Japanese core machinery orders revealed the fastest decline in three years, falling 11.9% in December, suggesting that the recent rise in capital expenditure may fade.
As analysts expected, the Australian unemployment rate fell to 5.5% in January from 5.6% in the preceding month, according to the ABS.
The ABS reported on Thursday that the number of people employed rose 16K in January, after climbing 33.5K in the prior month, whereas analysts anticipated a gain of 15.3K.
The Romanian economy expanded at the fastest pace compared to other European Union member countries in 2017, official data shows.
The Cyprus economy expanded 3.9% year-on-year in 2017, the highest growth in almost a decade, a statement published by the Eurostat shows.
Democrats on Wednesday asked for more than $1B to improve cyber security of US voting systems.
A group of technology experts and academics plan to launch a block chain network called Mosaic that will reward researchers with its own tokens.
Airbus Group on Wednesday appointed Bruno Even from Safran Helicopter Engines as president of its helicopter division.
Google plans to raise the price of YouTube TV service for new customers as it expands the range of channels, the company says.
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday backed SpaceX plan to build a broadband network using satellites.
The United States is open for talks with North Korea to discuss the nuclear weapons program, the US Vice President Mike Pence says.
The US retail sales revealed the strongest decline in almost a year, dropping 0.5% in January, as households diminished purchases of building materials and motor vehicles.
Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill rose 16%, as analysts named the company's recruitment of Brian Niccol, the CEO of Taco Bell, a transformation moment after years of scandals.
The EU Budget Commissioner stated that the bloc's next budget for the long term should be larger than the current despite the quit of the main net contributor United Kingdom.
The US consumer price increased at a stronger than anticipated pace of 0.5% in January, fueling expectations that the Fed would raise rates at a quicker pace this year.
France's President Emmanuel Macron stated that Iran's ballistic missile programme must be put under the international surveillance, as part of a bid to be tougher on Tehran.
On Wednesday, Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari reported that 36K people had been wounded and 18K killed since 2014 in the war led with the Islamic State militants.
Apple was in talks to make its first order of storage chips from the Chinese memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies, the Nikkei stated on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Credit Suisse reported the third straight annual loss of $1.05B amid the US tax writedown, missing analysts' expectations.
According to the BoE survey, the UK companies are planning wage increases of 3.1% within this year, the biggest since 2008, as higher minimum pay kicks in.
The Dutch news outlet ANP reported on Wednesday that the former Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili was in the Netherlands, after the expulsion from Ukraine earlier that week.
The Iraqi allies Turkey, Kuwait, Gulf states and Europe pledged the country billions of dollars in loans, investment and credit lines for reconstruction, their representatives stated on Wednesday.
According to the Royal House, the Danish Queen Margrethe's husband Prince Henrik died on Tuesday's night at the Fredensborg Castle.
During the first year of Trump's presidency the US government has doubled its funding for solar power use outside of the country.