On Thursday, Casino, the French supermarket retailer, announced it would sell two ‘Geant' hypermarkets in a deal valued at $26M, as part of its debt-cut programme.
Starbucks' China rival Luckin Coffee has hired three investment banks, including Credit Suisse, for its planned US initial public offering this year.
The board member of the Bank of Japan Hitoshi Suzuki warned that the local financial institutions' profits could be hurt significantly by higher credit costs if the country's economy slides into recession.
China's factory activity contracted to the lowest level in three years in February, as export orders declined at the fastest pace since the crisis, highlighting cracks in an economy amid weak demand abroad and at home.
On Wednesday, one of the ECB policymakers Francois Villeroy announced in an interview that ECB needs to look at the possible risk from longer term negative interest rates. It is a clear signal that the rates could remain negative during the longer term future.
The head of the Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that this year the Fed will stop the shrinking of its four trillion US Dollar balance sheet. It is a clear announcement that the USD and subsequently all cash will decline in value, compared to other assets.
US authorities revealed on Wednesday that the founder of My Big Coin has been arrested and will be charged with fraud.
On Wednesday, Airbus announced that it will overcome German freeze of arms sales to Saudi Arabia by redesigning a military aircraft model, which is built in Spain.
On Wednesday, the Robert Lighthizer, who is the US Trade Representative, announced to US Congress that the US and China are far from reaching a trade deal.
During the second half of Wednesday's London trading session crude oil prices had risen more than two percent. The reason for the surge was the fact that Saudi Arabia ignored US pressure to stop production cuts.
During a series of twitter posts about the SEC the Chief Executive Officer of Tesla announced that the company will have significant news to announced at 14:00 PM on Thursday California time.
Late on Wednesday the President of the French Republic announced that the United Kingdom would need to justify any delays in Brexit. The UK would have to state clear objectives.
A German magazine on Tuesday published a story, which announced that the German Chancellor is seeking a no spying deal with China. The deal would allow Huawei to build a 5G network.
On Wednesday, Best Buy share price surged by 16 percent due to an increase of the company's yearly profit forecast.
As the US trading session started on Wednesday, the US Dollar was gaining value against other currencies. Although, the currency was confined to certain ranges due to Jerome Powell's comments.
On Wednesday, as both India and Pakistan claimed that they have downed each other's airplanes, safe haven currencies and assets like gold, Japanese Yen and the Swiss Franc were gaining value.
On Wednesday, Canada's Cogeco Communications stated it was planning to sell the company's cloud services arm, Cogeco Peer 1, in a $548.74M deal with Digital Colony.
Germany's lab and drugs supplies maker Merck has made an all-cash offer to acquire Versum Materials, valuing the US electronic materials developer at $5.9B, including debt.
Nisshin Seifun, Japan's flour maker, agreed to acquire the Australian firm allied Mills from the private equity group Pacific Equity Partners in a deal valued at A$574M, in the company's overseas expansion drive.
The world's largest credit data company Experian announced on Wednesday it had come to an agreement with its competitor ClearScore to abandon the proposed merger, following British competition regulator's warning it could block the deal.
Saudi Aramco added the US investment bank Goldman Sachs as its bookrunner for the planned bond that should help it finance the stake acquisition in SABIC.
On Wednesday, Sarepta Therapeutics announced it would acquire the privately owned gene therapy firm Myonexus Therapeutics in a deal worth $165M, expanding its footprint in the biotech sector.
The Peoples Bank of China announced on Wednesday that the Chinese authorities will soon deal with all risks created by the shadow banking sector.
On Wednesday, the Japanese Yen and the Swiss Franc gained value on the news that Pakistani military shot down Indian jets over Kashmir.