The International Monetary Fund stated that the board approved a credit facility of $3.7B for Angola to support its economic reforms.
According to Interfax, the Russian conglomerate Sistema could think over cutting dividends at the MTS unit, in case it needs funds for covering a potential fallout from the US inquiry into the mobile phone operator's Uzbek business.
Britain's mobile operator O2 is planning to compensate its clients with phone credit, after software outage led to the loss of internet connection on its users' phones on Thursday.
The senior Vice-President of Nissan Motor claimed that his company is considering the request of its French partner Renault and is planning to share the details of investigation regarding the arrest of Nissan Motor's manager Carlos Ghosn.
On Saturday, the prosecutors of Canada claimed that the Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Meng Wanzhou has been avoiding traveling to the US since the spring 2017 after detecting an investigation on her.
On Saturday, the US President Donald Trump announced that John Kelly, White House's Chief of Staff, would leave his position at this year's end.
Julius Baer, the Swiss private bank, has entered talks with Banco Santander over transferring its Venezuela business book to the Spanish bank amid reorganisation of Baer's operations in Latin America.
Germany's car parts producer Continental is thinking over acquisitions of software makers after its Powertrain unit initial public offering, scheduled for the next year's second half, the company's CEO Wolfgang Schaefer announced on Saturday.
JSW, the European biggest coking coal producer, is seeking to raise its output by 2.5M-3M tonnes a year by acquisitions, which is far more than its current strategy to increase production growth to 18M tonnes by 2030.
The new leader of the German Christian Democrat party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Saturday attempted to bind the party together by promoting a rival.
During the weekend the President of Iran made another statement in regards to the US sanctions on Iran. Namely, the President announced that a deluge of refugees, attacks and drugs is bound for the West unless the sanctions are cancelled.
A top negotiator of the Iran aligned Houthi group in Yemen announced that the main port of the country should be made into a neutral zone under the supervision of the UN.
On Saturday, the Work and Pensions Secretary of the United Kingdom Amber Rudd floated the Brexit Plan B, which has been developed by Theresa May's cabinet.
During 2018 global bond and equity markets traded with high volatility, with no asset class providing a return of at least five percent, causing losses to fund managers. Although, managers surveyed by Reuters revealed on Saturday that they expect a rally in 2019.
On Saturday, BMW named Alejandro Vukovitch as the new head of the BMW's self-driving car department. He will assume his post in January 2019.
The Supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the country's central bank to adopt measures to raise the value of national currency, the Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati stated on Saturday.
On Saturday, the China's Foreign Ministry urged Canadian authorities to free Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in order to avoid serious consequences.
The President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa stated on Saturday that the new minimum wage amounting to 3.5$ per hour or 247$ per month would take effect from 1 January.
On Saturday, thousands of Hungarians went to the streets of Budapest to protest against draft law, which presupposes that employers could ask employees to do overtime work up to 400 hours per year.
The Germany's EVG leader Torsten Westphal stated on Saturday that rail workers would conduct a number of strikes during the Christmas holidays amid failure of negotiations with rail operator Deutsche Bahn.
The President of United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan ruled on Saturday that women must represent half of its Advisory Council.
According to Chinese customs data, exports in November rose by 5.4% on a year-to-year basis only, thus showing falling both domestic and international demand.
The UK Work and Pensions Minister Amber Rudd stated on Saturday that Theresa May's Brexit deal was the most acceptable option, yet there might be a need for plan B.
Akorn's Chief Executive Officer Raj Rai is planning to retire after the drugmaker failed to salvage its merger deal with the German company Fresenius, Akorn announced late on Friday.