On Friday, crude oil prices gained about 1.5%, lifted by signs that China and the United States could soon settle their trade war.
On Friday, S&P 500 reached an eight-week high after better-than-expected US job growth eased worries about a slowdown.
Amazon.com forecast its Q1 sales to fall short of expectations, after hitting the record in the holiday quarter, and sending its shares down 5% to $1,635.
An ex-Australian lawmaker has retired from the Huawei Technologies' local unit on Friday, a move that could potentially weaken the company's efforts to deal with the market access restriction issues.
Germany's Symrise stated it was set to expand its pet food activities in the $900M purchase of the provider of pet food ingredient, ADF/IDF.
Indonesia's ride-hailing firm Go-Jek raised about $1.0B in its round of funding, led by Tencent Holdings, JD.com and Alphabet's Google, sources with a knowledge of the matter reported on Friday.
Austria's aeroplane parts developer FACC stated it would seek to become more independent from suppliers by spending $572M in acquisitions, as well as add new technologies and boost its core business.
The UK energy supplier SSE agreed on selling almost half of the stake in the Scottish wind farms, Dunmaglass and Stronelairg, to Greencoat UK Wind, the renewables fund, and British pension fund for £635M.
On Friday, the Finnish largest utility Fortum it had increased its stake in the German energy firm Uniper to 49.99%, while also posting a jump in its Q4 comparable operating profit.
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' rocket firm, has clinched an agreement with the Canadian firm Telesat over launching the satellite constellation's part, which provides speedy internet access to businesses and government globally.
On Friday, China Southern Airlines stated it had inked a MoU with the Gulf airline Emirates for the codesharing agreement that covered 18 routes and would come into force on March 31.
The Venezuela PDVSA-owned US refiner Citgo denied a Thursday's report claiming the firm was weighting to file for bankruptcy in the US amid dispute between Venezuela's leftist government and the President Donald Trump.
WorldFirst, the UK currency exchange start-up, will shut down its US operations to avoid a possible regulatory hurdle for the planned takeover by the Chinese fintech group Ant Financial Services, the FT reported on Friday.
Jet Airways accepted the most of Etihad Airways' bailout conditions, sending Jet's shares up as much as 18% on Friday, according to the Business Standard.
The cement maker LafargeHolcim announced on Friday it had finalised the sale of an Indonesian unit in a deal that valued the company at $1.75B.
Nintendo Co Ltd announced on Friday that it joined forces with Line Corp and began developing new mobile game called "Dr. Mario World" that is planned to be released this summer.
The acting Finance Minister of India Piyush Goyal stated on Friday that the country's fiscal deficit this year would reach 3.4% instead of the initially planned 3.3%.
On Friday, an altered foreign direct investment (FDI) regulation came into effect forcing large e-commerce companies, such as Amazon to refuse to sell various goods in India.
The US President Donald Trump stated on Thursday that in nearest future he would meet with China's leader Xi Jinping to try to close a bilateral trade deal.
Quarterly reports from Visa and Mastercard indicated a decline in cardholder's overseas spending next year amid the strong Dollar, an outcome of the US-China trade dispute and Brexit.
An official survey revealed that India's jobless rate rose to to the highest level in 45 years during 2017-2018, the Business Standard reported.
The Italian economy contracted for the second quarter in succession at the end of 2018, falling quarterly 0.2% between October and December, after a 0.1% percent decline in the Q3.
The Canadian GDP contracted 0.1% in the month of November, though analysts suggested that it is unlikely to be enough to deter the BoC from further monetary policy tightening in the H2 of this year.
The US labour costs rose steadily in the Q4, as employers increased benefits for employees, encouraging the biggest annual increase since 2009.