On Friday, the US Energy Secretary Rick Perry endorsed the release of 4.5M barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to cope with disruptions caused by the Hurricane Harvey.
On Friday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission decided to withdraw its fraud lawsuit against the New York Global Group's founder Benjamin Wey.
On Friday, crude oil prices lost 36 cents and settled down at $52.50 a barrel, as one-fourth of the US refining sector remained closed after the Hurricane Harvey.
On Friday, the US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan urged the US President Donald Trump not to cancel the DACA program that protects illegal underage immigrants.
Microsoft announced on Friday that it planned to introduce new features with Windows 10 update, so called "mixed reality" features in the October software release.
New official data showed that nearly 400 Rohingya Muslims had died during the last week's violence in Myanmar, authorities reported on Friday.
The Finnish police reported on Friday that it had released another man of the suspects over the stabbing attack in Turku two weeks ago, leaving only the main suspect in pre-trial detention.
The majority of traders continue to see the next Federal Reserve rate hike in the middle of the year 2018, based on a Reuters analysis.
The Kremlin reported that the US decision to close Russia's consulate in San Francisco would probably increase tensions between the two countries.
Crude oil slipped down after the tropical storm Harvey damaged and shut down nearly 24% of the US refining industry.
Two more citizens of Germany have been detained by Turkish officials for what German authorities named "political" reasons.
The Foreign minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov on Friday announced that Moscow will respond against US sanctions harshly.
According to the Bureau of Labour Statistics, the jobless rate in the United States climbed to 4.4% in August, topping analysts' expectations for an unchanged reading of 4.3%.
Procure reported on Friday that its PMI for Switzerland's manufacturing sector rose to 61.2 in August, while analysts anticipated a slight drop to 60.4, following the prior month's 60.9 reading.
Vietnam is protesting over the Chinese military exercise in the South China Sea, urging its neighbour to calm and cease the operations as tensions between the countries deteriorate over the disputed waterway.
On Friday, Toyota and Nissan joined Germany's Volkswagen and launched their own trade-in scheme for the British buyers as sales plunged, aiming to reduce the number of older polluting diesel vehicles.
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Kenya declared the election win of the President Uhuru Kenyatta invalid amid the election board's committed irregularities and called for a new vote in two months.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it had almost completed the spin-off of its software business on Friday, closing the door on the 2011 Autonomy's acquisition and focusing on data centre hardware and software.
The Vice President of the European Central Bank Vitor Constancio said that uncertainty over global economic recovery hindered normalisation of Euro zone's unemployment and inflation.
The Swedish manufacturer Saab AB is to collaborate with Adani Group in a bid to receive an order for single-engine jets from the Indian military, the company's CEO Hakan Buskhe said on Friday.
Germany's automaker Volkswagen launched a new scheme to remove the older polluting diesel vehicles from the roads, offering for the UK buyers up to £6K worth new VW car, if they trade-in the older vehicle.
The Norwegian government stated on Friday it was tightening the IT security ahead of the Parliamentary elections scheduled on September 11 to prevent voter fraud.
Britain's outsourcer G4S suspended nine employees of an immigration removal centre amid investigation into an alleged treatment abuse of migrants reported by BBC.
On Friday, the death toll in the Mumbai 117-year-old building collapse rose to 33, while the total number of survivors pulled from the rubble reached a figure of 15 people.