On Friday, the High Court of Australia declared the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce ineligible to stay in the Parliament, depriving the government of its one-seat majority.
Late on Thursday, the Mexican Senate approved a part of 2018 budget, taking measures to help hike fund allocation for recovery after the two quakes that hit the country last month.
On Friday, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the government continued to work as usual despite the citizenship row that forced the country's Deputy PM to leave the parliament.
The Euro zone's bailout fund ESM announced its decision to pay out €800M to Greece in a credit to secure funds for paying arrears of the Greek government.
China's search engine major Baidu expects weaker revenue prospects for the rest of 2017, blaming lost sales of advertising during the Congress meeting and sending its shares 10% down.
Amazon stated that its sales increased in summer and profit surpassed forecasts, as customers reacted on the company's Prime Day promotions and purchased at Whole Foods stores.
Chinese industrial powerhouses' profits grew the most in about six years by 27.7% over the course of September, as fears of supply shortages in winter sent prices sharply higher.
General Electric and Apple released app-making tools tailored to Predix, the GE's platform, for connecting jet engines, power plants and other equipment to the internet.
Japan's core CPI rose 0.7% year-over-year in September to mark a ninth monthly increase in succession, providing some hope for the BoJ that economic recovery could drive inflation to 2%.
Twitter said it might be profitable for the first time next quarter after cutting expenses over the past year and ramping up deals to sell its data to other companies.
As Russia is China's strategic partner of coordination, Beijing will not change its intention to deepen relations with Moscow regardless of violations in the international arena, China's President Xi Jinping said.
Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont said that he would hold a new regional election to break the standstill between Madrid and separatists wishing to split from Spain, fuelling political crisis.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin said that law enforcement agencies were obliged to take tough actions against individuals and groups using the Internet for spreading extremist ideas.
The Italian upper house Senate approved a new electoral system that is seen to derail the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement at an upcoming national election and favour mainstream political blocs.
Deutsche Boerse's CEO Carsten Kengeter has decided to step down amid ongoing allegations of insider trading.
The ECB pledged it would be careful in its intention to reduce the Eurozone's $990B pile of bad loans following complaints from Italy that it would hurt the economy.
The US House of Representatives passed a budget plan for the 2018 fiscal year, paving the way for deep tax cuts sought by the US President Donald Trump and Republican leaders.
An opinion poll published on Thursday showed the Icelandic Independence Party's strong lead over its political rivals ahead of Saturday's parliamentary vote.
The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales held steady last month after dropping 2.8% in August, whereas analysts anticipated a 0.2% rise.
The Census Bureau reported on Thursday that US wholesale inventories rose 0.3% in September, following the preceding month's jump of 0.9% and missing analysts' expectations for a 0.4% increase.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Thursday that the US trade deficit widened to $64.1B in September, from the preceding month's upwardly revised $63.3B gap.
The number of applications for US unemployment benefits surged 10K to 233K in the week ending October 21; however, still missing analysts' expectations for a 235K rise.
VW, BMW, Daimler and Apple warned the European Union's regulators over adopting patent fee model, which could damage hinder and consumers innovation.
According to the British government, the Brexit bill debate is scheduled for November 14-15 in the UK Parliament, another stage to test PM Theresa May's authority.