On Friday, North Korea handed what believed to be the remains of US soldiers killed during the Korean War some 65 years ago.
Twitter Inc reported fewer monthly active users than expected on Friday as it warned that the closely watched numbers could keep declining while it deletes fake accounts making shares to plummet.
The United States economy grew at 4.1% in the second quarter, its fastest movement in almost four years as consumers spending increases and farmer sold more soybeans to China before the tariffs took effect in July.
On Thursday, Electronics Arts reported its quarterly adjusted revenue growth came at $1.16B, missing analysts expectations of a $1.23B reading.
On Friday, the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stated he had agreed with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin to negotiate a nuclear power agreement in the near future.
SK Hynix is planning a $1.6B share buy-back, seeking to invest $3.1B to establish new semiconductor factory in South Korea, boosting the DRAM memory chipmaker shares up 3.5%.
On Friday, shares in Intel dropped 9% amid fears that Advance Micro Devices might be chiseling off the market share from the high-margin data centre business.
Shares in Amazon.com surged 4%, hitting the record-high, as the online retailing titan's Q2 profit topped $2.0B for the first time.
Italy's largest utility Enel is seeking to negotiate the stake sale in EF Solare, the solar joint venture, to its partner F2i, sources reported on Friday.
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg loses over $15B on Thursday, after the social media firm had suffered the largest one-day wipe-out in the US stock market history.
Germany is accelerating its efforts to protect its key companies from the Chinese investors by acquiring a stake in the high-voltage energy network operator and seeking to veto the machine-tooling business sale.
Thomson Reuters's Financial and Risk division is set to be renamed Refinitiv after the US private equity group Blackstone acquires a controlling stake in the unit.
According to the Information news outlet, the Chinese firm Hillhouse Capital Group has entered talks over a potential purchase of Yum China Holdings, KFC restaurants' operator in the country.
South African firm Naspers is thinking over listing some of the e-commerce ventures in New York and Hong Kong, as it seeks to narrow a discount between its Tencent stake and market value.
Hyatt Hotels, the US global hospitality firm, has expressed its interest in the Spanish bid target NH Hotel group, escalating a takeover fight with Thailand's Minor International.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said it was the right decision to block a bitcoin ETF proposed by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss due to the fear of possible manipulation.
The British company BP plc is set to purchase oil and gas assets from the US-based BHP Billiton for $10.5B, thus expanding the company's operations in the United States.
Chinese market watchdog stated it was still open to talks over the scrapped Qualcomm's takeover worth $44B of NXP Semiconductors to resolve antitrust concerns that halted the deal.
On Thursday, the software developer Atlassian stated it would leave the chat-platform business unit by selling team-chat tools Hipchat Cloud and Stride to the privately-held Slack Technologies.
On Friday, Ageas Chief Executive Bart De Smet stated that no approach had been made by China's Fosun to bid for the Belgian insurer.
Wells Fargo & Co is considering to sell the US bank's Eastdil Secured real-estate unit, a report by the Wall Street Journal showed on Thursday.
Chesapeake Energy is planning a sale of its Utica natural gas acreage shale stake to the privately-held Encino Acquisition Partners in a deal valued at around $2.0B.
Facebook is acquiring the Israeli messaging company Redkix, as it seeks the firm to join its Workplace team to assist companies collaborate.
Samsung Display announced on Friday that its newly developed bendable and unbreakable screen has successfully passed safety testings of Underwriters Laboratories and received a corresponding American certification.