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Nissan on Wednesday said its net profit for the three months to June soared 36.3 percent to $1.3 billion on strong sales in North America and Europe.

Japan's number-two automaker said its quarterly net profit reached 152.8 billion yen ($1.3 billion), while operating profit jumped 58.0 percent to 193.7 billion yen.

Japanese video game giant Nintendo said Wednesday it swung to a $67 million net profit in the three months to June, owing to a jump in console sales and a weaker yen.

The company, whose chief executive Satoru Iwata died of cancer at the age of 55 this month, said its 8.28 billion yen net profit reversed a loss of 9.92 billion yen a year earlier.

Top American manufacturer Procter & Gamble promoted its beauty branch leader, David Taylor, to head the company as CEO, the company announced.

Taylor will replace current CEO A.G. Lafley, 68, according to media reports Tuesday.

Fasten your seat belts, investors, China's volatile stocks still have room to drop.

But analysts say keeping the rollercoaster on the tracks without an outright crash will depend on how the government manages its eventual exit from the market.

The Greek government and its international creditors began work on a mammoth new bailout Monday overshadowed by revelations that Greece's ex-finance minister Yanis Varoufakis had been secretly planning for a parallel system of liquidity.

As the European Commission confirmed that technical talks on Greece's third bailout had started in Athens, the embattled leftist government was put on the defensive by Varoufakis's claim to have "hacked" into his own ministry weeks earlier to create duplicate files for millions of Greek taxpayers.

A rise in German business confidence and signs of a pickup in lending in Europe gave a boost to the euro Monday.

The single currency jumped more than one percent against the dollar, hitting $1.1132, the highest level in two weeks, before easing to $1.1091 in late trade.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is to speak out against "corrupt money from around the world" being laundered through property in Britain in a speech to be made during a trip to Southeast Asia on Tuesday.

The Conservative Party leader is to announce a consultation on increasing transparency on property ownership, amid concerns from campaigners that rising property prices in Britain are fuelled by corrupt cash.

The dollar recovered slightly against the yen Tuesday, although gains were limited as investors remain on edge after a sharp plunge in Chinese markets hit risk sentiment, but the euro was supported by upbeat German data.

In Tokyo, the greenback fetched 123.55 yen, up from 123.24 yen in New York late Monday. although it is still off the 123.75 yen earlier in Asia.

Switzerland's largest bank UBS on Monday posted a 53 percent rise in second quarter profits, in its first results since agreeing to plead guilty to fraud as part of the Libor manipulation case. 

The bank brought in profits of 1.2 billion Swiss francs ($1.25 billion, 1.1 billion euros), with strong performances from its wealth management, corporate and investments units.