The Finance Minister nominee of South Korea stated that the country's lingering property boom was cooling and economy was below the full potential, indicating to markets that monetary policy tightening was not urgent.
Microsoft stated in a filing that it had made $1.3B in cash payments related to the deal of acquisition of GitHub, the coding hosting startup.
Japanese tech giants Sony and Softbank claimed that they are planning to work on a joint project which would let to provide live images from cameras located at mobile phone staions.
The financial institutions of the Australia, the US and Japan are planning to sign an agreement to finance the infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region.
On Sunday, British newspaper reported that four ministers are planning to leave Theresa May's government after the EU rejects the latest Brexit plan suggested by Theresa May.
The leader of Australian New South Wales Labour party Luke Foley resigned after an allegations in sexual harassment of the ABC journalist four months before the state election.
On Sunday, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd reported about the $1.44B sales record during the first two minutes of the annual Single's Day sale with Apple, Dyson and Xiaomi products heading the top of sales.
The advisor of the White House Peter Navarro claimed that former and current executives should stay out of trade negotiations between the US and China.
On Sunday, Chinese state newspaper China Daily claimed that $57.83B worth of trade deals have been agreed during the China International Import Expo.
On Saturday, the Chief Executive Officer of Mitsubishi Motors Osamu Masuko claimed that his company is considering to launch a full-scale production cycle of vehicles in Vietnam instead of a simple assembly.
Hans-Eckhard Sommer, the head of the German BAMF refugee agency, said on Saturday that local and federal authorities must observe and apply statutes on deportation strictly.
Ska Keller and Sven Giegold were selected on Saturday to lead the second-large German political party, the Greens, at the next European Parliament elections.
The head of the European Council Donald Tusk criticized on Saturday European politicians who supported Brexit, the US course on isolationism and expressed sympathy to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
On Saturday, the former spy chief of Saudi Arabia Prince Turki Al-Faisal said that his country would never accepts results of international investigation of the Khashoggi case, as it has its own fully-fledged judicial system.
On Saturday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a phone coversation with his Austrian colleague Karin Kneissl, in which he emphasized that any accusations not supported by facts were unacceptable.
The Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo called international commonity to condemn the US withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal and imposition of sanctions.
A number of Western countries, including the United States and Britain, stated that dissolution of the Parliament of Sri Lanka by the country's President Maithripala Sirisena was undemocratic.
The Budget Minister of France Gerald Darmanin said on Saturday that the country's tax administration will launch a pilot project whose goal is to seach tax avoiders through their accounts in social media.
According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, sales of new cars in China have dropped by 11.7% for the same period in comparison with a previous year, resulting in 2.38M sold vehicles.
On Saturday, the Trade Minister of the UK Liam Fox claimed that a Brexit deal between the UK and the EU could be reached before the departure of Britain from the EU in March 2019.
On Saturday, the leader of Iran Hassan Rouhani claimed that newly announced US sanctions on Iran will not have an effect.
On Saturday, El Pais reported that IAG, the Anglo-Spanish company owning British Airways, is preparing to avoid falling foul of the EU ownership rules in case of no-deal Brexit.
On Saturday, the Airbus source claimed that the largest air carrier of India IndiGo has switched its order of 125 Airbus A320neo planes to longer range Airbus A321neo jets.
The Russia's Industry and Trade Ministry stated on Friday that accusations made by the US about the breach of chemical weapons laws was nothing more than a blackmail intented to divert attention from domestic problems.