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.
Alphabet's Google announced its plans to open the first physical store based in New York City as soon as this summer, adding the store would be located in Chelsea and be a part of the company's campus in that neighbourhood.
Shell New Energies and Daimler Truck announced on Thursday that they had closed a deal that would have Shell set up hydrogen stations for Daimler Truck.
On Thursday, the CEO of Morgan Stanley James Gorman changed the leadership of the bank in an effort to look for his future replacement.
JPMorgan Chase has launched a new healthcare-focused unit for its employees, a couple of months after that bank's similar venture with Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon.com was disbanded.
The US department store operator Kohl's stated on Thursday that the company would raise its 2021 earnings forecast due to an expected shopping boom.
On Thursday, Tencent announced that the company's first quarter profits increased by 65% due to a surge in online gaming revenues.
Data released on Thursday revealed that US weekly jobless claims had continued to decline during the prior week, as less than 500,000 claims were filed.
At the start of Thursday's US trading hours, US stock indices started the day at a higher level than the previous close. The surge was attributed to better than forecast labour data.
Ralph Lauren forecast on Thursday its full-year sales to miss analysts' expectations due to a hit from store shutdowns in Japan and some parts of Europe amid COVID-19 curbs, despite surging demand in the United States and China.
On Thursday, the organisers of Barcelona's Mobile World Congress announced the telecoms industry's largest annual gathering would take place as planned following Spanish authorities' approval of the safety and health plan.
Apple made over $100M in commissions from the Epic Games-developer video game "Fortnite" during the last two years it was available on Apple's App Store.
On Thursday, Tencent Holdings, China's social media and gaming giant, reported its quarterly profit surged as much as 65%, beating the forecasts, boosted by a rise in the number of its video games users globally.
During Thursday's European trading hours, stock indices around the world recovered after the previously suffered losses.
Ford Motor and South Korea's battery manufacturer SK Innovation are planning to announce the US electric vehicle battery joint venture, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, is set to step down from his chief executive role and will be replaced by Liang Rubo, the human resource chief, the company revealed on Thursday.
Cisco Systems is expecting its current-quarter profit to miss forecasts, anticipating the economy reopening will cool the pandemic-driven demand for its teleconferencing and networking tools, sending the firm's shares down 5%.
Target Corp reported its quarterly sales surged around 23% and forecast booming demand through 2021, as consumers return to stores after a year of the pandemic-caused restrictions.