The US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that Pentagon together with French and British forces fired over 100 missiles on Damascus and other targets in Syria for an alleged chemical attack conducted in conducted a week ago.
According to senior Syrian official, the US and its allies fired about 30 missiles on Saturday night and nearly third of them was intercepted and shot down by local air defense system.
General Electric stated that the company took an equity charge of $4.24B and diminished earning for the last two-year period by $0.30 per share.
Rolls-Royce is set to bid to supply engines for a wide-body planes, which China was developing with Russia, the China Daily report showed.
Japan is likely to propose a new framework's setting up to talk about trade issues with the US in a next week's summit, aiming to persuade the country to rejoin the TPP.
The Trump administration is likely to back a capital increase of $13B for the World Bank within a deal, which would reform the Bank's lending rules and raise shareholding of China.
On Friday, Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess claimed that a new sanctions row by the US against Russia could negatively affect business relations between Volkswagen and its Russian partner GAZ Group.
Burberry appointed Gerry Murphy, the current chairman of Blackstone Group and Tate & Lyle, as the new chairman of the company, replacing John Peace who has been chairing Burberry since 2002.
On Friday, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Suma Chakrabarti said that a new massive wave of development is expected in Sub-Saharan Africa in the nearest few years.
The US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons program during their meeting in Florida on the next week.
On Friday, Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said that his company will be profitable in the third and the fourth quarters of 2018 and will not attract funds from investors till the end of the year.
The Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres urged all countries for responsibility in their actions regarding the Syrian dangerous circumstances.
The head of the toy firm MGA Entertainment Isaac Larian put in a $890M bid for the US toy retailer Toys 'R' Us stores in Canada and the United States.
According to Fitch Ratings, the newly-imposed US sanctions would have a ‘severe effect' on their targeted Russian firms, as well as were likely to limit Russia's economic growth.
US regulators have offered Wells Fargo & Co a fine of $1B to settle the ongoing investigation into the bank's links to mortgage lending and auto insurance abuses.
Argentina's economy recorded a fiscal deficit of $729.5M in March, while its deficit during the first quarter of 2018 amounted to 0.3% from the country's GDP.
US stocks edged higher on Friday, boosted by solid quarterly earnings reports from three major US banks and eased geopolitical tensions.
On Friday, Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov stated that the messenger application would use its built-in systems to bypass Russia's ban that had been imposed by the court earlier that day.
The German mobile bank N26 is planning to launch its services in the United States and Britain by this year's end, its CEO Valentin Stalf told Reuters on Friday.
On Friday, Russia's court ordered to ban the access to the Telegram messenger in the country over the encryption dispute between the tech company and the Russian authorities.
Russia's billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov sold a 49% stake in the basketball team called Brooklyn Nets to the founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Joe Tsai.
On Friday, Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte apologised to his Myanmar's counterpart Aung San Suu Kyi for a remark that genocide has been taking place in the Southeast Asian country.
Mylan, a generic drug maker, is in advanced talks to buy the German Merck's consumer health business unit, as other bidders failed to live up to the firm's price expectations.
The People's Bank of China reported on Friday that Chinese banks issued 1.12T Yuan ($178B) of new loans in March, compared to 839.3B Yuan during the preceding month.