Toyota Motor was recalling more than 1M Prius and C-HR compact crossover hybrid vehicles, from which 554K were to be recalled in Japan and 192K in the US, due to fire risk.
Pricing practices within the foreign-exchange unit of American Express was being probed by the FBI on pricing practices, sources familiar with the matter stated.
The UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline stated that it would cut nearly 650 jobs in the United States within a global restructuring program, which was announced in July.
Uber Technologies was on track for initial public offering next year and revealed no plans to sell the company's self-driving car research unit, Dara Khosrowshahi, the Chief Executive, stated.
Facebook stated on Thursday that it is set to build the first data centre in Asia in the country of Singapore, making more than $1B of investments.
The Finnish economy is likely to slow down in the next few years due to the weak performance of the global economy, shows data published by the Nordea Bank.
There are no signs of debt crisis in African countries, the president of the African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina says.
The construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline kicked off in the Gulf of Finland on Wednesday, the project operator Nord Stream 2 AG says.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plan to discuss the situation in Syria on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asks the people of Mauritania for the peaceful conduct of elections in their country.
The members of the United Nations Security Council support the UN-led political process in Yemen, the statement released on Wednesday shows.
The State Councilor and Minister of National Defence Wei Fenghe met with Singapore's Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Melvyn Ong to discuss military cooperation between two countries.
The Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe met with the senior Communist Party of China official Wang Huning after the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
On Wednesday, Shinhan Financial Group announced it would acquire a 59.15% stake in its former South Korean unit Orange Life Insurance in a $2.06B deal.
Citi has won a tender to acquire the rest of the Israeli government 5.37% stake in the country's second biggest bank Leumi, according to the Finance Ministry report on Tuesday.
SS&C Technologies Holdings, the financial software company, is getting closer to a deal to acquire the data-sharing platform Intralinks, in its third significant takeover this year.
The US gambling unit of the betting firm William Hill has clinched a joint venture deal with Eldorado Resorts, the US casino operator, as the UK company seeks further expansion in the US market.
Suzuki Motor is planning to transfer its 50% stake in China's automaking JV to Chongquing Changan Automobile as poor sales prompt the company to retreat from the market.
Jianke Pharmaceuticals, China's online pharmacy, stated on Tuesday it had raised $130M in a private funding round ahead of the planned IPO in the United States in 2019.
On Tuesday, the Getty family stated it would buy Carlyle Group's controlling stake in Getty Images, terminating 10 years of the private equity control.
On Tuesday, Transocean, the offshore oil driller, is set to acquire Ocean Rig peer in a $2.7B cash-deal, seeking to recover in the offshore sector.
Hesperia, the Spanish hotel group, hired JPMorgan as an adviser on the options for its 8% stake in the local peer NH Hoteles, sources reported on Tuesday.
Southwestern Energy, the gas and oil producer, is set to sell its shale assets of Fayetteville in Arkansas to the privately-held Flywheel Energy LLC for $1.87B.
Poland's Alior and Portugal's Millennium are bidding to acquire Societe Generale's Polish business Eurobank, according to banking sources familiar with the matter.