Profits for Chinese industrial firms increased at a sharply weaker pace of 14.9% in November, mainly due to eased demand and slowed producer price gains in the same month.
South Korean firm Hunday Heavy Industries is set to list the company's refining arm Olibank in an initial public offering in 2018 and raise nearly $1.2b via the issue of shares.
Uber Technologies has agreed to sell its US subprime auto-leasing business to startup car marketplace Fair.com.
A rights group reported on Tuesday that Venezuelan authorities had released 44 activists from prison over Christmas, while majority of them remained in prison.
The United States on Tuesday sanctioned two top North Korean officials involved in the country's ballistic missile programs.
Tesla reported on Tuesday that the company would begin production of its first electric pick-up truck after building the Model Y, which was expected to go into production in late 2019.
Despite the fact that the Central Bank of Mexico sold an additional $500M in foreign exchange hedges on Tuesday, the peso still remained under pressure.
After a dismal and volatile week leading up to Christmas weekend, bitcoin have rebounded strongly gaining 13% on Tuesday.
British officials reported on Tuesday that the Royal Navy had escorted a Russian warship through the North Sea near UK waters.
The Kremlin reported on Tuesday that Russia was ready to act as a mediator between North Korea and the United States if both parties would showed a wish for it to play such a role.
One of Libya's main oil export terminals has been shut down following a blast that reduced the country's output by around 90K barrels a day.
Oil traded above $65 a barrel on Tuesday, supported by the blast on a crude pipeline in Libya.
Wall Street's indexes dropped on Tuesday following a 2.8% drop in Apple's shares on a report that the demand for the iPhone X could be lower than expectations during the first quarter.
Liberians were choosing a new president on Tuesday in a run-off vote between the Vice-President Joseph Boakai and the former international footballer George Weah.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the timing of the nearest meeting between the President Vladimir Putin and the US leader Donald Trump had not yet been discussed.
Google seeks to boost its Pixel smartphone sales by launching physical stores in India, the Economic Times reported on Tuesday, following a rising demand in over dozen pop-up stores across the country.
Turkey is planning to restore the Ottoman port city located on the Sudanese Red Sea coast and build a naval dock that would maintain military and civilian vessels.
Shares in some of the Apple suppliers in Asia dropped on Tuesday, following analysts' forecasts over iPhone X demand to come in below estimates in the Q1.
Eastern Libya is planning to stage a conference on March over rebuilding the country's second-largest city of Benghazi that had been damaged during the three years of fight.
The ride-hailing company Uber Technologies is ready to sell its US car-leasing business unit Xchange Leasing to an auto marketplace Fair.com, according to The Wall Street Journal.
According to South Korean estimates, their northern neighbour is likely to start direct negotiations with the United States next year. In the meantime, it is expected to continue trying to achieve recognition as a de facto nuclear power.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is ready to step in as a mediator between the United States and North Korea, if both parties do not object such role.
According to the China state news outlet Xinhua, China has shut down over 13K websites in the past three years for law breaking in the country's effort to clean up the cyberspace.
China halted its oil product exports to North Korea in November, following the UN sanctions imposed to reduce petroleum shipments to the Korean Peninsula.