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Agricultural commodities merchant Louis Dreyfus said that its head of innovation and downstream strategy, Kristen Eshak Weldon, is to leave group at the end of this month.

For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows them to track all their suppliers in a way that minimizes risks in operating globally spread supply chains.

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is set to testify on Wednesday before a Senate committee on the safety certification of jetliners like Boeing Co's 737 MAX, still grounded after fatal crashes.

Copper Mark, a traceability system launched by the International Copper Association (ICA), expected more members this year after two units of mining giant Rio Tinto joined in May.

Southwest Airlines said on Wednesday it has enough cash to carry on business for the next two years, up from its prior forecast of 20 months, as travel demand gradually picks up.

A new U.S. rule regarding China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is a needed "clarification" to help develop standards, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday, adding that security concerns remain over the telecoms equipment maker.

* Testing also started in Belgium (Adds timing of trials, expected results)

* Some shipments of Norwegian salmon to China have resumed (Adds reaction, bullet points, updates share, minister quote)

Germany's smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections has been downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch, the CEO of software company SAP said on Wednesday.

The yields on super-long Japanese government bonds (JGB) edged up on Wednesday, a day after the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) governor said excessive falls in super-long debt yields are not desirable.

European shares opened higher on Wednesday, with hopes of a swift rebound from a coronavirus-led economic slump gaining traction even as curbs on movement in Beijing were put in place to contain a potential second wave of COVID-19 cases.

Fujairah Oil Industry Zone on Wednesday published, via industry information service S&P Global Platts, the following weekly inventory data for oil products for the week ended June 15. Volumes are in thousands of barrels. Figures in brackets represent volume change from prior week calculated by Reuters. Week Light Middle Residual Total Distillates Distillates Fuels 2020

* Axed staff will remain paid for much of 2020 (Adds details)

* Infigen shares hit 3-yr high, topping offer price (Adds Iberdrola adviser, Iberdrola, UAC comments)

Japanese stocks ended lower on Wednesday as automakers dragged following weak export data, while escalating tensions between North Korea and South Korea also doused the market sentiment.

Britain's health minister on Wednesday hailed the use of a steroid called dexamethasone for treating coronavirus patients as the best news so far of the outbreak.

It's hard to find an investor who hadn't already assumed some form of second wave of COVID-19 when economies reopen, so why did stock markets panic at the hint of a relapse last week?

Greece's Alpha Bank is in talks with at least five U.S. investment firms including Cerberus and PIMCO in a fresh attempt to offload a portfolio of bad debt worth more than 10 billion euros ($11.3 billion), two sources told Reuters.

* Trade deficit at 833.4 bln yen vs forecast 1.07 trln yen deficit

* Receives $232 mln loan from parent Walmart (Adds details, quote)