Foreign ministers from Iran and China, both counties subjects to US sanctions, signed a 25-year partnership agreement on Saturday.
Vietnam received $4.1 billion in foreign direct investment in the first three-month period of this year, up 6.5% from 2020, government data revealed.
Chevron Corp was a leading contender to acquire a Royal Dutch Shell refinery in the US Pacific Northwest, sources familiar with the matter stated.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, annual profits of Chinese industrial companies spiked in January and February due to a rebound of the country's manufacturing sector.
The ECB top Economist Philip Lane stated on Saturday that the bank must continue serving the role of euro zone's main stabiliser.
On Friday, WeWork agreed to make an initial public offering after completing a merger with BowX Acquisition Corp.
Nissan Motor Co, Stellantis NV and Nio stated on Friday that they were also forced to lower vehicles production because of the chips deficit.
On Saturday, the German biggest trade union, IG Metall, reached an agreement with 70K steel industry workers over $295 lump-sum payouts.
The possible listing of Porsche AG is not the priority of the agenda of Volkswagen, CEO Herbert Diess said in an interview.
Honda agreed to sell its single UK car plant to logistics giant Panattoni, a company spokesman stated, as the new owner intended to make a big investment at the site.
The rulers of the Suez Canal announced on Friday that they would increase the efforts to free up the clog at the canal caused by the stuck cargo ship.
On Friday, the White House announced that the US President Joe Biden calls the leaders of 40 countries to a global climate summit.
The government of Canada announced on Friday that the national budget deficit had reached 268 billion Canadian Dollars.
On Friday, despite a minor decline the US Dollar remained near the recently reached 4-month high level.
During Friday's US trading hours, US stock indices recovered due to a broad-based rally that occurred on all USD traded assets.
Volkswagen will seek damages from former CEO Martin Winterkorn and ex-Audi's CEO Rupert Stadler over the diesel gate emissions cheating scandal, the German automaker announced on Friday.
On Friday, crude oil prices edged higher over 3% on concerns that it could take days or even weeks to dislodge the 224,000-ton vessel blocking Egypt's Suez Canal.
On Friday, Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6B defamation lawsuit against Fox News over the 2020 election-fraud claims.
As reported by the US Commerce Department on Friday, US consumer spending declined by 1% last month.
On Friday, Citi Group stated it had hired Goldman Sachs Group's executive Erika Irish Brown to head the bank's global diversity strategy.
WeWork is planning to go public via a SPAC merger deal with BowX Acquisition, valuing the office-sharing start-up at $9B, it stated on Friday.
On Friday, the main indexes of Wall Street opened higher, after investors had bought undervalued bank and energy stocks, hoping for a robust economic recovery.
Meituan, China's food delivery company, reported a Q4 loss on Friday after posting two quarters of profit in succession, as Maituan has expanded into the business of community group buying that relies on subsidies.
On Friday, Сhina's EV maker Nio Inc announced it would temporarily suspend production at its Hefei factory for five labour days amid global semiconductor chip shortage.