According to the Euro am Sonntag, German Bundesbank excluded the possibility of introduction of specific digital currency for the Euro Zone and warned that investments in this type of asset is very risky.
On Saturday, the Italian Parliament adopted the draft budget for 2018, which aims to decrease deficit to 1.6% from a targeted 2.1% this year. In addition to that, it includes a new "web tax", requiring companies to pay 3% from some Internet transactions.
According to a local police spokesman, three Turkish tourists were arrested in Jerusalem on Saturday over an incident at one of the Muslims' holy sites.
On Saturday, a number of Russian senior officials said that the US decision to supply defensive arms to Ukraine is intended to provoke Kiev to resume military action in Donbass.
The Parliament of Macedonia has adopted a new draft budget, reducing the deficit to 2.7% from 2.9% this year. Neverthless, the VMRO-DPMNE party boycotted the vote, protesting against arrests of various politicians for an alleged violence in parliament in April.
Germany should cap the number of incoming immigrants to 65,000 a year, a position that could prove divisive in the coalition talks, Chancellor Merkel's conservative Deputy Leader said.
According to China's Central Bank Deputy Governor, the country will gradually reduce economic debt to prevent the buildup of the financial risks.
The US Magistrate judge has granted sanctions against Apple Inc and ordered to pay $25,000 for each day it failed to produce the evidence for the FTC lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc.
Ladbrokes Coral, the high street bookmaker, has agreed to a takeover by GVC, the online rival, in a deal that is worth £4B, following two previous attempts to merge.
Turkish government has approved the 2018 central budget that included raised spending on the defence and anticipated fiscal deficit of $17.28B.
According to the local police, the death toll rose to around 90 people amid tropical storm in Mindanao, Philippines, which has triggered flooding and mudslides.
The proposed European reforms by France's President Macron will be in focus in the talks between German Chancellor Merkel's conservatives and centre-left SPD to form a government.
China has punished over 8,000 people for being engaged in fiscal violations after an audit of the 2016 central budget spendings revealed multiple issues.
Trade between China and North Korea rose $388M in November, but was still close to the lowest levels of this year, as sanctions kept slowing business with an isolated neighbour.
Royal Bank of Scotland is likely to pay $125M to settle claims on its misrepresentations during sales of mortgage-backed securities to California's two pension funds.
Credit Suisse announced expectations to take a $2.3B write-down during the fourth quarter of 2017, following the US tax system changes.
Keppel Offshore & Marine agreed to pay more than $422M to resolve charges the company bribed Brazil's officials, including some from state-owned oil company Petrobras.
The US financial regulator stated that the country's companies would have up to a year for final report, as new bill complicated it to be made timely.
Boeing was awarded a $6.2B worth contract for 36 F-15 jets for air force of Qatar, the Pentagon stated in a statement.
Fiat Chrysler US unit stated that it would recall 1.8M trucks in the US, Mexico, Canada and other markets to fix a detail and allow the driver to leave the park without the key ignited.
The EBRD said that it extended a $350M worth loan to Ukrainian biggest steel mill, which is owned by ArcelorMittal, for environment and modernisation.
Commodity trader ED&F Man showed in the report a $144.6B loss for the fiscal year ending September 30, citing solid underperformance in grains and sugar businesses.
Russia's biggest oil producer Rosneft reached a settlement with the Sistema conglomerate, which is likely to pay out $1.7B to resolve the dispute on the Basneft oil firm.
Germany's carmaker Daimler stated that the US tax reform is likely to result in the income tax advantage of €1.7B worth in the company's 2017 results.