The Philippine GDP for the second quarter rose at an annualised pace of 6.5%, up from 6.4% growth registered in the March quarter, amid boom in construction.
Mexican negotiator stated that talks on the NAFTA renegotiation must include new financial services discussion, as fintech companies started to gain ground rapidly.
Australia announced new measures aimed to strengthen money laundering laws, which included bringing bitcoin suppliers under the AUSTRAC remit.
Russia would start building the first high-speed railroad between Moscow and Kazan in 2018, which is expected to be a part of a rail line linked with Beijing.
Malta signed an agreement with Italy, which identifies educational and cultural activities and partnership opportunities for both counties in a three years period until 2019.
Japanese total exports increased 13.4% year-over-year in July, after a 9.7% rise in the prior month, being supported by solid growth in auto shipments to the US.
Loretta Mester, the President of Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, said on Wednesday that the Fed should continue to increase interest rate despite announcement of recent data on the US inflation.
On Wednesday, the US Vice President Mike Pence urged Latin American countries to "break all ties with North Korea".
Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Foreign Minister of Iraq, referred to international community for help to collect and retain evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Islamic State fighters.
On Wednesday, the US Dollar depreciated against all major currencies, including the Swiss Franc and Japanese Yen, amid a release of the Fed Policy Meeting Minutes and Trump's decision to disband two business councils.
On Wednesday, the US President Donald Trump decided to disband both the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum after a number of authoritative CEOs announced their resignations.
On Wednesday, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Venezuelan government and opposition leaders to resume negotiations and find an acceptable solution to end political crisis within the country.
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, expressed hopes that Iran would not decide to quit the nuclear agreement reached in 2015 even if the US imposed more sanctions.
Danish company Maersk reported a $264M loss for the first six months of 2017, though kept its yearly projections unchanged.
Britain is set to avoid any immigration checks for Irish and UK citizens along the border between both countries after Brexit, the government stated.
Online retailer Amazon stated that it would build a new distribution centre in the UK next year and hire at least 1,000 additional staff.
The Commerce Department reported that building permits in the US fell 4.1% to 1.22M units in July, missing analysts' forecasts for a figure of 1.25M units.
The Euro zone's GDP expanded by a quarterly 0.6% in the Q2 as previously anticipated, while yearly pace of growth accelerated to 2.2%, above expectations for a 2.1% rise.
Fiat Chrysler is aimed to join the BMW-led alliance to develop autonomous cars, aiming to put its self-driving vehicle technology into production by the year of 2021.
The German Chancellor Angel Merkel stated on Wednesday that the country's taxpayers would unlikely pay for the Air Berlin rescue, one day after the struggling company filed for insolvency protection.
On Wednesday, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to exert pressure on the carmakers as she was aimed to accelerate the transition process to electric vehicles.
The EU observers in Kenya urged the country's election commission to post all the remaining vote results on the website to ensure the accuracy and transparency of the process.
The Japanese and US military jets conducted air drills on Wednesday on the Korean peninsula's southwest as North Korea was thinking over missile firing towards the US territory of Guam.
The US biggest health insurer UnitedHealth announced on Wednesday that its CEO Stephen Hemsley was eager to quit his post and would be replaced by the President David Wichmann.