Amazon said that it is set to discontinue providing its Fresh delivery services in the selected cities, but the company continues to operate in a dozen other areas.
Starbucks announced that the company trimmed its profit forecasts and posted weak quarterly sales, after being squeezed by competitors, including low-price McDonald's.
Chinese services PMI picked up slightly to 51.2 points in October, indicating the subdued growth in new orders and weaker activity in the reported period.
The Australian Bureau of Statistic said that the country's retail sales were unchanged in September, as consumers curbed spending due to high utility bills and stagnant pay growth.
The US House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday that the Republican tax plan was set to create a better climate for the country's businesses.
On Thursday, the President of Iceland asked the Left-Green Movement leader Katrín Jakobsdóttir to form a new parliament.
According to the data released by the US Energy Information Administration, the domestic natural gas supply increased by 65B cubic feet in the week ended October 27.
The US Bureau of Labour Statistics said unit labour costs in the non-farm business sector were up 0.5% in the third quarter of 2017, matching analysts' forecasts.
The Labour Department stated that the US nonfarm productivity accelerated gains at 3.0% yearly rate, the fastest pace in three years, while overall growth trend remained moderate.
Audi is likely to recall 5K diesel cars in Europe to fix an emissions control software, as the company discovered the cars emitted too much of nitrogen oxide.
TripAdvisor is expected to offer food delivery in nine EU countries under the companies' deal with Takeaway.com, the Dutch online food delivery firm.
The Bank of England made an key interest rate hike to 0.50% from 0.25%, suggesting further increases to be gradual, mainly driven by the outcome of Brexit talks.
Alibaba delivered outstanding Q3 results on Thursday, beating the forecasts with a 61% revenue jump, driven by the continuing e-commerce growth.
The number of applications for US unemployment benefits fell 5K to 229K in the week ending October 28, missing expectations for a 235K surge.
The number of asylum seekers in Germany surged 113% to 1.6M in the past two years, with most refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
Shell posted a forecast-beating 47% jump to $4.1B in its Q3 profit on Thursday, boosted by gains in oil refining and trading operations.
The CEO of Credit Suisse Tidjane Thiam said on Thursday that that the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin presented challenges to banks, especially in terms of anti-money laundering.
The digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $7000 on Thursday, thus increasing its value seven times since the beginning of 2017.
The Finance Minister of China Xiao Jie is likely to resign from his post over the following months, following the promotion to the senior Communist Party job.
The number of unemployed Germans fell 11K in September, exceeding analysts' expectations for a 10K drop, and compared to the prior month's downwardly revised fall of 22K.
According to the TASS news outlet, Turkey has bought the advance S-400 air defence missile systems from Russia for more than $2B, raising concerns in the United States.
SoftBank announced on Thursday it had secured a $23.3B top loan deal to refinance the acquisition loans for the UK chip designer ARM and US telecommunication firm Sprint.
On Thursday, Etihad Airways announced that it would end the Dallas-Fort Worth route the next year, following American Airlines' decision to halt a codeshare deal between the two carriers.
Samsung Electronics named Roh Hee-chan as the company's new Chief Financial Officer to replace the ex-CFO Lee Sang-hoon, putting Roh in charge of a $68B corporate cash pile.