On Thursday, the US Senate backed the US President Donald Trump's nominee Kathleen Laura Kraninger to chair the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
According to sources familiar with the matter, a Brazilian federal court ruled to disallow Embraer's board to sign a deal with Boeing, which resulted in 2.4% shares drop of the South American plane maker.
On Thursday, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau categorically denied that his government was somehow involved in arrest of the Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.
According to data released by the US Energy Department, the volume of exported crude oil last week for the first time exceeded the volume of imported commodity, thus making the country a net oil exporter.
William Barr, the former US Attorney General, who served under the ex-President George H.W. Bush, might return to his job soon, being the leading nominee to replace Jess Sessions.
On Thursday, Singapore's authorities stated they were set to block the shares re-listing of Noble Group, putting the company's $3.5B worth debt rescue plan at risk.
The European Union is set to make an offer to the Swiss stock exchanges to give it two more years of rights to lead operations in the EU bloc, if the country's government grants an approval to the overall deal regarding their future relations.
On Thursday, the US supermarket chain Kroger has reported its quarterly same-store sales plunged short of estimates, beat by disruptions caused by stores' revamping and sending the company's shared down nearly 3%.
Israeli medical cannabis firm InterCure is preparing for a listing on Nasdaq in the middle of the next year, according to the company's major shareholder Alex Rabinovitch.
On Thursday, the Indian indebted carrier Jet Airways has promised to its pilot union that it would clear all salary backlogs by April 2019, providing them with a schedule showing the payout dates.
The US company Lumentum Holdings has received China's antitrust approval for a takeover of Oclaro that had been valued at $1.7B.
The buyout firm Siris Capital Group and the hedge fund Elliott Management consortium is close to clinch a takeover deal of Travelport Worldwide, the travel software company, sources reported on Thursday.
On Thursday, the French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire stated the country would impose taxes on the digital titans, such as Google and Facebook, starting from the next year, if the EU-wide tax agreement could not be reached.
Bosch, the German car supplier, stated on Thursday it was seeing a sluggish growth in the global car production next year due to a China's cool-down and falling demand for diesel vehicles in Europe.
On Thursday, Mallinckrodt announced about its plans to spin off the specialty generics arm to its shareholders until the next year's second half, ending the search for an appropriate strategic option for the firm.
A Chairman of Honk Kong's Hopewall Holdings made a proposal to take the group private in a potential deal worth $2.7B, sending its shares up as much as 32% on Thursday.
On Thursday, the financial news outlet TheStreet announced it would sell some of the firm's B2B business units, BoardEx and The Deal, to the British company Euromoney Institutional Investor in a deal worth $87.3M.
The PE firm KKR has led a $100M investment into Cross River Bank, the community bank that owns several famous fintech start-ups in the US, both companies announced on Thursday.
The Finnish firm Amer Sports is nearing a deal worth $5.2B to be acquired by the Chinese Anta Sport-led consortium, which would take 58% of the company.
On Thursday, the ride-hailing service Lyft has confidentially filed for its initial public offering with the US Securities & Exchange Commission, not specifying the amount of shares or the price range for listing.
It was announced by BYD of China on Thursday that the company intends to list on stock exchanges its battery business, which mainly serves electric vehicles. The listing is planned to occur by 2022.
On Thursday, a top executive of Huawei was arrested in Canada under the request of the United States. The event is set to negatively impact the US and China trade truce.
Washington state regulator has rejected a proposed acquisition of the electric utility Avista by Canada's rival Hydro One, as the deal deemed to not keep Avista's customers safe from financial or political risk.
Brazil's miner and world's key nickel producer Vale SA is set to acquire the mid-sized iron miner Ferrous Resources that could be valued at $550M, including debt.