Japan is eager to present its package to Donald Trump on providing the US with 700K workplaces and creating a $450B market.
Travis Kalanick, Uber CEO, quit the US President's business advisory group as employees and activists, who oppose new immigration policies, had put pressure on him.
On Friday, the US President's defense secretary cautioned North Korea of response in case it used nuclear weapons, adding that South Korea could receive support from the US.
Apple Inc. is planning to begin manufacturing iPhones in India in three months. Apple's desire to open a hub in India was aroused by the "Made in India" policy.
Ralph Lauren Corp. said that CEO Stefan Larsson is leaving in three months. Shares of the company fell 11% to $77.50 apiece after the announcement.
The US car giant Ford reported that companies' vehicle demand in South Africa is active despite their Kuga SUVs self-ignition fiasco.
Low-cost airline Tigerair has cancelled all its flights between Australia and Bali after Indonesian authorities obliged the company to transfer to a new operating model.
An Iranian refugee who fled to Fiji from Papua New Guinea using false documents to seek asylum was deported back to PNG.
Amazon's shares slid more than 4% to $803.45 apiece after the company announced revenue for the Q4 of 2016 that missed analysts' expectations.
Swatch Group is expecting a return to "healthy growth" for 2017 after net profit slumped 47% to 593M Swiss francs in 2016.
As Spanish crops were hit by flooding and cold weather, the UK Tesco and Morrisons decided to introduce buying limits to avoid running out of certain products.
The country's Environment and Natural Resources department ordered the closure of mines that were found to contaminate watersheds. The decision is said to affect 1.2M people.
On its first post-holiday working day the country's central bank raised the seven-, 14- and 28-day repo rates by 10 basis points and reportedly increased the SLF rate to 3.1%.
In its filing Snap sought to raise $3B, but cautioned that it expected to continue to post operating losses and that majority of voting stock would remain with its co-founders.
On Thursday, the US stocks closed lower and the US Dollar index partially recovered from its two-month low, amid President Trump's comments about replacing the NAFTA.
Due to Iran's recent ballistic missile test, the US is anticipated to sanction several Iranian entities by Saturday without violating the 2015 nuclear deal, an anonymous source reported on Thursday.
Scottish parliament decided to vote on the Article 50 triggering that would formally launch the process of Brexit, even if the vote is not required.
The US President Donald Trump revealed a desire to speed up talks for a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada.
Eleven people died in four separate air strikes by the US-led coalition fighting against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between October 25 and December 9.
A Romanian minister resigned after hundreds of thousands of anti-corruption demonstrators took to the streets in the biggest mass protest in Romania since the fall of communism.
The South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics is about to build a plant for consumer appliances in the US as a response to Donald Trump's imports reproval.
Nokia posted strong quarterly results showing its profits declined less than analysts expected due to Alcatel-Lucent purchase and expense curb.
On Thursday, prices for oil edged up, amid news of OPEC cutting production outweighing an increase in US crude stocks.
On Thursday, due to a a swiftly adopted government order in Romania that could amnesty a number of officials accused of corruption, led to the country's largest protest since 1989, causing Florin Jianu, minister of business, to resign.