Oil prices continued to increase on Wednesday and were about to reach a six week high level. Some media outlets mentioned possible Middle East supply disruptions as the reason.
On Tuesday, the US Senator Dianne Feinstein called on the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the US Congress over the user data treatment on his social media platform.
FedEx is willing to scan every parcel at its Texas facilities, after one of the packages had exploded on Tuesday, the fifth such an incident in Texas in 18 days.
On Wednesday, Caixin reported that China had appointed Geo Shuqing as a new leader of the recently formed regulator for the insurance and banking sectors.
According to Spotify Technology, the company's CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek has rights to sell around 15.8M shares of the streaming music leader worth up to $2B in its public listing.
Russia's nuclear company Rosatom is planning to start the Turkish Akkuyu plant in 2023, saying that negotiations with potential investors would not affect the construction timetable.
On Wednesday, Chinese automaker Geely Automobile stated its net profit more than doubled in the previous year, boosted by solid domestic sales of the carmaker's popular SUVs.
The Central Bank of Brazil is set to trim interest rates to a new low once again this Wednesday, as the country's inflation underwhelms, derailing its plans to stop monetary easing.
Alphabet's Google has acquired the New York's Chelsea Market for $2.4B on Tuesday; a deal that should expand its presence in the NYC tech campus along the Hudson River.
Htin Kyaw, the President of Myanmar, has resigned. The officially announced reason is to have rest from current duties.
The opening of the data center in Switzerland by Kaspersky has been confirmed to be part of a plan to decrease the concerns that Russian government exploits the company's antivirus for spying.
The Luxury coat producer Canada Goose is preparing to move more of its production in-house to boost the company's profit margins.
The President of South Korea Moon Jae-in stated that a three-way summit with the US and North Korea is possible and should be aimed to cease the nuclear threat.
The European Commission is set to propose regulations designed to make big digital companies pay the share of tax, targeting the US majors such as Facebook and Google.
The RBNZ reported that credit card spending rose 0.7% on an annual basis in February, following the prior month's increase of 4.6%.
The Melbourne Institute reported on Wednesday that its Leading Index for the national economy rose 0.3% in February, after dropping 0.3% in the preceding month.
US Senate and House aides are set to be briefed by Facebook representatives on Wednesday, congressional representatives reported.
As Tuesday's trading session ended, the stock of Facebook Inc. had booked a 2.5% decline.
Government lawyers, who are reviewing the Time Warner and AT&T acquisition deal, have revealed that the main argument against the deal is that AT&T would raise consumer prices.
The top Democrat of the Judiciary Committee of the US Senate Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday announced that Mark Zuckerberg should be called in to testify before Congress.
European Union officials recently revealed that there are still large obstacles in the talks to establish the EU and South American trade union Mercosur.
Toyota Motors on Tuesday announced that the company will stop self-driving car tests. The announcement came after an accident occurred during a test in Arizona.
The shares of Facebook Inc. continued to fall in Tuesday's trading as the markets where selling the stock due to the caused outcry about the breach of the company's data policies.
Representatives of Salesforce.com Inc. have begun advance talks with the software company MuleSoft Inc. about a possible acquisition.