Late on Thursday, the US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, said that in order to reduce the US trade deficit with China the two countries would expand been and chicken trade, as a result of the recent trade talks between US President Trump and China's President Xi.
On Friday, the Kia Motors Corporation and the Hyundai Motor Company stated that they would have to comply with the South Korean Transport Ministry's order to recall 240,000 vehicles from the country over safety defects.
G7 finance leaders arrived in Italy for a two-day meeting to discuss the US government plans as well as international tax rules, inequality and cyber security.
China's central bank said in the statement that it injected $66.52B into country's financial system through Medium-term Lending Facility loans and kept interest rates unchanged.
White House official revealed that Donald Trump refrains naming anyone to the Fed's board for weeks, as he wants all nominees to be vetted before filling the vacancies.
The EU requires urgent talks with the United States over restriction for European countries to allow their airline passengers to take along laptops as the US sees security threats.
The French President elect Emmanuel Macron on Thursday unveiled a list of 428 candidates for June's parliamentary elections, 52% of whom were new to politics and half of whom were women.
Macy's Inc. reported a worse-than-expected slide in revenue for the Q1 falling short of analyst expectations on revenue and profits.
The CEO of Russia's Kaspersky Lab defended his company on Thursday as the heads of six US intelligence agencies testified on Capitol Hill that they have treated the company as a threat.
The President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday with the intention to tighten cyber-security of federal networks and critical infrastructure.
The FBI's acting director promised to tell the Senate Intelligence Committee of any effort to interfere with the FBI's probe into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
The US President Donald Trump called fired FBI Director James Comey a "showboat" and "grandstander" who Trump intended to fire despite of any recommendation from the Justice Department.
Netflix reported on Thursday that it would create 400 new jobs in its new Amsterdam-based customer service hub, as part of its worldwide expansion plan.
On Thursday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that Uzbekistan should avoid taking extreme actions against Islamic radicals.
The EIA reported on Thursday that natural gas inventories in the US climbed 45B cubic feet last week, down from the preceding week's 67B rise and below forecasts for a 52B gain.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to 236K in the week ending May 5, whereas analysts expected a rise to 245K from the prior week's 238K.
Producer prices in the United States surged 0.5% last month after falling 0.1% in March, while markets anticipated a rise of just 0.2%.
Prices for new houses in Canada rose 0.2% in March, following the preceding month's gain of 0.4% but meeting analysts' expectations.
The aerospace and engineering group Safran tends to complete 737 MAX aircraft engine issue as soon as in few weeks after Boeing halted its flight tests due to the glitch.
On Thursday, the Ukraine Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk announced that the country would choose and appoint one of the candidates for central bank head by September 2017.
German cyber agency rebuked Yahoo for inaction and refusal to cooperate into hacking probe on cyber attacks that compromised over 1B email service's users in a time period of 2013-2016.
The CEO of Germany's sportswear company Adidas Kasper Rorsted rejected the shareholders' calls to sell Reebok brand that yields losses as he believes a restructuring plan can restore its profitability.
The Kremlin expressed "cautious optimism" over the US-Russia relationship improvement after the President Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meeting, saying there would be a lot of work ahead.
Shares of the French aerospace group Safran were about 1% down on Thursday after Boeing announced it would halt 737 MAX aircraft's test flights amid an engine issue made by the group.