The main seaport of Iraq reopened during the night between Friday and Saturday after being closed down due to protesters blocking the entrance.
Indonesian online payments and ride-hailing company Go-Jek announced plans to invest in Kumparan, which is an online media start up.
On Friday, the United States recalled their diplomats from Dominican Republic, Panama and El Salvador because these countries no longer acknowledge Taiwan as a sovereign country.
On Friday, a report published by Reuters stated that the revenue growth of the S&P 500 companies is the fastest since 2011.
The share price of Tesla Inc dropped by almost nine percent, as the company's Chief Accounting Officer quit after being in the positions only for a month.
On Saturday, the government of China sent its top diplomats to Pakistan for a high level meeting with Pakistan's new Prime Minister.
On Friday, Amazon.com Inc claimed that it is planning to open a second check-out free Amazon Go store in New York after opening the first store from the chain in Seattle in 2018.
On Friday, the New York Times reported that a co-founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Jack Ma is planning to resign on Monday to focus on philanthropy.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump claimed that Japan and US have started negotiations over the new trade agreement between two states, underlying the importance of the trade deal for Tokyo.
On Friday, Apple Inc told the US trade officials that a wide range of Apple products, including Apple Watch, would be hit by a new set of proposed US tariffs on goods from China.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump said that he is ready to sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller about Russian collusion with his election campaign under certain conditions.
On Friday, the US Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said that battling with China on trade is the right fight.
On Friday, Barnes and Noble Inc shares surged by 21% after investor Richard Schottenfeld said that he had discussed a potential sale of the company with its founder.
On Friday, Tesla Inc said its Chief Accounting Officer Dave Morton has resigned after a month stint.
On Friday, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones edged lower after the US President Donald Trump threatens further tariffs worth of $267 billion on Chinese imports.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump said that the United States and Japan had started talks on trade.
Valdis Dombrovskis, the Vice President of the European Commission, stated that Italy understood that it should cut the structural deficit and reduce public debt in the country's 2019 budget, after talks with the Finance Minister Giovanni Tria.
The United States should deploy tools to tackle banks' excessive risk-taking and unwise mortgage lending, following the example of the Bank of England, Donald Kohn , the former Fed Vice Chairman, stated.
Benoit Coeure, the ECB Board Member, stated that Europe needs an agency to combat money laundering, following cases at the EU banks, which exposed gaps in the ability of the bloc to prevent financial crime.
Executives of ExxonMobil and China's officials discussed a $10B investment by the US-based company in the province of Guangdong, China's state TV report showed.
The US Labor Department's employment report revealed that wages marked the largest yearly gain in the nine-year period of 2.9% in the month of August.
The US Labour Department reported that the country's non-farm payrolls added 201K in August, fulled by hiring at wholesalers, professional and business services and construction sites.
Third Point, the hedge fund of the activist investor Daniel Loeb stated on Friday it was looking at replacing Campbell Soup's entire board, already nominating a slate of new directors.
Assicurazioni Generali, the Italian largest insurer, stated it had been in talks to acquire the majority of France's investment company Sycomore and form a partnership.