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.
The Mexican government suspended the construction work of new major airport in Texcoco worth $13.3B, the Transport Minister Javier Jimenez Espriu says.
The number of tourists who visited Kenya increased 7.5% in the first nine months of 2018, compared to the same period the previous year, the Kenya Tourism Board reports.
The IHS Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index increased slightly to 51.2 in December from a 28-month low of 50.4 in November, a report shows.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to improve coordination in Syria, the Kremlin reports.
Tunisia and France signed a $136M bilateral cooperation deal on electricity distribution, the Director of French Agency for Development in Tunisia Gilles Chausse says.
On Friday, global equity markets edged higher after stronger-than-expected US employment data report eased some economic fears.
On Friday, the USDA agency said that it would delay some key US agriculture reports due to the ongoing government shutdown.
The United States and China representatives will meet on Monday and Tuesday in Beijing to discussion trade, as both countries are under pressure to end the trade war.
On Friday, the US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that he would not resign from his position even if the US President Donald Trump asked him to do so.
Euro zone's inflation eased to 1.6% in December below the forecasts, moving away from the ECB target of 1.8%, a report on preliminary estimates showed on Friday.
China Sinochem's energy platform is planning to cut 200 of their job positions due to poor reception from the chemical and petroleum market, after already slashing over 300 jobs in the end of November 2018.
The former Barclays bosses are facing criminal charges at the London trial over deals with Qatar's investors to secure injections of cash allowed by the bank during the 2008 financial crisis.
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to hold a phone call with the EU President Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday amid her intentions to receive concessions from Brussels over the Brexit deal.
On Friday, oil inched higher toward $57 a barrel after China announced it would hold the trade talks with the United States to try to resolve the ongoing trade dispute.
Retail vacancies in the United States rose marginally to 10.2% in the Q4, compared to the preceding year's 10.0% reading, the real estate research company Reis reported.
The US chipmaker Qualcomm has enforced the court order that bans sales of some Apple's iPhones in Germany on the back of the patent dispute between the companies.
On Friday, Tesla announced it would launch deliveries of its Model 3 vehicles to the Chinese customers starting this year's March, marking the time frame the US EV maker's CEO Elon Musk set a year ago.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA has received bids for its shallow water oilfield from Australia's Karoon Energy and Brazil's PetroRio, on the back of the state-owned oil giant's new divestment programme.
Nissan Motor's ousted Chairman Carlos Ghosn will appear in Tokyo court within the next five days as he requested to hold an open hearing, which will be his first public appearance since the arrest that took place on November 19.
Indonesia's state energy firm PT Pertamina is set to buy domestic crude oil from contractors, such as PetroChina, Chevron, Petrogas and others, starting from this year's Januaary.
On Thursday, Alphabet's life science tech unit Verily announced a $1.0B worth investment round led by the private equity group Silver Lake, with its Managing Director, Egon Durban, to be nominated to the division's operating board.
2.3M tourists visited Sri Lanka in 2018, compared to 2.1M tourists in 2017, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority reports.