The Atlanta Fed updated its forecast for the US economy to post a 4.1% yearly increase in the second quarter, following April figures on industrial output and housing starts.
The US signed on Tuesday an updated defence accord with UAE, thus allowing Washington to relocate more troops and equipment in the given Gulf region's country.
Oil prices remained flat in Tuesday's trading session in response to OPEC members giving support for the possible extension of supply cuts until March 2018.
The US national security adviser McMaster reassured that Trump did not disclose any information that may cause a breach of national security in the meeting with Russian officials.
The Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo expects the Trump administration to inform Congress in the upcoming week of the need to renegotiate NAFTA.
Legal experts claim that businesses that suffered from the tremendous cyber-attack over the weekend may face lawsuits for the negligence to ensure proper cyber security.
The US dollar index edged lower on Tuesday in response to weaker-than-expected housing data and political uncertainty in Washington.
Lenovo Group Ltd announced on Tuesday a plan to restructure its business in order to adapt more easily to the fast-moving Chinese consumer market.
EU lenders and the IMF have not yet reached an agreement on Greece's debt relief. A possible solution is to be discussed at the next meeting of Eurozone finance ministers on 22 May.
The Conference Board Leading Economic Indicator for the United Kingdom dropped 0.2% over the month of March, data revealed on Tuesday.
United States building permits decreased 2.5% to an annualised pace of 1.23M units in April, missing economists' expectations for a 1.27M-unit rate.
Data released on Tuesday revealed US housing starts slid 2.6% to an annualised 1.17M-unit rate in April, following the downwardly revised 1.27M-unit rate registered in March.
The German ZEW Economic Sentiment Index posted a 1.1-point increase to settle at 20.6 over the course of May, missing analysts' expectations for a 22.3-points print.
Facebook added a new Snapchat-like camera tool to its Instagram app, leading in an "innovation" race with its rival as Snap's shares had already dropped 23% last week after posting its Q1 results.
Berlin's Schoenefeld airport Terminal D was evacuated on Tuesday amid a suspected outrage of tear gas. The incident hit the area that was mainly served by the Ryanair and EasyJet low cost carriers.
The President Emmanuel Macron's office stated that the official announcement of the French new government was postponed to Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Eurostat reported that Euro zone's trade surplus reached €23.1B in March, topping analysts' expectations for a €18.8B reading.
The French data watchdog fined Facebook for $166K as the social media failed to prevent advertisers from accessing the users' data.
The Russian largest web group Yandex and other well-known online firms got under the sanctions as Ukraine tends to protect itself against presumable cyber attacks.
On Tuesday, the electronic signature service DocuSign announced that its customer email database was exposed by hacks, which deemed to be connected with phishing emails addressed to the company's users.
The North Korean official stated to the UN Conference on Disarmament that its missile test launched recently was a completely legitimate self-defence act under the law of nations.
According to the official data released on Tuesday, the Canadian small business lending remained relatively unchanged in March, in comparison to February's figures.
On Tuesday, inflation in the UK in April rose to the highest level since nearly four years, edging 2.7% up, beating expectations of 2.6%, with the main reason being the weaker Pound, as a result of the last years' Brexit vote.
According to ACEA, the Europe car sales dropped 6.8% in the prior month amid a sharp decrease in Volkswagen vehicles demand and double-digit sales fall in the UK.