The Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is set to ask the country's President for extra time to establish the government, after receiving a 28-day period to do it with a possible extension of 14 days, according to Israel's law.
Great Wall Motor viewed its 2019 vehicle sales rise 8.65% year-over-year to 367,680 cars during the January-April period, adding its SUV sales surged 2.3% yoy to 298,394 units.
China's leading manufacturer of the new energy vehicles, BYD, reported a 123.1% growth in its sales for the 2019 January-April period due to continuing market boom, saying it had sold 97,183 NEVs this year, compared to 43,555 units last year.
Air France-KLM, Europe's leading airline, reported a 9.2% growth in its passenger traffic last month, as it numbered 7.46M passengers in April, up 8.8% from the previous year's same period.
Volkswagen is set to recall 92,621 defective vehicles in China starting from June 28 amid gearbox control modules and would involve over a dozen models such as Golf, Scirocco, Audi, Sagitar and the Beatle, according to the Chinese market regulator.
China's major brokerage company CITIC Securities reported a sharp decline in its April net profit to 526M yuan, down from its 1.38B yuan in March, according to the company's statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Nissan China and Dongfeng Motor are planning to recall 2.467 defective vehicles, with Dongfeng to phase out 314 Nissan Civilian buses produced between 2012-2013, while Nissan China to recall 2.153 the same model vehicles, manufactured in the 1998-2012 time period.
China's aluminium products export maintains sustainable growth in the Q1, amounting to 1.28M tonnes, which is up 13.1% from the last year's same period, the MIIT reported.
Guangqi Honda Automobile is set to recall 3.316 imported cars in China starting from May 13, including the Acura MDX model, produced between September 2013 and August 2017, the country's State Administration for Market Regulation reported.
The Monetary Authority of Hong Kong granted their approval to issue the virtual banking licences to four entities, including Ant Financial and Tencent Holdings, aiming to encourage financial innovation in ex-Britain's colony.
The trading house Mitsubishi and MUFG Bank are set to extend the total of $1.63B in their funding to Chiyoda, sending about 30 managers and executives in a move to assist the plant-engineering company with recovering from its massive losses.
Insys Therapeutics may file for a bankruptcy due to a cash crunch that resulted from its legal costs related to the US Justice Department inquiry into sales practices for firm's powerful opioid medication.
On Friday, HSBC Holdings reported its profit soared due to a major improvement in the group's Asian operations with banking major marking the company is on track to reach its goals.
China's Suzhou is planning to implement new property tightening measures in some city parts to restrict house buyers from selling property during three years, the country's government stated on Saturday.
Banco BTG Pactual, the Brazilian investment bank, is not planning a sale of its Swiss lender EFG International stake, BTG's CFO João Dantas announced on Friday.
The future Britain's Labour government would over double the youth minimum wage for employees under the 18-year age to £10 per hour, the party's leader announced on Saturday.
Thyssenkrupp agreed on the way forward with its about leaders, after the German industrial group announced fresh restructuring deal that could cause a loss of about 6K job positions.
On Saturday, Patrick Shanahan, the US acting Defence Secretary, made the second visit to the US-Mexico border as the Pentagon eyes a development of the long-term plan to back the immigration policies proposed by the President Donald Trump.
Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African President, pledged to push through the country's tough reforms after he had won the African National Congress elections last wee, despite a recent decline in his party's confidence.
Teva Pharmaceuticals and other US drugmakers were accused by the several US states of organising a sweeping scheme to inflate prices on drugs, in some cases by over 1,000%, stifling competition for the generic drugs.
On Saturday, Bayer stated it would not tolerate "unethical behaviour" after France had opened an inquiry into an alleged file assembled by Germany's Monsanto, the seed making unit, to influence lawmakers and journalists on their positions regarding pesticides.
Fresenius entered talks with potential suitors over the blood transfusion business sale, hiring Goldman Sachs as the advisor to explore the possible deal, sources reported on Friday.
LVMH has collaborated with the Barbadian singer Rihanna to launch new fashion label Fenty after the singer's full name, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, in the French group's rare move to establish a brand from scratch, tapping into rising demand for tie-ups with celebrities in the luxury world.
Middle East's Etihad Airways submitted an offer for India's Jet Airways stake, the State Bank of India division, overseeing the stricken airline's sale.