US stocks edged higher Tuesday, as investors and traders monitor the ongoing US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting.
The US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that trade negotiations between the United States and China "are going very well".
Shares across the world extended its gains for the seventh consecutive trading session, the longest upside rally of the year.
John Bolton, the US National Security Adviser, said that UK's political establishment has failed to implement the 2016 Brexit referendum.
European shares ended Tuesday's trading session near a six-month high, led by a surge in automakers stocks.
The US Office of Comptroller of Currency announced on Tuesday that it had fined Citigroup the sum of $25M for the violation of fair lending rules.
On Tuesday, the European Securities and Markets Authority released guidance on share trading in the event of no Brexit agreement.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the United States and China are planning to begin new rounds of trade talks next week.
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to ask the European Union for a three-month Brexit delay after another vote on her Brexit deal was derailed.
On Tuesday, Google Inc's unveiled a dubbed Stadia video game service, which allows users to stream high-end games on their browser.
On Tuesday, India's Mindtree rejected a hostile takeover bid made by the conglomerate Larsen & Toubro, claiming the company's plan to buy a majority stake would not create any value for the IT services firm.
Oman's Ministry of Gas and Oil and India's Accord Group have clinched a deal to construct a Sri Lanka oil refinery, a challenging move aimed at China, which had been the leading foreign investor in the country until that time.
Australia's Macquarie has agreed to sell Poland's Gdansk container terminal to an investor consortium, which includes the Polish sovereign wealth fund PFR, in a deal valued at $1.3B.
Shares of the Mexican cement producer Cemex surged by over 2% on Tuesday after the firm had announced a sale of its aggregates and assets in Germany.
Jones Lang LaSalle, the real estate services operator announced on Tuesday it would acquire HFF Inc, the provider of capital markets services, in the cash-and-stock deal worth around $2.0B.
On Tuesday, the British chemicals company INEOS stated it would acquire Cristal's US titanium dioxide business unit from Tronox in a deal valued at $700M.
The global private equity companies, such as Carlyle, KKR and CVC, have raised their interest in the Asian hospital business owned by Columbia Pacific Management, in a possible deal that could attract about $2.0B.
On Tuesday, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel stated she was not eager to take a stand on the potential merger between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, saying only the lenders could decide on their deal.
Blackstone and Advent, the US buyout funds, have entered talks with the advertising group WPP, seeking to bid for the majority stake in the data analytics company Kantar.
On Tuesday, Fiat Chrysler shares surged as much as 5.2%, after the head of the Peugeot family holding group FFP stated he would back a potential merger deal with Fiat Chrysler.
Austria's chipmaker and Apple supplier AMS agreed on joint venture for the environmental sensor business formed with the private equity firm Wise Road Capital, as the company seeks to focus on other areas of the business.
The French insurer AXA stated it would cut 40M shares in AXA Equitable Holdings by selling them via the secondary offering on the back of the company's plan to divest from its US life insurance business.
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was looking for a way to bypass the ruling of the Parliament Speaker that forbid another Brexit vote without making changes to the deal.
The Chinese property group Evergrande announced on Tuesday that it will start producing electric cars in June. The company intends to become the largest electric vehicle company.