Mexico's industrial activity increased 0.4% in February, compared to the previous month, data published by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography show.
Retail sales in Italy rose 6.6% in February, compared to the prior month, a report published by the National Statistics Institute shows.
China's railway freight volume increased 12% to 920M tonnes in the first three months of the current year, the national railway operator reports.
Ford Motor sold 153,822 vehicles in China in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 73.3% from the same period in 2020, the Detroit News reports.
Bilateral trade between China and Brunei rose 72.5% to $1.91B in 2020, the Chinese Ambassador to Brunei Yu Hong says.
German exports to China increased 25.7% to $10.1B in February, compared to the same period in 2020, the Federal Statistical Office reports.
Average house prices in the UK reached a record high of $349,671 in March 2021, the British mortgage lender Halifax reports.
It was announced on Sunday, that the President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh had won his fifth Presidential election.
On Sunday, Reuters revealed that Korean battery production firms had come up with a solution to the ongoing trade dispute with the US.
On Saturday, the Chinese regulators have hit Alibaba Group Holding with a record fine of $2.75 billion for violating anti-monopoly rules.
On Friday, the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that President Joe Biden's 2022 budget plan would increase the overall IRS budget by $1.2B or 10.4%.
On Friday, officials from the United States and Iran disagreed over what sanctions the US should remove before Tehran returns to the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Investors and traders are looking ahead to the upcoming US corporate earnings reports, beginning next week, as overall S&P 500 earnings are expected to have surged by 25% in the first quarter.
On Friday, workers at an Amazon.com warehouse in Alabama voted against forming a union in a major win for the world's largest online retailer.
General Motors Co stated on Friday that it would cancel some shifts at two of its plants responsible for truck production because of the ongoing chip shortage.
On Friday, the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted that President's tax plan would increase the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget by $1.2B or 10.4%.
On Saturday, China instructed Alibaba to pay a $2.75B fine which was equivalent to nearly 4% of the company's revenue for abuse of its dominant position in the market.
The US President Joe Biden proposed $14B in funding initiatives to fight climate changes in the 2020 budget, including capital injections for science research and environmental regulation.
China's antitrust regulator is set to clear Tencent Holdings's plan to take one of the country's search engine Sogou private, sources said.
The government of Spain approved a plan to spend up to €800M until 2023 to encourage electric vehicle sales, the Energy Ministry stated.
As reported by statistics agency IBGE on Friday, the annual rate of consumer inflation in Brazil rose to 6.10% in March, the highest since December 2016.
Canada added 303,100 jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell to 7.5%, Statistics Canada reported on Friday.
Crude oil prices declined on Friday. Brent crude futures fell by 0.32% to $62.88 a barrel at 12:30 GMT, while the US West Texas Intermediate crude futures were at $59.43, down 17 cents.
As reported by the US Labor Department on Friday, US producer prices rose more than expected last month.