The Austrian Chancellor on Wednesday reconfirmed his belief that the EU should extend the Brexit deadline, if the UK Parliament does not pass the current Brexit deal.
Pan American Silver's $1.07B cash-and-stock deal to acquire its rival Tahoe Resources was granted an approval by shareholders of the two companies, potentially breathing a new life into Guatemala's struggling Escobal mine.
China is set to introduce new policies to strengthen domestic consumption on such items as home appliances and autos in 2019, according to the country's key state planning official.
Taylor Wimpey, the British third-biggest builder, stated the 2019 sales indicators were solid , after saying the 2018 report would come in line with company's expectations, after posting a 3% rise in the homes number built.
The Venezuelan opposition-run congress banned the oil deals among the state-owned firm PDVSA and French and US companies due to not sending them for a lawmakers' approval.
Ted Baker, the British fashion retailer, reported on Wednesday its retail sales rose 12.2% during the Christmas holiday period, driven by higher demand for its online products.
Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese e-commerce giant, acquired data Artisans, Germany's data analysis start-up, in a deal worth nearly €90M, according to Handelsblatt daily newspaper's report showed on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Sainsbury announced its sales, excluding fuel, plunged 1.1% in its key Christmas Q3, a lower-than-expected drop in the company's underlying sales.
Vietnamese officials announced on Wednesday that Facebook has violated the country's new cyber security law. The violation is the allowing users to post anti-government comments.
On Wednesday, Chinese officials announced that in 2019 the fiscal target deficit of will be 2.8% of the GDP. In 2019 the deficit target was 2.6%.
During the early hours of Wednesday's trading crude oil prices climbed more than one percent. The surge was an extension of this week's climb caused by OPEC production cuts and an incident in Nigeria.
Survey results published by the Bank of Japan on Wednesday revealed that consumer confidence had decreased to a three month low level in December.
South Korea's job growth was the weakest in nine years in 2018, with the jobless rate rose to the highest level in 17 years, the report revealed.
The US supermarket chain Kroger announced plans to raise $1.2B via debt offering, according to the US regulatory filing.
Apple cut planned production plan for three new iPhone models nearly 10% for the March quarter, a week after it slashed the quarterly sales forecast.
The UK employers hired staff in the month of December at the weakest pace since April 2017, suggesting that the economic growth cooled before Brexit, the report from the REC and KPMG revealed.
South Korean tech giant LG Electronics reported a record operating profit in 2018 amid strong sales of premium TVs and other electronics, the company reports.
Sri Lanka's unemployment rate declined to 4.1% in the third quarter of 2018, Sri Lanka's Census and Statistics Department reports.
Investment in Rwanda reached a record high of more than $2B in 2018, a significant increase from $1.67B in 2017, the Rwanda Development Board reports.
Uganda's public debt of 41.5% of the GDP is sustainable in the medium and long term, Uganda's Finance Minister Matia Kasaija says.
German firms lose €300B in turnover every year to illegal employment, a study published by the German Economic Institute shows.
Taiwan's Consumer Price Index increased by 1.35% in 2018 after a first monthly decline of 0.5% in December since November 2017, the island's statistical agency says.
India is a very reliable partner for Iran despite the US sanctions on the Islamic republic, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says.
More than a million tourists have visited Nepal in 2018, an increase of 24.77% from the previous year, the Nepal Tourism Board reports.