According to sources with knowledge of the matter, the FBI is investigating Johnson & Johnson, Philips, Siemens and General Electric over the Brazilian graft case.
Brexit talks between the UK Prime Minister Theresa May and the opposition Labour Party have broken down, throwing the United Kingdom further into political disarray.
On Friday, Pinterest's shares edged lower by about 17% after forecast showed that it would take the company two years to become profitable.
The Japanese Yen edged up against a basket of major currencies on Friday, and the Chinese Yuan hit a six-month low, as the US-China trade war increased concerns about the global economic growth.
Olaf Scholz, Germany's Finance Minister, said that he expected the OECD to reach an agreement on minimum taxation for digital firms by 2020.
Manufacturing sales increased 2.1% to $43B in March on better sales of transportation equipment and primary metals, the Statistics Canada reports.
South Korean industrial companies reported a decline in profits in the first quarter of the current year on the global economic slump, data published by the national stock exchange shows.
The Chinese government invested more than $222B in the healthcare sector the previous year, an annual growth of 11.7%, the State Council of the People's Republic of China reports.
The Asian Development Bank President Takehiko Nakao met with the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to discuss loans for projects in energy and transportation sectors.
Samsung is investing more than $14B to build its chip plant in the northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the Vice President of Samsung China Semiconductor, Hyunki Ji, says.
The agricultural trade between the Central and Eastern European Countries and China has grown rapidly to $1.2B on an annual basis, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Changfu says.
The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with the Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission, Yang Jiechi, to discuss bilateral relations.
The US President Donald Trump postponed tariffs on imported cars and car parts for half a year to "address the national security threat", the White House reports.
South Africa wants more innovation in the tourism sector to offer new tourist destinations, the Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom says.
Financial institutions reported capital inflow of $761M from investors in the first three months of 2019, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange reports.
On Friday, Pinterest's shares dropped 17% after the company's annual estimates disappointed investors, raising concerns over the online scrapbook firm's capability to turn into profit in the nearest time.
Samsung Electronics, South Korea's tech giant, is planning to spend over $14B in its investment's second phase in the memory chip factory in China's city of Xian, the Xinhua news outlet reported on Friday.
The European Union has eliminated Aruba, the Dutch Caribbean island, the UK overseas territory of Bermuda and Barbados from the bloc's tax haven blacklist on Friday, leaving no European area on the list.
On Friday, Olaf Scholz, Germany' Finance Minister, stated he expected the OECD to agree on a tax minimal level for the digital firms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon by the middle of 2020.
The EU largest retailer Carrefour is considering a minority stake sale in its struggling Chinese business and has already started to look for potential buyers, according to Reuters.
OneConnect, the financial technology division owned by Ping An Insurance, has hired Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to advise on its planned initial public offering in Hong Kong worth up to $1.0B.
UBS, Banco Santander, Credit Suisse Group, Barclays and other world's biggest banks invested about $50M to establish a digital cash settlement project that uses blockchain technology.
SpaceX has postponed the launch of the Starlink satellite once again for around a week amid inclement weather late on Thursday, seeking to update satellite's software and make a re-check.
The Italian government will seek to prevent a break-up of the struggling planemaker Piaggio Aerospace, Luigi Di Maio, the country's Deputy Prime Minister, announced on Friday.