LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank , the biggest bank in the foreign exchange market, has launched an online currency trading platform targeting the booming retail sector, the first big investment bank to target individuals.

May 15 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s currency fell to a six-week low against the dollar in early Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro trading. The real fell 1.8 percent to 2.1820 per dollar at 8:23 a.m.

LONDON (MarketWatch) — Deutsche Bank AG (DB) said Monday that it has launched dbFX, an online currency trading system aimed at individual retail investors.

China set a key trading benchmark for the yuan, signaling that Beijing will allow its currency to appreciate more rapidly.

The US dollar was trading between P51.83 to P52.15 early Monday. Volume transactions amounted to $343.18 million. The peso bucked a trend of regional currency strength on Friday when it dipped to a two-week low at 51.71 against the US dollar due to the demand for the US currency from oil importers.

Manama: Gulf Air will receive a 50 million Bahraini dinar ($138 million) injection to help the Bahrain-based carrier restructure its business processes and combat rising fuel prices, an official said on Sunday.

Reuters – A summit of eight
Muslim-majority nations did not specifically discuss the
international dispute over Iran's nuclear programme, Indonesian
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Saturday.

AP – Gunmen killed the son of Iraq's top judge along with two of his bodyguards and dumped their bodies in Baghdad, officials said Saturday. Other attacks outside the capital killed five Iraqis and a U.S. soldier, police said.

AFP – Thousands of Kurdish refugees of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war want UN recognition of their status and to return to the Iranian town from which they were driven.

Reuters – An Iraqi soldier was killed on
Friday in a clash between two army units which prompted
intervention by U.S. forces, the U.S. military said on
Saturday.