South Korea and Vietnam have agreed to increase their bilateral trade by 50% during the following two years to $100B.
The Japanese car manufacturer Nissan Motor Co plans to sell 1M electric vehicles every year by 2022, thus seeing a six-fold increase from the number of units sold in 2017.
The Israeli social trading firm eToro raised $100M in private funding, bringing the total of funds raised to $162M, while the investment round had been led by China Minsheng Financial.
The President Donald Trump is seen to sign a $1.3-trillion funding bill that implies a surge in non-defence and military spending into a law, after the US Congress has approved it early on Friday.
The Japanese company Toshiba is likely to seek alternatives such as IPO, as there is a high possibility to miss the Friday deadline on winning the China's antitrust approval for selling its $18B chip unit.
On Friday, the British Prime Minister Theresa May stated that Britain and the EU bloc had made a significant progress in the Brexit talks, seeking for negotiations on future economic partnership.
The former Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn sold his 11.8% stake in the company for $2.1B in a dramatic casino and hotel enterprise exit.
China's senior diplomat Yang Jiechi is set to arrive in South Africa this week, first trip by a Chinese official after its government's reshuffle, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Regulators of Malta have frozen all the operations of Pilatus Bank, following an arrest of its chairman for the alleged US sanctions breach.
EU officials called on social networks to take care of users' privacy and guarantee personal information protection on the back of allegations that Facebook mishandled its users' data.
On Friday, the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel highlighted the possibility of implementing further punitive measures against Russia over the nerve agent attack in Salisbury.
The President of Mexico Enrique Pena Nieto defended his energy reform, saying that the rollback of it would result in a loss of billions of dollars.
Late on Thursday, the Kentucky Senate passed a bill aimed to impose limitations on abortions once the patient reaches the 11th week of pregnancy.
Samsung Electronics anticipated geopolitical risk and uncertainties from trade protectionism to persist in 2018, the company's chairman of the board stated.
The capital city of China allowed the technology giant Baidu to test the company's self-driving vehicles on streets, in a bid to bolster in the race for autonomous cars.
Japan's Statistics Bureau reported on Friday that its core CPI rose 1.0% on an annual basis in March, following the prior month's gain of 0.9% and meeting analysts' forecasts.
On Friday, the Japanese Finance Minister Taro Ayo said he would closely watch the implementation of the US President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported Chinese steel and aluminium.
Japan's Statistics Bureau reported on Friday that its core CPI rose 1.0% on an annual basis in March, following the prior month's gain of 0.9% and meeting analysts' forecasts.
The Chinese embassy in the United States stated on Thursday that China would "fight to the end" in an upcoming trade war applying "all necessary measures". The announcement came shortly after President Trump declared $60B in tariffs against China.
The Parliament of Turkey passed the bill on Thursday, which enables its television and radio regulator to start monitoring online content, including various online-streaming platforms.
The European Union managed to win a WTO appeal ruling in a dispute on Russian anti-dumping duties on Italian and German commercial vehicles.
Morgan Stanley announced plans to relocate 80 jobs based in the UK to Paris in following years after Brexit, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The US President Donald Trump is set not to apply new aluminium and steel tariffs to the EU and other six trading partners currently negotiating exemptions, Robert Lighthizer stated.
CSRA, the aim of rival proposals from CACI International Inc and General Dynamics, stated on Thursday that the company had partnered with Google cloud.