On Tuesday, BP and ConocoPhillips agreed to swap their assets with the UK oil giant to raise its stake in North Sea development and the US peer to grow in Alaska.
Britain's shop prices declined less in June than in May, though shoppers could take some solace from that inflation of food prices did not accelerate, a survey revealed on Wednesday.
Uber Technologies was in talks with its rival Careem to combine ride-hailing services in the Middle East, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Chile's President Sebastian Pinera stated that he intends to meet with the CEOs of Alphabet and Amazon.com next week to enlist their support for helping the country to make technological progress.
Samsung Electronics is expected to report the smallest growth in profit in more than a year in the Q2r, as lacklustre premium Galaxy smartphones sales overshadow highly profitable chip business.
On Tuesday, the major trading partners of the US including China, Japan and EU expressed their concern at the World Trade Organisation about US tariff measures against imported parts and cars.
On Tuesday, the newly elected President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claimed that the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to visit Mexico in the nearest time.
On Tuesday, the leader of German Social Democrats Andrea Nahles claimed that German governing coalition was making a significant progress in talks regarding establishing refugee migration centres.
On Tuesday, top US carmakers Ford Co, General Motors Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV reported about stronger sales of cars in the US in June, especially SUVs and trucks.
On Tuesday, French carmaker PSA issued a statement that it is planning to launch a car-sharing service in the French capital of Paris together with Renault to replace car sharing service Autolib.
On Tuesday, a head of retail industry lobby group FoodDrinkEurope, Mella Frewen, claimed that a new strategic alliance between Tesco and Carrefour would help to expand the companies' own-label ranges.
On Tuesday, one of the European officials claimed that China had put pressure on the EU to sign a common pact against the US President Trump's trade policy.
On Tuesday, Google Cloud claimed that its Chief Operations Officer Diane Bryant, who previously was a head of Intel's data centre's unit, is leaving Alphabet Inc as Intel is looking for a new possible CEO.
LafargeHolcim has acquired the US ready mix concrete producer Tarrant amid the world's largest cement maker's intention to boost growth by smaller acquisitions under the CEO Jan Jenisch, the Swiss company stated on Tuesday.
Shares in Elon Musk's Tesla dropped in Monday's volatile trading after the carmaker reported it had hit its production milestone for the Model 3 vehicles, making investors to pocket some profits.
On Tuesday, the Hyundai Motor stated it had invested an undisclosed amount of money into the Israeli auto technology firm Autotalks to boost the development of the future chipset for connected vehicles.
On Tuesday, Facebook's shares slipped over 1% in the premarket trade, following a news report that a federal investigation over the data breach by Cambridge Analytica had been broadened and would involve more government's agencies.
On Tuesday, IHH Healthcare submitted a revised binding bid for Fortis Healthcare India's hospital chain, media reports stated.
Petroleo Brasileiro, the Brazilian state-run oil firm, announced on Tuesday it had to suspend its asset sales, as the Supreme Court had ruled out the necessity for the privatisation processes to be accepted by the Congress.
On Monday, the campaign launched by the New York City's Lyft and Uber drivers over their pay rise got a boost from a study led by two economists, who had conducted for the city's Limousine Commission and Taxi.
Israeli firm ThetaRay has attracted more than $30M in its fundraising round, bringing its total amount of funds raised to over $60M to continue preventing money laundering.
Sirtex Medical, the liver cancer treatment producer, has been granted an approval by the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board doe its $1.4B buyout by the Chinese consortium.
On Monday, the Austrian property firm Immofinanz has agreed to sell its 26% stake in CA Immo in a deal valued at $882M to the US investor Starwood.
On Tuesday, shares in ZTE Corp surged to the daily maximum of 10% in the afternoon trading in Shenzhen, with no reason figured out yet.