Bloomberg A semblance of calm is returning to the pound. Sterling’s implied one-month volatility versus the dollar declined this week to the lowest since June 24, the day the results of Britain’s vote to leave the EU was announced. The difference with an equivalent gauge for three months was at one percentage point on Friday, having surged in June ...

  Helsinki / AFP A sub-sea gas pipeline planned to link Finland and Estonia moved closer to reality on Friday as the European Commission promised to fund the project to ease the region’s dependence on Russian gas. “The allocated grants will cover, among others, the construction of the Balticconnector, the first bi-directional sub-sea gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland,” the EU ...

  Bloomberg The S&P 500 Index halted a five-day rally that took it to a record, while the dollar rose and Treasuries had the biggest weekly drop in a year as data boosted optimism in the economy. News after the close of U.S. equities markets that Turkey’s army had seized power stoked demand for haven assets. The nation’s lira plunged ...