Canada's retail sales increased 1.8% in the first three months of 2021, data published by the Statistics Canada show.
Eurozone business growth accelerated in May at the fastest pace in three years, a survey conducted by Markit, a financial information company, shows.
The International Monetary Fund wants to spend $50B to ensure a quicker rollout of vaccines against COVID-19 as only about 9.5% of the global population has been vaccinated.
The UK plans to propose Australia a trade agreement that will eliminate quotas and tariffs over the next 15 years, the BBC reports.
The Eurozone's business growth expedited at its strongest pace in more than three years in May, but the ECB President said that unclear recovery still needed support from the ECB.
Snap announced on Friday that it will buy WaveOptics, the augmented reality technology company based in Britain, for over $500M.
Elon Musk said stated that Tesla was considering establishing its presence in Russia and was looking at whether it could open factories there in the country.
The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales declined 2.7% to a seasonally adjusted yearly rate of 5.85M units last month, the lowest level since last year's June.
The IHS Markit report showed that the US Manufacturing PMI increased to 61.5 in the first half of May to the highest level since 2009 amid solid domestic demand.
On Friday, Snap Inc announced it would acquire the UK augmented reality technology firm WaveOptics in a deal worth more than $500 million.
Daimler Truck's CEO Martin Daum stated on Friday that he expected further job losses in the coming 15 years at the European truck engine factories due to the transition to "green" trucks.
US stock indices started Friday's US trading with a gap up, as a previously started recovery was extended.
During Friday's US trading hours, the stock price of Nvidia surged by 3.77%. The move was attributed to the company announcing a 4-for-1 stock split.
Elon Musk is considering to establish Tesla's presence in Russia, including the potential building of factories there.
On Friday, SoftBank Group announced that Ron Fisher, the long-time lieutenant of the Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son, and the the chip designer Arm's CEO Simon Segars are set to leave the conglomerate's board.
China's Huawei Technologies has plans to expand the smart vehicle partnership with Chongqing Changan Automobile, with the expansion to include the development and design of the semiconductor chips.
On Friday, the Chinese internet watchdog stated that tech giants including Baidu, ByteDance and Microsoft had collected their user data improperly.
JD Logistics is eager to price its stock at $5.20 (HK$40.36), marking its indicated range's lower end, to attract $3.16B in its initial public offering in Hong Kong.
Morgan Stanley has announced changes in its leadership, as it started to look for a new successor for the current CEO James Gorman.
Indonesian antitrust agency intends to scrutinise the Gojek-Tokopedia merger deal worth billions of dollars, seeking to avoid monopoly in the tech industry.
On Friday, at 06:00 GMT the United Kingdom Retail Sales data was released. The country's retail sales had increased by 9.2% instead of the market forecast 4.5%.
On Friday, Reuters released a report on how various developing countries would battle inflation of oil, food and other goods.
London Stock Exchange Group and Thomson Reuters were in talks over their deal on news content distribution, following their dispute about the Reuters News website paywall.
Josh Harris, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, hands over his day-to-day role by stepping down as the private equity giant's managing director upon completion of its deal with Athene Holding.