The US carmaker Ford announced plans to cut 1.15K jobs in the UK with nearly 1K job losses at the company's Bridgend engine plant in Wales.
General Motors stated that its revamped lineup of pickup truck is likely to boost 2019 earnings, while Cadillac is likely to be its lead EV brand, sending shares more than 8% up.
On Friday, India's IT services firm Infosys raised its annual revenue growth estimates to 8.5-9% in the constant currency, from its previously announced 6-8%.
Accenture's CEO Pierre Nanterme is set to step down from his position amid health reasons, the outsourcing and consulting firm announced on Friday, and will be replaced by David Rowland.
SEAS-NVE and Enel have lined up the final bids for the Danish power grid worth around $2.9B sold by the energy firm Orsted, sources reported.
On Friday, 21st Century Fox stated it had no plans to bid for the regional sports networks owned by Walt Disney, which it might sell to receive the US approval for Fox's TV and film assets purchase.
Slack Technologies is planning to pursue a direct listing in the Q2, which could potentially make it the second large technology company, WSJ reported on Friday.
The world's biggest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev is considering to launch an initial public offering of its Asian business in a move that would help the firm to ease the debt burden.
Several China's electronics retailers, such as JD.com and Alibaba's Suning have trimmed the prices for iPhones this week, as Apple blamed the smartphone poor sales in the country.
On Friday, Germany's broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media denied Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper's speculations about the company's potential takeover by the local publisher Alex Springer.
As Friday's trading was ending in Asia, the Chinese Yuan had booked its best week of gains since 2005 when its value was untied from the US Dollar.
On Friday, global stock prices slightly recovered. The recovery was mostly fueled by the announcement that the Federal Reserve will not squeeze their monetary policy as previously intentioned.
Apple is set to launch three new models of iPhone in the current year, including successor to the tech giant's struggling XR phone model, according to the Wall Street Journal.
On Friday, Zhejiang Geely Holding stated the company had not sold shares in the German automaker Daimler, denying Bloomberg's report about cutting 9.7% stake.
China's Dalian Wanda Group filed for an initial public offering in the United States of its spots division, seeking to raise up to $500M, sources with a knowledge of the matter reported.
The Brazilian government granted its approval for a merger between Boeing and Embraer planemakers, maintaining the previously proposed terms of the deal.
The industrial groups Alstom and Siemens are in talks about additional divestments with the EU Commission to receive the approval for their Franco-German rail champion plan, according to Reuters.
Virgin Atlantic-led consortium is nearing a deal to acquire Flybe Group, the British regional airline, according to Sky News report with no further details provided about the deal's financial terns.
Brazil's food processor BRF announced a sale of the company's last unit in Argentina, Campo Austral, in a deal worth $35.5M with the local rivals.
Norway's Petroleum Directorate stated that it anticipated the country's oil industry investments to surpass $16.56B in 2019.
Audi delivered around 1.81M vehicles to customers worldwide last year, 3.5% less than in the preceding year, the German carmaker stated.
Cadillac is anticipated to become General Motors's lead EV brand, as the US automaker gears up to introduce its new model under the competition with Tesla.
JPMorgan Chase & Co boosted its bonus pool 3% for 2018 after the division of investment banking topped charts throughout the year, sources familiar with the matter stated.
Japan's carmaker Honda is set to shut the UK operations for six days in the month of April to help to counter border disruption from the UK departure from the EU.