On Friday, the cryptocurrency market significantly plunged with Bitcoin sliding below $7900, which is the biggest weekly loss for Bitcoin since the first week of December 2013.
The British Business Bank is likely to provide nearly £100M worth lending to small companies and workers hit by liquidation of Carilion.
The outgoing Fed Chair Janet Yellen stated that strong economic expansion, tightening job market and pay growth mean that the Fed would need to keep raising rates gradually.
The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau revealed a tough line over NAFTA, repeating that the country could quit, if it is not satisfied with talks on changes.
Angela Merkel's conservative party and the Social Democrats made the main progress in negotiations over forming a coalition, but were still at odds concerning labour rules.
K.T. McFarland asked the US President Donald Trump on Friday to withdraw her nomination as the US ambassador to Singapore amid the uncertainly expressed by the Congress after her testimony over communications with Russia's representatives.
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned its southern neighbour on Friday that Russia might try to interfere into its presidential election that will take place in July.
The S&P500 and Dow Jones indices ended lower on Friday amid a series of week earning reports as well as the robust US employment data, thus approaching to their largest one-week plunge in two years.
The Trump administration said on Friday it is ready to work with congressmen in order to decide whether Democrats' memo written for the House Intelligence Committee could be disclosed.
In the process of electoral race, the Italian ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD) promised to raise pensions, help families and introduce a minimum wage.
In a statement made on Friday, Booz Allen Hamilton said it won a $621M contract that presupposes development and implementation of cybersecurity tools across the US government.
In a decision made on Friday, the US President Donald Trump ordered to publish a classified memo prepared by Republicans that claims biased attitude against him at the Justice Department and FBI.
In a letter to the United Nations, the Foreign Minister of North Korea Ri Yong Ho warned that if the US decides to conduct delayed drills with South Korea after the Olympic Games it will not "sit idle".
The Commerce Department stated that new orders for goods made in the US grew 1.7% in December, posting a fifth straight monthly rise.
The US President Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe discussed an extended missile defence system and other efforts to strengthen Japan's defences.
The Markit/CIPS stated that the UK construction PMI decreased to 50.2 in January, as Brexit uncertainties caused a dry up in new orders.
The US job growth accelerated in January, while wages revealed the strongest annual gain since 2009, fuelling expectations that inflation would rise to the Fed's target this year.
On Thursday, shares in Guess plummeted more than 17%, after a model Kate Upton had tweeted about company's executive accusing him of sexual harassment toward women.
Brazil's planemaker Embraer had accepted Boeing's offer to form a commercial jet joint venture, not involving Embraer's military division, Globo TV reported on Friday.
On Friday, German car plants were stalled amid the third day of the 24-hour strikes that focused on factories owned by Porsche, BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz.
On Friday, the former Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov's daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva resigned as the Uzbek UNESCO representative, seeking to focus on her personal projects in education and charity.
One of the Apple main suppliers Hon Hai that is also known as Foxconn is planning to invest $342M in artificial intelligence and industrial Internet's related spheres.
The Defence Ministry of Slovakia is in talks to purchase either Swedish Gripen or American F-16s fighter jets as it seeks replacing its Russian-made aging MiG-29s.
On Friday, the German carmaker Daimler stated that it was open to broader alliances or partial listings of the company's mobility services operations that also include car sharing.