Qatar Airways announced on Wednesday it had acquired a 5% of China Southern Airlines, seeking to receive the access to the Chinese fast-growing market.
The new Barrick Gold is exploring several options for its Acacia Mining stake, including a potential sale, as the company seeks terminating an almost two-year-long Tanzania tax dispute, which shuttered all the firm's operations in the country.
The overseas unit of the Chinese cigarette monopoly, China Tobacco International, has filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, seeking to raise about $100M.
DNO, the Norwegian oil company, has increased its stake in the British firm Faroe Petroleum to around 43%, falling short of 57.5% needed to grant it the unasailable majority shareholding.
Germany's public sector lenders Helaba and NordLB have finalised their talks over a potential merger, not reaching the agreement on a deal, Boersen-Zeitung reported this Thursday.
China's construction firm Jangho Group made a $1.2B worth bid for the Australian medical centre owner Healius Ltd, marking the mainland's potentially biggest healthcare deal in Australia.
The South Korea Nexon's founder is planning a sale of his majority stake worth about $9.0B in the gaming firm's holding company NXC Corp, according to the Korea Economic Daily.
The US drugmaker Johnson & Johnson's sales in India plunged 3% in 2017-2018, ending March, as the company was battling with the stringent pricing policies on medical devices in the country.
China's coffee start-up Luckin is planning to open 2,500 of new stores in 2019, outracing Starbucks as the biggest coffee chain by outlets number in China, the company stated on Thursday.
Apple decided to trim its quarterly sales forecasts due to the weakened sales of the iPhone models in China on the back of the US-Sino trade dispute.
On Wednesday, Tesla slashed US prices for all the carmaker's cars to offset lower its green tax credits, while falling short of its Model 3 sedan's quarterly deliveries, sending the company's shares down almost 7%.
On Wednesday, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States is demanding for the quick return of ex-US Marine arrested by Russia on spying accusations.
On Wednesday, the UK Prime Minister Theresa May plans to speak to the European Union leaders this week over Brexit.
Drug companies greeted 2019 with more than 250 prescription drugs price increased in the United States, although the measure of price increases was slower than 2018.
On Wednesday, crude oil prices increased about 4%, led by gains in US stock markets, but worries remained over rising output and global economic growth.
On Wednesday, the US President Donald Trump said that he would meet with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un soon, as his administration works toward the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
On Wednesday, the US President Donald Trump said that trade negotiations with China are coming along quite well, as he sounded upbeat about talks to end the trade war.
On Wednesday, Netflix Inc announced the appointment of Spencer Neumann as its Chief Financial Officer.
US shares regained some of its lost positions on Wednesday, as gains in bank and energy stocks led the pullback.
Hyundai Motor flagged another year of tepid growth in car sales after a slow 2018, indicating that trade protectionism added uncertainty, while the main markets such as China and the US remained sluggish.
The manufacturing sector of Mexico contracted for the second straight month in December, affected by declining business sentiment, a survey revealed.
A significant part of new car sales in Norway were related to electric cars, reaching a new record, as the country strives to end fossil-fuelled car's sales by 2025.
The EZ manufacturing activity barely grew at the end of last year in a wide slowdown, according to the survey, showing a scant sign for optimism in the begging of 2019.
Wednesday's trading session in the US started with a decline by the top stock indices. The losses ranged from 1.15% to 1.93%.