The Japanese investment bank Nomura has pushed back the estimated timing for a rate hike by the European Central Bank from March 2019 to September 2019.
The Federal Statistical Office of Germany reported that inflation in five German regions, including North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, exceeded the ECB target rate of 2% in May.
The Chinese authorities on Wednesday scolded the renewed US trade threats, which come just before the US Commerce Secretary visits China.
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday announced that trade frictions are creating a significant risk for the Chinese economy.
Bayer has won the US approval for the planned Monsanto takeover, after it had agreed to sell around $9B in assets, clearing major impediments for the $62.5B deal.
On Tuesday, WellCare Health stated it was set to acquire Meridian Health Plans of Illinois and Michigan in a deal valued at $2.5B in cash, seeking to become the key Medicaid provider.
China's Hong Kong Airlines is planning an initial public offering in the near future, tapping investors to attract about $350M by selling its new shares and convertible bonds, an official document showed.
The German carmaker Daimler has invested $175M into the Estonian taxi service and Uber's rival Taxify, which operates across the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa, two companies stated on Wednesday.
The US-listed Cigna Corp is set to acquire a New Zealand life insurance unit from ANZ Bank New Zealand in a deal valued at $482.4M.
On Wednesday, the global miner BHP Billiton stated its joint venture with Mitsubishi unit was set to sell an Australian coal mine to the Japanese firm Sojitz for $74.89M.
The US-based electric auto manufacturer Green4U Technologies is to invest $20M in an assembly plant in Honduras within the following five years.
Oil prices fell early on Wednesday amid worries that Russia and Saudi Arabia could increase the global oil supply during the second half of 2018.
China said in a statement early on Wednesday that the US threatening to impose $50B import tariffs on China was regarded as a move against their recent trade consensus.
Asian stocks extended their sell-off early on Wednesday in response to the current political crisis in Italy which sent the Euro to a new ten-month low.
The US government planned to diminish the length of visas provided for some of Chinese citizens within a strategy to prevent theft of intellectual property by the US rivals.
KKR & Co stated that it is set to acquire the US business software firm BMC Software within a deal valued nearly $8.5B, the buyout company's biggest acquisition since the financial crisis.
Starbucks was closing 8K company-owned stores in the US, in a first attempt in training 175K employees over racial tolerance to ensure minorities receive equal treatment.
HP reported better-than-anticipated quarterly revenue and raised the full-year profit estimate, supported by solid demand for desktops and notebooks.
France signed an agreement with Ukraine to deliver it 55 Airbus helicopters worth €555M, the French Economy and Finance Ministry says.
US court ruling on Iran's part in the 9/11 attacks is biased, politically-motivated and baseless, the Iranian Foreign Ministry says.
China and the United Kingdom should strengthen cooperation in technological and scientific innovation, the Chinese President Xi Jinping says.
The Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and the Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni Mamani on Tuesday in Beijing.
The global food producer Nestle plans to cut as many as 500 IT-related jobs in Switzerland as part of a plan to boost profitability.
The US trade statement is different from the consensuses the two countries have previously reached in Washington, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce says.