesar Maasry recommended greater caution in a report — shortly before the lira plunged to a fresh lows against both the US dollar and the euro. The bank’s analysis of actively-managed …

  Schwarzenbruck / DPA When Tanya Markova was just 12 years old, her life changed literally overnight when a rare disease of the spinal cord left her completely paralysed. “I woke up one day, wanted to get dressed and go to school,” says the Bulgarian-born student, who’s now 24. But suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her back and …