The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales declined 2.7% to a seasonally adjusted yearly rate of 5.85M units last month, the lowest level since last year's June.
The IHS Markit report showed that the US Manufacturing PMI increased to 61.5 in the first half of May to the highest level since 2009 amid solid domestic demand.
On Friday, Snap Inc announced it would acquire the UK augmented reality technology firm WaveOptics in a deal worth more than $500 million.
Daimler Truck's CEO Martin Daum stated on Friday that he expected further job losses in the coming 15 years at the European truck engine factories due to the transition to "green" trucks.
US stock indices started Friday's US trading with a gap up, as a previously started recovery was extended.
During Friday's US trading hours, the stock price of Nvidia surged by 3.77%. The move was attributed to the company announcing a 4-for-1 stock split.
Elon Musk is considering to establish Tesla's presence in Russia, including the potential building of factories there.
On Friday, SoftBank Group announced that Ron Fisher, the long-time lieutenant of the Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son, and the the chip designer Arm's CEO Simon Segars are set to leave the conglomerate's board.
China's Huawei Technologies has plans to expand the smart vehicle partnership with Chongqing Changan Automobile, with the expansion to include the development and design of the semiconductor chips.
On Friday, the Chinese internet watchdog stated that tech giants including Baidu, ByteDance and Microsoft had collected their user data improperly.
JD Logistics is eager to price its stock at $5.20 (HK$40.36), marking its indicated range's lower end, to attract $3.16B in its initial public offering in Hong Kong.
Morgan Stanley has announced changes in its leadership, as it started to look for a new successor for the current CEO James Gorman.
Indonesian antitrust agency intends to scrutinise the Gojek-Tokopedia merger deal worth billions of dollars, seeking to avoid monopoly in the tech industry.
On Friday, at 06:00 GMT the United Kingdom Retail Sales data was released. The country's retail sales had increased by 9.2% instead of the market forecast 4.5%.
On Friday, Reuters released a report on how various developing countries would battle inflation of oil, food and other goods.
London Stock Exchange Group and Thomson Reuters were in talks over their deal on news content distribution, following their dispute about the Reuters News website paywall.
Josh Harris, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, hands over his day-to-day role by stepping down as the private equity giant's managing director upon completion of its deal with Athene Holding.
Alphabet's Google announced its plans to open the first physical store based in New York City as soon as this summer, adding the store would be located in Chelsea and be a part of the company's campus in that neighbourhood.
Shell New Energies and Daimler Truck announced on Thursday that they had closed a deal that would have Shell set up hydrogen stations for Daimler Truck.
On Thursday, the CEO of Morgan Stanley James Gorman changed the leadership of the bank in an effort to look for his future replacement.
JPMorgan Chase has launched a new healthcare-focused unit for its employees, a couple of months after that bank's similar venture with Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon.com was disbanded.
The US department store operator Kohl's stated on Thursday that the company would raise its 2021 earnings forecast due to an expected shopping boom.
On Thursday, Tencent announced that the company's first quarter profits increased by 65% due to a surge in online gaming revenues.
Data released on Thursday revealed that US weekly jobless claims had continued to decline during the prior week, as less than 500,000 claims were filed.