Shares of Saudi Aramco are set to start trading on December 11, after the oil giant priced its IPO at $8.53 per share, raising $25.6B and beating the Alibaba Group's record of $25B raised in 2014.
Amazon.com Inc announced it was planning to open new office in Manhattan, New York in 2021, to house its advertising and consumer teams, adding the new space would accommodate over 1.5K employees.
Sweden's mobile telecoms firm Ericsson is set to pay over $1.0B to resolve its US corruption probes, including the government officials bribing, the US Justice Department said.
The industrial conglomerate 3M is considering to sell the drug delivery systems division in a potential deal worth $1.0B, sending it's shares up around 4% to $171.01.
The US power producer PG&E Corp stated on Friday that it has reached a deal with California wildfire victims to pay a $13.5B compensation.
The German carmaker Audi delivered a record high number of 163,350 vehicles in November, an increase of 23.1% from the prior year, a report published by the company shows.
The Cyprus economy is expected to expand 2.9% in 2020, a decline from 3.2% the current year, the Cypriot Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides says.
Chinese tourists are very important for the Greek economy and the country makes a lot of efforts to attract more of them, the Tourism Minister Harry Theocharis says.
According to the Panelbase opinion poll, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Tory Party has widened its lead over the major opposition Labour Party by nine points.
On Friday, Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of UK's opposition Labour party, went offensive on Brexit ahead of the UK general election showdown.
Tesla announced on Friday that its China-built Model 3 vehicles would get new energy vehicle state subsidies from the Asian country, helping the US electric carmaker to push into the largest auto market in the world.
China's Dongfeng Motor is considering a partial sale of its stake in the Peugeot owner PSA Group, hiring a couple of banks to review possible options, Reuters reported on Friday.
On Friday, the world's second-largest fashion group H&M announced that its COS brand had tied up with YCloset, China's subscription rental platform, to test clothing rentals in the country.
On Friday, Bilibili, the Chinese video site, has signed a three-year contract to broadcast the events related to League of Legends, the most popular desktop game in the world, as the Chinese e-sports market heats up.
Telefonica is set to acquire some of the Huawei Technologies' core equipment for the planned 5G mobile network launch in Spain but is planning to choose another supplier next year, Telefonica's spokesman stated on Friday.
Italy's economic growth is set to remain weak during the following time period, according to ISTAT, the national statistics bureau, and its report published on Friday.
The US job growth likely rises in November amid the General Motors' former striking workers, who returned to payrolls, potentially confirming the economy stayed on a moderate path of expansion despite an extended manufacturing slump.
During Friday's Asian and European trading hours, crude oil price benchmarks traded sideways, as the markets expected a confirmation of speculated OPEC+ production cuts.
WPP has finalised the 60% sale of Kantar, the data analytics business, to the private equity group Bain Capital, planning to return around $1.2B to investors through the share repurchase programme.
On Friday, the insurance firm Phoenix Group Holdings has agreed to acquire the UK unit ReAssure from Swiss Re AG, in its largest-ever cash and shares deal valued at $4.1B.
Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil giant, has priced its shares at the top of the range of $8.53 per share in the world's largest initial public offering, Reuters reported.
Big tech groups such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon.com, face a growing number of antitrust probes launched by the US Congress and the federal government over their anticompetitive practices, operations and other more.
International Space Station has launched an intelligent emotion-sensing robot CIMON 2 on Thursday, designed to assist astronauts in orbit and equipped with cameras, microphones and a software that enables emotion recognition.
Uber launched its ride-hailing services in Ivory Coast's capital of Abidjan on the back of the company's expansion into the African markets, which have limited mass transport and low levels of vehicle ownership.