The Markit/CIPS stated that the UK construction PMI decreased to 50.2 in January, as Brexit uncertainties caused a dry up in new orders.
The US job growth accelerated in January, while wages revealed the strongest annual gain since 2009, fuelling expectations that inflation would rise to the Fed's target this year.
On Thursday, shares in Guess plummeted more than 17%, after a model Kate Upton had tweeted about company's executive accusing him of sexual harassment toward women.
Brazil's planemaker Embraer had accepted Boeing's offer to form a commercial jet joint venture, not involving Embraer's military division, Globo TV reported on Friday.
On Friday, German car plants were stalled amid the third day of the 24-hour strikes that focused on factories owned by Porsche, BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz.
On Friday, the former Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov's daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva resigned as the Uzbek UNESCO representative, seeking to focus on her personal projects in education and charity.
One of the Apple main suppliers Hon Hai that is also known as Foxconn is planning to invest $342M in artificial intelligence and industrial Internet's related spheres.
The Defence Ministry of Slovakia is in talks to purchase either Swedish Gripen or American F-16s fighter jets as it seeks replacing its Russian-made aging MiG-29s.
On Friday, the German carmaker Daimler stated that it was open to broader alliances or partial listings of the company's mobility services operations that also include car sharing.
The Japanese car manufacturer Honda Motor Co Ltd raised its full-year profit forecast by 4% on Friday in response to stronger sales in the Asian market, especially China.
Changan Ford, Ford's joint venture with the Chinese Chongqing Changan Automobile Co, is to recall around 500 000 vehicles due to brake issues.
The US technology firm Alphabet stated on Thursday its Q4 profit had missed the estimates for $7B or $10 per shares, reporting a $6.8B reading or $9.70 per share, lowered by company's spending growth.
On Friday, Japanese Sony reported the best-ever Q3 operating profit of 350.8B yen driven by a rising demand for company's image sensors, and raised its annual profit forecast to 720B yen.
The United Stated is eager to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan, putting more pressure on its President Salva Kiir with intention to end the humanitarian crisis and civil war in the country.
On Friday, the Prime Minister Theresa May stated that the Brexit transition deal with the European Union was expected to be agreed in the following seven weeks.
A source familiar with the matter stated that India's PM Narendra Modi's scheme to prove half of the country's population with health insurance would cost about $1.72B in state and federal funding each year.
China's Alibaba invested $146M in India's online grocer BigBasket in a move to strengthen its position in the online retail space of the country and challenge its US rival Amazon.com.
Alphabet has named the board veteran John Hennessy as the company's new chairman to succeed its current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who is set to retire on February 15.
On Friday, Japanese regulator stated it had called on the cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck to fix its computer network's flaws ahead of hacker's theft of $530M of digital money the previous week.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has ordered Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. to pay a civil penalty of $70M for manipulation of the ISDAFIX interest-rate benchmark.
A statement released by the White House late on Thursday revealed the US President Donald Trump will host Australia's PM Malcolm Turnbull at the White House on 23 February 2018.
According to a Reuters poll of economists, US non-farm payrolls have presumably risen by 180K in January, pointing to the strong economic momentum in the beginning of the year.
On Friday, Sony said that Kenichiro Yoshida, its Chief Financial Officer, is going to replace Kazuo Hirai on the post of the firm's CEO starting from 1 April 2018.
Amazon reported an almost $2B profit, the largest in the company's history, amid strong sales and benefits from the US tax reform.