On Monday, the People's Bank of China announced it had established a fintech committee to examine the fintech impact on the country's monetary policy and financial stability.
According to Bloomberg, the US biotechnology product development company Thermo Fisher is in advanced talks to acquire the leading pharmaceutical CDMO Patheon.
Fixed-asset investment, China's proxy measure for long-run spending, climbed 8.9% year-to-date in April, while economists had predicted a 9.1% increase.
The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported on Monday that retail sales jumped 10.7% year-over-year in April, following a 10.9% surge reported in March.
The seasonally adjusted number of home-loan approvals in Australia declied 0.5% in March, while analysts expected it to be flat at 0.0%.
The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported that China's industrial output fell 6.5% year-over-year in April, following 7.6% registered in March.
Natalia Timirisa of the IMF forecasted the non-oil GDP in the United Arab Emirates to uncrease about 3.3% in 2017, up from 2.7% last year, as austerity falls amid low oil prices.
Statistics New Zealand reported that the country's retail sales increased 1.5% in Q1, up from the downwardly revised figure of 0.6% registered in the preceding quarter.
The UK Brexit Minister David Davis reported on Sunday that Britain was actively preparing for divorce talks with the EU due to start next month.
The Austrian Finance Minister Sebastian Kurz said he would meet with the Chancellor Christian Kern on Monday to propose a snap election.
A senior US Democrat said that Democrats would not vote on a new FBI Director unless the General Deputy Attorney appoints a special prosecutor to investigate Russia's interference in the US Elections.
The centre-right Austrian People's Party appointed the Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz as its new leader, Kurz told local media on Sunday.
Diplomats reported that the UN Security Council would hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss North Korea's Sunday missile launch.
On Sunday, North Korea launched a non-nuclear ballistic missile that landed 97 km south of Russia's Vladivostok region, according to US officials.
The President of France Emmanuel Macron is expected to meet the IOC evaluation commission on Tuesday in an attempt to support Paris bid to carry out the 2024 Games.
France condemned the latest North Korea's missile test as it was a serious threat to security and called the country to conform with its international commitments.
Thousands of people joined a protest in the center of Moscow, showing concerns about government plans to resettle citizens from Soviet-era apartments.
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka is likely to tell coalition on Monday whether he is ready to accept a finance minister's proposed replacement.
Poland and Hungary feared about losing their influence in the EU single market after Emmanuel Macron was elected as French President.
China is able to maintain stability in country's financial markets and is set to keep the Yuan steady, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang revealed.
The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he had several candidates in mind to replace the central bank's Governor Valeria Gontareva.
The French automaker Renault expects to resume normal production on Monday in the factories that suffered from the global cyber attack.
Austria's Chancellor Christian Kern said that the country would hold a snap parliamentary election this year, giving the far-right Freedom Party a chance of entering the national government.
The Dubai government said that it secured $3Bin long-term financing for the expansion of airports, one of three multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects.