The US industrial and aerospace company United Technologies Corp gained EU antitrust approval for its $23B bid for Rockwell Collins, the avionics maker.
China posted a $28.2B current account deficit in the March quarter of 2018, the country's FX regulator stated in the prelimnary report.
Retail sales in the Euro Zone grew less than anticipated 0.1% in March, following a 0.3% rise in the prior month, industry data revealed.
Western Europe's car sales increased 9.1% in the month of April compared to the same month year ago, supported by the timing of Easter holiday, the LMC report showed.
The French Ministry for the Economy and Finance rreported that the country's trade deficit widened in March due to a slump in aircraft sales.
On Friday, European bank stocks were the ones slowing down the rebound of European stock indexes.
The activist fund Elliot has managed to secure two thirds of Telecom Italia's board members. This achievement was gained during the Friday's shareholder vote.
The Chief Executive Office of Tesla on Friday announced that the cut off analysts were searching for a justification to short the company's stock, and that is why they were cut off.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on Friday avoided a complete wipe-out of her party in the London's local election.
The Chinese conglomerate's Alibaba earnings have grown by sixty one percent in the last quarter. This announcement caused a four percent surge of the company's stock price pre-market.
The representatives of the United States are planning to argue for higher global lending rates at the Asian Development Bank's meeting planned for this weekend.
According to the Al-Ahram newspaper, the government of Egypt is considering possibility of sending Arab troops to Syria whose task would be to replace the US contingent.
According to initiative proposed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia will spend $13.33B in next three years on various educational, sports, health and entertainment projects.
According to the Xinhua news agency, China and the United States managed to reach agreement on some issues, such as trade in telecommunication sector, but discrepancy over other problems still remains "relatively big".
Manuela Veloso, the head of machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, was selected on Friday to manage JPMorgan Chase & Co artificial intelligence research.
The US Justice Department filed criminal charges on Friday against former CEO of Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn, incriminating him conspiracy over diesel emissions cheating.
The main Turkish opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) nominated on Friday 53-year-old former teacher Muharrem Ince to compete with Tayyip Erdogan for the post of country's president.
According to the New York Times, the US President Donald Trump asked Pentagon to consider the possibility of reduction of the US military presence in South Korea.
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party managed to retain control in one of the London's districts in local authority elections, thus refuting rumours about strengthening of the position of Labour Party.
The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett said in an interview to CNBC that the fund has additionally acquired nearly 75M of Apple shares in first quarter and noted that Apple is rather consumer then technology company.
The China Security Regulatory Commission stated on Friday it will increase the number of futures contracts available to non-local investors, such as crude oil or iron ore contracts.
The Reserve Bank of Australia saw stronger economic expansion this year and in 2019, but doubted that inflation would reach the target until 2020.
Growth in the Chinese service sector strengthened in April, as employment and new business grew at their fastest pace, a private survey indicated.
The party of the German Chancellor Angel Merkel on Thursday called for an increase of defence spending to the 1.5% mark of GDP.