LONDON (Reuters) -Nestle improved its full-year organic sales outlook and reported better-than-expected first-half organic sales, as the world's biggest packaged food company again raised prices to cope with higher input costs.

Europe's Airbus on Wednesday posted higher-than-expected underlying operating profit for the second quarter and reaffirmed its financial goals for the year, while narrowing its focus for future production to a single target.

LONDON (Reuters) -Nestle improved its full-year organic sales outlook and reported better-than-expected first-half organic sales, as the world's biggest packaged food company again raised prices to cope with higher input costs.

TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan should start preparing for future monetary tightening by moving away from its yield control policy, the International Monetary Fund's chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said on Tuesday.

PARIS (Reuters) -Europe's Airbus on Wednesday posted higher-than-expected underlying operating profit for the second quarter and reaffirmed financial goals for the year, while removing an interim industrial target on the route to record jet output.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma may proceed with a bankruptcy settlement that protects its Sackler family owners from lawsuits, despite a potential U.S. Supreme Court appeal in the case, a U.S. court ruled on Tuesday.