France's telecoms group Orange is exploring a bid for its Spanish rival Euskaltel, a potential deal that could consolidate firm's market position as the second-largest in Spain.
Asia's top refiner Sinopec might experience difficulties in selling a multi-billion-dollar IPO of its fuel marketing unit as investors are pushing back against arm's higher valuation due to tepid equity markets.
Netflix reported its Q1 revenue forecast slightly below Wall Street's expectations, despite hitting a record-high number in new customers, sending its shares down 4% in after-hours trading.
The French carmaker Renault is targeting a slight growth in sales this year, after posting a 3.2% rise in its 2018 vehicle sales, driven by a new China joint venture, and revived demand in Latin America and Russia.
Maoyan Entertainment, the Tencent-backed China film ticketing platform has launched an initial public offering in Hong Kong on Friday, seeking to attract up to $345M.
Schlumberger has won more than $200M worth contract to manage the oil major Equinor's offshore rig project, as part of the drilling programme in the Campos basin.
On Thursday, Fitch Ratings stated the planned bankruptcy of the US power company PG&E would not affect California's credit quality.
Eddie Lampert, the Sears Holdings chairman, won the bankruptcy auction to acquire the US retailer after offering an improved bid worth $5.2B; however, the company's creditors oppose the deal.
Nissan Motor's US arm stated that it plans to lay off nearly 700 contract employees at the company's Mississippi assembly plant, citing slowing sales of Titan pickup trucks and vans.
Netflix stated that it added 8.84M paid global subscribers in the Q4, while analysts anticipated 9.18M increase in net global streaming additions.
To help to eliminate the plastic waste, three main Japanese chemical firms that they are set to offer about $92M to a new international fund.
The arms exports' total value approved by Germany's government dropped 22.7% in 2018, the Ministry of Economic Affairs stated.
Euro zone's consumer prices remained flat last month, while the yearly rate of inflation dropped from 1.9% to 1.6% in the month of November, according to the revised estimate.
The US consumers this month were the most pessimistic over the economy since November 2016, the third drop in succession after expectations to the 16-year high three months earlier, due to the partial government shutdown.
Lenders in the UK anticipated demand for credit cards lending and mortgages to fall markedly in several years, adding to signs of a weaker economic growth before Brexit.
Archers Daniels Midland, the US agribusiness group, is set to buy the rest of 50% stake in the UK grain merchant Gleadell from his current partner InVivo, taking the full control of the company.
General Atlantic, the US investment company, is acquiring a minority stake of the German powercloud GmbH and is ready to back the energy software firm in its efforts to expand into other markets.
The largest lender of Saudi Arabia, National Commercial Bank, is eager to hire JPMorgan as an adviser to the merger talks with its smaller competitor Riyad Bank, sources reported.
On Thursday, the Israeli mobile games firm Playtika stated it had taken over Austria's card games company Supertreat GmbH, only a month after it had acquired Wooga GmbH, the German puzzle developer, as Playtika sought more expansion into casual games.
Bank of China is set to pay a $1.0B loan before the Q1-end, the central bank's chief announced on Thursday, as it seeks helping the country meet the repayments during next months.
Saudi Aramco hired Riyad Bank and Japan's SMBC as advisers to its Amiral petrochemical project financing that the company is planning to develop with the French oil and gas firm Total.
Jet Airway's creditors are currently weighing the restructuring plan to resolve the carrier's debt issues, SBI stated on Thursday, due to reports its shareholders are set to resolve their differences.
The number of applications for US unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly to 213K in the week ending January 12 from the preceding 216K reading, and missing analysts' expectations for a rise to 219K.
China's economic growth is likely to slow to 6.3% in 2019 due to weakening domestic demand, as well as exports that are hit by the US sanctions, according to Reuters poll published on Thursday.