On Friday, The Financial Times reported that British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline considers group's break-up after investors pressed pharma giant to spin off the consumer division.
On Friday, the President of the US Donald Trump warned that the White House is ready to impose additional tariffs on $500B of import from China, escalating a trade war between the US and China.
According to a Russian defence official, Russia has given the United States a plan on Syrian refugees return from camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
The Foreign Ministry of Turkey said on Friday it was ready to normalize relations with the Netherlands and return ambassador back to The Hague.
After the Japanese Parliament on Friday passed a law clarifying regulation of casinos, local companies are expected raise their stakes in the country's first resorts.
According to media reports, big American companies such as Alcoa and Amazon are actively looking for ways to smooth the effect from hostile trade policies of the Trump administration.
The Automotive News reported on Saturday that Ferrari and Fiat boards will have a meeting devoted to search of replacement of the current CEO Sergio Marchionne.
One of the largest cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced on Friday creation of a political action committee (PAC) whose goal is to raise funds for the next American elections.
China's social e-commerce sector will reach $170B in 2018, a 66.7% year-on-year increase, a report by the 2018 China Internet Conference shows.
The Pentagon plans to provide Ukraine with $200M in security assistance for additional training and equipment to counter Russia's influence in the region.
The Chinese internet sector received $27.6B in the second quarter of 2018, a 72.5% year-on-year increase, a report by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology shows.
The Brazilian government on Friday reduced its growth forecast to 1.6% from 2.5% and increased inflation estimate to 4.2% from 3.4% in 2018.
The Republican party voted on Friday to hold their 2020 presidential convention in Charlotte North Carolina.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sated on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump discussed ending the crisis in Syria and find a way to return refugees who fled the country.
Honeywell International Inc stated on Friday that it has begun to source some of its parts from different countries rather than China, to meet growing costs because of tariff war.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated on Friday that the United Nation Security Council are united to seek for a final and verified denuclearization of North Korea.
Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to stay in office regardless of pressures at home and abroad, she also vowed to work on Germany's strained relationships with the United States.
On Friday, the New York Times reported that President's Donald Trump long-time lawyer Michael Cohen secretly taped a conversation with Donald Trump, regarding payments to a onetime Playboy model.
AT&T announced that North Carolina, Charlotte and Raleigh, Oklahoma are three more cities, where the company planned to launch 5G network by the end of 2018.
Canada's retail sales grew 2.0% in the month of May, compared to an upwardly revised 0.9% fall in the prior month, the report by Statistics Canada revealed.
Statistics Canada stated that the overall rate of inflation rose 2.5% in June, compared with the same period a year earlier, while analysts anticipated a 2.5% increase.
The Bank of Japan was in active discussions ahead of this month's monetary policy decision, considering changes to stock-buying techniques and interest-rate targets.
The mobile phone operator Veon is set to cut its management job positions amid the company's intention to simplify its structure and return to the traditional telecoms model.
General Electric, the US industrial conglomerate, posted a smaller-than-expected plunge in the Q1 profit this Friday, as renewable energy and weakness in power offset its aviation gains.