On Thursday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that Uzbekistan should avoid taking extreme actions against Islamic radicals.
The EIA reported on Thursday that natural gas inventories in the US climbed 45B cubic feet last week, down from the preceding week's 67B rise and below forecasts for a 52B gain.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to 236K in the week ending May 5, whereas analysts expected a rise to 245K from the prior week's 238K.
Producer prices in the United States surged 0.5% last month after falling 0.1% in March, while markets anticipated a rise of just 0.2%.
Prices for new houses in Canada rose 0.2% in March, following the preceding month's gain of 0.4% but meeting analysts' expectations.
The aerospace and engineering group Safran tends to complete 737 MAX aircraft engine issue as soon as in few weeks after Boeing halted its flight tests due to the glitch.
On Thursday, the Ukraine Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk announced that the country would choose and appoint one of the candidates for central bank head by September 2017.
German cyber agency rebuked Yahoo for inaction and refusal to cooperate into hacking probe on cyber attacks that compromised over 1B email service's users in a time period of 2013-2016.
The CEO of Germany's sportswear company Adidas Kasper Rorsted rejected the shareholders' calls to sell Reebok brand that yields losses as he believes a restructuring plan can restore its profitability.
The Kremlin expressed "cautious optimism" over the US-Russia relationship improvement after the President Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meeting, saying there would be a lot of work ahead.
Shares of the French aerospace group Safran were about 1% down on Thursday after Boeing announced it would halt 737 MAX aircraft's test flights amid an engine issue made by the group.
On Tuesday, the Court of China stated that the former statistics chief Wang Baoan pleaded guilty to taking $22M in bribes, increasing the number of officials brought down in the President Xi Jinping's corruption war.
Siemens plans to cut down 1.7K job positions in Germany, which is about 1.5% of the personnel in the company's home country, and move 1K positions amid an efficiency drive.
Official data on Thursday showed that the European Commission raised the Euro zone's growth forecast for this year, expecting unemployment to drop, while leaving the 2018 projection unchanged.
A set of disappointing UK fundamental data was released today, with the Industrial and Manufacturing Production growths edging down to -0.5% and -0.6%, respectively, while the Trade Deficit widened more than anticipated, as Brexit consequences continued to weigh on the British economy.
On Wednesday, Boeing suspended its 737 MAX aircraft test flights amid an engine issue made by General Electric and France's Safran SA, saying a potential problem may cause heavy expenses.
The European Union can require the ride-hailing application Uber to obtain a license and authorisation permit under the national law as the company provides transportation services.
A Syrian national and asylum seeker received a life imprisonment sentence after killing 20 injured soldiers of the President Bashar al-Assad's army.
On Thursday, BT announced that it intended to cut down 4K job positions in the multinational Global Services unit following the Italian accounting scandal, which took place in January.
According to the Wall Street Journal, American International Group is eager to appoint the current chief of Hamilton Insurance Group Brian Duperreault as a new AIG CEO as early as this week.
The South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed North Korea on Thursday and agreed on cooperation to reduce tensions over the provocative country's missile programme.
Samsung Electronics appointed a new mobile marketing chief amid company's executive reshuffle following the Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee arrest for alleged bribery.
Uber Tech has launched its services in Myanmar, only hiring taxi drivers who have State accreditation as the company tends to elude any legal hurdles.
One of India's top software services firms, HCL Technologies Ltd., reported a strong increase in profit in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended on March 31. The report showed a 28% rise, due to an increase in clientèle.