According to Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper, the potential initial public offering of the artificial limb producer Ottobock will not take place earlier than 2020, the company's CEO Philipp Schulte-Noelle confirmed on Friday.
Rothesay Life is preparing a £3.5B worth bid for the reinsurance firm Swiss Re's British unit, putting its plans to launch a 2019 IPO for the UK arm into the question.
Apollo Global Management, the private equity firm, is considering an offer to buy General Electric's aircraft leasing unit worth $40B, sources with a knowledge of a potential deal reported.
Canada's merger-and-acquisition activity is seen to rise in 2019 after hitting the 12-year high in the previous year, as a slide in prices for oil could boost consolidation among energy firms, while cannabis deals could gain momentum.
Euro zone's finance ministers are likely to choose the successor to ECB Chief Economist Peter Praet at the meeting on February 11, the spokesman stated.
Bristol-Myers and Celgene are expected to pay $2.2B, if either of the companies walks away from their $74B merger, according to a regulatory filing.
Gold and foreign currency reserves of Belarus amounted to $7.16B as of January 1, falling over the past year 2.2%, the country's Central Bank stated.
Hungary is set to increase pensions 2.7%, with higher sums starting to arrive on pensioners' bank accounts on January 11, the parliamentary state secretary stated.
The UK shops suffered a decline in sales for the sixth straight year in December, a survey revealed, affected by the shift to online-buying and brittle consumer confidence.
China's securities watchdog, the CSRC, imposed a record amount of fines totalling $1.55B in 2018 to prevent financial risks and punish market irregularities.
China's population is expected to reach its peak of 1.44B in ten years and start a prolonged period of decline in 2030, the report showed.
The US service sector revealed solid expansion in business activity in last year's December 2018, though experienced the weakest growth for in three months, the IHS Markit stated.
The Canadian jobless rate stood at 5.6% in the month of December with an increase of 9.3K net new positions, Statistics Canada reported.
The two biggest smartphone makers supply the majority of the firms' own modem chips to help devices connect to wireless networks, Qualcomm stated.
The growth tendency in property prices in China was no more a certainty as state housing values' controls come into effect, the report stated.
The US automaker Ford announced the decision to recall nearly 953K vehicles worldwide, as some Takata air bag inflators could explode.
Germany's unemployment rate dropped to its record low in 2018, while the number of jobless people declined more than anticipated, the BA report showed.
On Saturday, the Second Criminal Appeals Chamber of Peru rejected a release appeal submitted by the country's Popular Force party leader Keiko Fujimori.
The President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday questioned the prospects of merger between American Boeing and domestic plane producer Embraer.
The President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen on Saturday called international community to help defending the country's democracy amid increasing threat from China.
A senior Iranian energy official stated on Saturday that the government managed to find new oil purchasers despite American sanctions.
Foreign investors contributed $1.5B to the Mongolian economy in the first 11 months of 2018, an increase of 25.6% from 2017, the Finance Ministry says.
Iraq is fully committed to the OPEC production cutoff agreement which is enforced from the beginning of 2019, the Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir al-Ghadhban says.
Sri Lanka plans to attract $3B of foreign direct investment in 2019, the Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama says.