On Monday, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that Moscow was ready to back direct talks between sides involved in the North Korean missile crisis.
On Monday, Indonesia's Stock Exchange building was reopened for the afternoon session, following the first floor collapse that injured dozens of people and caused the building evacuation.
North Korea requested talks over the next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea to be held on January 2017, offering the demilitarised zone on the South's side as a meeting point.
Volkswagen brand car sales jumped to a record high of 6.23M in 2017 on the back of a strong demand in Americas and China, which managed to offset a drop in Western Europe.
Ravi Menon, the Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, said he hoped that technologies supporting cryptocurrencies would survive an eventual digital money crash.
The US President Donald Trump has denied remarks in a newspaper in which he was quoted as saying he presumably had a "very good relationship" with Kim Jong Un.
The chairman of Ford said the company was planning to increase its investments in EVs to $11B and have 40 electrified vehicles by 2022.
Volkswagen is likely to spend more than $3.3B on production and development of its new models in the United States from 2018 to 2020 years.
SoftBank Group is set to list the company's mobile phone business to raise $18B, completing transformation into world's technology investor, the Nikkei said.
Official data released on Monday showed that Japan's M2 money stock rose 3.5% year-over-year last month, missing analysts' expectations for a gain of 4.0%.
The Melbourne Institute reported on Monday that its gauge of inflation climbed 0.1% in December, after rising 0.2% in the prior month.
The President of France and the Chancellor of Germany are speculated to be preparing for a clash with the President of the US at the economic forum next week due to competing world views.
The World Economic Forums is scheduled to take place next week at Davos. The event is most likely to take most of the attention of the political and financial world, as even Donald Trump is planning to attend.
The Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel is planning to join the French President Emmanuel Macron in Davos at the World Economic Forum.
The President of France Emmanuel Macron is speculated to have approved the still unpublished document, which has recommendations for a Euro Zone reform.
Leading French and German economists are scheduled to publish new recommendations, which are aimed at reforming the euro zone.
As Angela Merkel has made a deal with the German Social Democrats, the leader of Germany has sent her representative to make an alliance with French EU reformists.
The spokesman of the President of Turkey on Sunday officially denounced the US efforts to train Syrian border security forces. The outrage is due to some of the forces being Kurdish YPG fighters.
The Prime Minister of Iraq is set to receive support in the next election from a powerful Shi'ite group, which has close ties with Iran.
Authorities of Pakistan have revealed that the country will try to privatize the national airline before the next general elections, which are due this year.
The head of the Iraqi government Haider al-Abadi on Sunday announced plans to candidate in the next elections. The elections are set to take place on May 12.
Oil production in Venezuela has almost reached 1.9 million barrels per day. This is seen as a recovery after the record low level of last year.
By starting the creation of a new Syrian border force, the US lead coalition has managed to anger Turkish officials, which have expressed dissatisfaction with the coalition efforts.
The Iranian tanker, which was burning in the East China Sea since January 6, sank on Sunday.