Institutional Shareholder Services have advised against the sale of Rite Aid to Albertsons and advises shareholders to vote against a merger.
The Agriculture Minister of Germany on Saturday announced that an increase of US soy imports will not hurt the EU farmers.
The administration of the US President Donald Trump has been quietly pushing the creation of an Arab state military alliance that would confront Iran.
On Saturday, voting began in the Australian by-elections, which are seen as a benchmark for the re-election of the country's Prime Minister.
White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump is open to visit Russia after Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the US President to come to Moscow.
US President Donald Trump seized on a report of strong economic growth on Friday, as an indication that the US economy is making a remarkable turnaround during his presidency.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump gathered his national security team for high-level meetings on election security, few months before the congressional mid-term elections.
On Friday, CBS Corporation shares fell by 6.3% to $53.88 per share after a Hollywood Reporter said that NY magazine will soon publish an article of sexual misconduct by CBS CEO Leslie Moonves.
The spokesman for Canada's Trade Minister Jim Carr said on Friday that Canada is planning to host meetings of trade ministers to discuss reform the WTO, but China and the US will not be part for now.
On Friday, North Korea handed what believed to be the remains of US soldiers killed during the Korean War some 65 years ago.
Twitter Inc reported fewer monthly active users than expected on Friday as it warned that the closely watched numbers could keep declining while it deletes fake accounts making shares to plummet.
The United States economy grew at 4.1% in the second quarter, its fastest movement in almost four years as consumers spending increases and farmer sold more soybeans to China before the tariffs took effect in July.
On Thursday, Electronics Arts reported its quarterly adjusted revenue growth came at $1.16B, missing analysts expectations of a $1.23B reading.
On Friday, the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stated he had agreed with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin to negotiate a nuclear power agreement in the near future.
SK Hynix is planning a $1.6B share buy-back, seeking to invest $3.1B to establish new semiconductor factory in South Korea, boosting the DRAM memory chipmaker shares up 3.5%.
On Friday, shares in Intel dropped 9% amid fears that Advance Micro Devices might be chiseling off the market share from the high-margin data centre business.
Shares in Amazon.com surged 4%, hitting the record-high, as the online retailing titan's Q2 profit topped $2.0B for the first time.
Italy's largest utility Enel is seeking to negotiate the stake sale in EF Solare, the solar joint venture, to its partner F2i, sources reported on Friday.
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg loses over $15B on Thursday, after the social media firm had suffered the largest one-day wipe-out in the US stock market history.
Germany is accelerating its efforts to protect its key companies from the Chinese investors by acquiring a stake in the high-voltage energy network operator and seeking to veto the machine-tooling business sale.
Thomson Reuters's Financial and Risk division is set to be renamed Refinitiv after the US private equity group Blackstone acquires a controlling stake in the unit.
According to the Information news outlet, the Chinese firm Hillhouse Capital Group has entered talks over a potential purchase of Yum China Holdings, KFC restaurants' operator in the country.
South African firm Naspers is thinking over listing some of the e-commerce ventures in New York and Hong Kong, as it seeks to narrow a discount between its Tencent stake and market value.
Hyatt Hotels, the US global hospitality firm, has expressed its interest in the Spanish bid target NH Hotel group, escalating a takeover fight with Thailand's Minor International.