On Friday, the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 Industrials extended their earlier gains on news of potential development in reducing trade tensions between China and the United States.
President Donald Trump said on Friday, that he asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission to study whether to stop requiring public companies to report quarterly earnings.
On Friday, Mexico's Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said that he hoped the outstanding bilateral NAFTA problems with the United States to be settled by the middle of next week.
President Donald Trump said on Friday, that the bank fraud and tax evasion trial of his ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort is unfortunate, and described him as a very good man.
The US Dollar fell against other major currencies on Friday, as demand for the safe-haven greenback decreased. Meanwhile, expectations are high between China-US trade talks scheduled for next week.
One of Turkish high court has rejected an appeal to release US pastor Andrew Brunson's from house arrest. According to Turkey's state-run news agency.
The US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Turkey's acted very badly in the detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump had to cancel the military parade scheduled for November amid high costs, saying he would head to Paris instead to commemorate the World War I end.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated she was not expecting much progress to be made over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine from her meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
The Canadian annual inflation rate surged to 3.0% in July due to price increase in all the eight components, according to the Statistics Canada's report on Friday.
Siemens has signed a framework deal worth €1.5B with Austria's railway operator OeBB for a delivery of around 700 trains during the following five years.
The Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo stated he was expecting a progress on the NAFTA issues to be reached in the nearest time.
On Friday, the United States imposed sanctions related to the human rights abuses on two Myanmar's infantry divisions and four individuals.
The US privately-owned restaurant chain CAVA has agreed on an acquisition of Zoe's Kitchen, the publicly listed peer, for about $300M including debt.
Tyson Foods is taking over Keyston Foods, the US chicken processor, from Brazil's Marfrig Global Foods in a deal valued at $2.5B.
Shares in Nordstrom, the upscale department store, jumped as much as 14% on Thursday, following its report of the better-than-expected Q2 sales growth amid an increasing number of its online buyers.
SJW Group has rebuffed the $1.45B worth acquisition deal proposed by California Water Group, its CEO stated this Friday, as it seeks to complete the takeover of Connecticut Water Service.
On Friday, shares of Air France-KLM plunged 4% due to unions' hostile reception to the firm's new director Benjamin Smith, with the Dutch pilots threatening to launch strikes amid working conditions.
Atlantia, Italy's toll-road group, is planning to hold special board meetings starting next week over the deadly collapse of the Genoa bridge the company operates, sources reported on Friday.
Oil prices fell early on Friday, as investors were concerned about slowing global economic growth and weaker currencies in emerging countries.
Eurostat reported on Friday that the annual inflation in the Euro zone reached 2.1% in July in line with the estimate, thus being above the European Central Bank's set target.
Australia's Trade Minister stated on Friday that the country sought to sign free trade deals with Hong Kong and Indonesia by this year's end.
On Friday, Turk Telekom teamed up with the local firm Vestel after the President Tayyip Erdogan had called on Turks to avoid using Apple's smartphones and switch to the domestically-made mobile devices.
The board of Russia's aluminium giant hit by sanctions Rusal has backed its domicile change from UK's Jersey to Russia, as it seeks to benefit from new special tax regulations.