During Friday's US trading hours, commodity prices surged due to the decline of the value of the US Dollar, which was caused by worse than expected employment data.
On Friday, US stock indices started the day by reaching new all-time-high levels, as worse than expected US employment data beat down the value of the USD.
At 12:30 GMT on Friday, the USD/CAD currency exchange rate increased volatility to 40 pips during a period of ten minutes. The move was caused by US and Canadian monthly employment data.
On Friday, at 12:30 GMT, the release of US Employment data sets caused a surge of the EUR/USD of 71 base points. In addition, an all-out decline of the US Dollar was taking place.
IAG, the owner of British Airways, is expecting the travel to recover starting from July, after anticipating its capacity would only climb to 25% in the second quarter.
News Corp, the Wall Street Journal owner, reported o Thursday it had topped Wall Street's forecasts for its Q1 revenue, as its digital push boosted more subscribers for its Dow Jones division.
During Friday's European trading hours, the price for Bitcoin remained below the resistance of the 58,500.00 level, which had been holding since April 30.
Ericsson has settled a "multi-year" dispute with Samsung on the global patent licences after the row hit the Swedish telecom equipment maker's Q1 revenue.
On Friday, BMW stated it would stay the course to achieve its 2021 profit targets despite surging costs of raw materials.
Japan's Nintendo is expecting its annual sales of the Switch console to plunge 11.5%, signalling the first fall for the five-year-old device following the pandemic-driven boom in gaming.
Tencent Holdings has entered talks with the US national security panel over allowing the company to keep its investments in the US video game developers Epic Games and Riot Games.
ViacomCBS topped Wall Street's Q1 revenue forecasts, boosted by robust advertising growth and streaming revenue after the rebranded Paramount+ service launch in March.
IBM unveiled on Thursday the first 2-nanometer chip technology in the world that is deemed to be 45% faster than the 7-nanometer chips in the majority of today's phones and laptops as well as up to 75% more power-efficient.
Shift Technology, the French tech start-up, has closed on Thursday a $220M fundraising round that brought the company's valuation to more than $1.0B.
On Thursday, the world's second-biggest cryptocurrency Ether hit its new record high of as much as $3,591.65 on the Bitstamp Exchange.
Renault revealed on Thursday that the company had developed a broad strategy to make money from the Arkana model.
On Thursday, the Bank of England became the second central bank to slow down its pace of monetary stimulus, which started in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak.
Data released on Thursday revealed that worker productivity in the US had increased in the first quarter of 2021.
On Thursday, US markets were boosted by news that less than forecast new US jobless claims were received by the US government.
The CEO of Volkswagen stated on Thursday that the company would create joint ventures to fund new six battery factories in Europe.
On Thursday, US market indices started the day by trading flat, as gains were limited by US government plans to waiver intellectual property on COVID-19 vaccines.
Tesla, the US electric carmaker, announced on Thursday the development of a new platform deemed for its Chinese car owners that would let them access their vehicles' data.
On Thursday, Japan's Nintendo said it was expecting its annual sales of Switch console to drop 11.5%, signalling the five-year-old device's first decline after the gaming boom during the pandemic.
The Bank of England's MPC judged the existing monetary policy's stance to remain unchanged at 0.1%, seeking to meet the inflation target of 2%, according to an official statement.