Mexico's government is set to seek more than $500M from First Majestic Silver, the Canadian miner, in owed taxes for maintaining silver prices low for a decade, two sources said.
Tesla stood to get a single-digit billion euro amount in Germany's public funding for building a battery cell manufacturing near Berlin, Business Insider stated.
At the start of US trading, the price of the iShares Silver Trust ETF jumped almost 12%, as a broad buying spree of the metal was taking place.
China's Xiaomi has filed a legal complaint against the US Treasury and Defense Departments, claiming to eliminate the smartphone maker from the US list of firms with relations to the Chinese military.
UK factory growth is slowing after a sharp drop last month, caused by the coronavirus-related disruption to worldwide shipping and new EU trade barriers.
Global semiconductor sales surged 6.5% globally in 2020, due to an on-going recovery within the last months that helped offset a steep drop-off in the first two months of spring last year.
During Monday's European trading hours, silver prices surged to the eight-year high level, which was previously tested in September.
The EU antitrust regulators is set to rule on Microsoft's $7.5B takeover of ZeniMax Media by March 5, the biggest gaming acquisition of the US tech giant to challenge Sony's PlayStation.
On Monday, Japan's Nintendo upgraded its full-year forecast for the Switch console sales from 24M units to 26.5M units, while shares rose 3.4% to 62,640 yen.
On Monday, Ryanair stated it was expecting to lose around €1B in the current financial year, the carrier's worst performance ever, but it forecast new significant growth opportunities due to the crisis.
On Monday, the Singapore-based Grab said in a statement that it upsized the debut term loan to $2 billion on strong investors demand.
On Sunday, the European Central Bank member Klaas Knot said that the global equity market rally could be fueled by increasing optimism of economic recovery.
The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement on January 30 that the UK would formally apply for membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership next week.
On Sunday, ten Republicans Senators offered the US President Joe Biden a compromised coronavirus relief package plan.
On Sunday, Matteo Renzi, who caused the recent Italian political crisis, stated that he would like to see the former President of the ECB Mario Draghi as the Prime Minister of Italy.
It was revealed by Reuters on Sunday that despite the GameStop short squeeze Melvin Capital has ended the month with $8 billion in assets.
On Sunday, the Member of the European Central Bank Governing Council Klaas Knot stated that the stock market was fuelled by hopes of a coronavirus recovery.
According to a source with knowledge of the matter, the UK government is currently working on a COVID-19 recovery plan for the economy.
According to the Sunday Times newspaper, the UK Queen Elizabeth II is expected to host the US President Joe Biden at Buckingham Palace ahead of the G7 summit in June.
According to Reuters news, Myanmar's newly elected lawmakers undaunted by a threat from the military to stage a coup and vowed to meet in the Parliament for the first time on Monday.
On Sunday, a group of ten US Republican Senators made a proposal for a compromise COVID-19 relief bill.
Chinese statistics published on Sunday revealed that the country's factory activity had increased in January despite a slow down caused by the resurgence of the coronavirus.
On Sunday, the United Kingdom formally applied to join the Trans-Pacific Trading Bloc, which would remove tariffs for exports to 11 countries.
On Saturday, Robinhood revealed that it had put limitations on various stock purchases due to its clearing house increasing deposit requirements ten-fold.