Spain's government has expelled Venezuelan ambassador in Spain on Friday, declaring the official "persona non grata", following Venezuela's equivalent move on Thursday.
On Friday, Colgate-Palmolive posted a 4.5% rise to $3.9B in its Q4 sales, missing analysts' expectations for a $3.92B reading, while the company's shares plunged 3% to $74.90.
The ECB governing council's official Francois Villeroy de Galhau stated on Friday that the European Central Bank must monitor the impact, which the exchange rates had on the inflation prospects.
Shares of the compressor and underground mining equipment maker Atlas Copco fell 3% on Friday, following a report on its Q4 operating profit that missed forecasts for a demand to stay on hold.
Delaware judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Silicon Valley's venture company Benchmark Capital against Uber's former CEO Travis Kalanick on Thursday, after both parties reached the agreement.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump told the Russian TASS news outlet at the W.E.F. in Davos that he had hoped for a dialogue with Moscow.
According to Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the President Vladimir Putin has no plans on attending Syrian peace congress in Russia's city of Sochi.
The US President Donald Trump denied Friday's report that stated he had ordered the Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired in June 2017, calling the allegation "fake news".
China is eager to name a Harvard-trained economist and President Xi Jinping's advisor Liu He as the Vice Premier overseeing the financial and economy sector.
The UN Human Rights experts urged the Philippines to let the independent news website Rappler operate, following raising concerns at surging rhetoric against critical voices over Rodrigo Duterte.
On Friday, the Conservative Party and the Social Democrats launched the German coalition talks, four months after the election that left country's economy in a state of political limbo.
Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer stated that it was politically impossible for Switzerland as a neutral country to sign a new EU treaty in the nearest future that would bind it closer to the bloc.
The Republican Senator Tom Cotton on Thursday praised the President Donald Trump immigration plan, saying he looked forward to join the Congress to turn that plan into a legislation.
Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Societe Generale are interested in acquiring the Equities, Markets and Commodities unit of Germany's Commerzbank, as the EMC division includes its ETF portfolio.
The Chinese urban-registered jobless rate dropped to a 15-year low of 3.9% in 2017, the country's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reported on Friday.
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co Ltd reported on Friday an impairment loss of $608M (C$750M) on its Canadian shale gas project during the fourth quarter of 2017.
The US ride-hailing company Lyft said that it was probing into allegations of its employees misusing customer data.
On Friday, Fujitsu said it was in advanced talks to sell its mobile phone unit to the Japanese investment fund Polaris Capital Group.
The Foreign Minister of South Korea said that the North Korean crisis must be resolved solely diplomatically and no military option would be acceptable.
According to sources with knowledge on the matter, Dell is now considering a variety of options to boost the company's growth through possible acquisitions or IPO.
Walmart has struck a cooperation with e-commerce business Rakuten to launch an online service of grocery delivery in Japan, in a bid to crack the market.
China's industrial profits posted a weak expansion pace in December, while the yearly growth rate marked the strongest increase in six years.
On Friday, the Bank of Japan reported that its SPPI climbed 0.8% in December, in line with analysts' forecasts.
Japan's Statistics Bureau reported on Friday that its National Core CPI rose 0.9% in January, following the preceding month's gain of 0.9%.