The Australian Bureau of Statistics stated that the country's home loans increased 2.1% month-over-month in November, following a 0.6% decline in the prior month.
The third-largest US railroad operator CSX Corp reported a 6% decline in fourth quarter revenue compared to the third quarter.
The European Central Bank is likely to continue to buy bonds as policymakers need more time to assess the economic outlook.
The United States plans to provide $60M in aid to Palestinians, but cut another $65M for now, a US official says.
China's Chery Automobile Co plans to adopt Nvidia's self-driving technology that it has researched with Baidu and ZF Friedrichshafen AG.
Russia should spend more on education and health care after the presidential election in March, the World Bank's Chief Executive Officer Kristalina Georgieva says.
The US President Donald Trump says he wants to attract more talented immigrants from countries all around the world.
The US President Donald Trump and the Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday discussed tensions between North Korea and South Korea, the White House says.
Swiss food group Nestle plans to sell its US candy business to Ferrero for $2.8B, the Chief Executive Officer Mark Schneider says.
Citigroup reported an $18B quarterly loss due to charges, caused by a new tax law in the US, but the bank's management signaled that it would set higher financial performance goals.
The largest container shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk and IBM are set to create a blockchain-based trading platform to accelerate trade, save billions of the US dollars.
General Motors shares grew on Tuesday, as the company announced expectations for earnings to be mostly flat this year, compared with 2017, and projected an increase in 2019.
General Electric is expected to take a $6.2B hit in its Q4 results for a decade-old insurance portfolio, which covers long-term healthcare costs.
On Tuesday, Citigroup posted a quarterly profit, topping the Wall Street estimates as growth in the global consumer banking business, driven by Asia's solid gains.
Syria's opposition called on the US President Donald Trump and the European Union to put more pressure on Iran's Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies over talks to end Syrian civil war.
On Tuesday, South Africa's Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba stated that the government considered introducing free university education aimed at students from poor households.
Ford Motor became the latest carmaker to invest in batteries and electric vehicles, totalling the investment amount with $90B, a Reuters analysis showed.
Uber stated that its UK drivers would have now a mandatory six-hour break, after 10 hours of passenger carriage in total, responding to a criticism the taxi app faced over excessive labour hours.
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the Prime Minister Theresa May stated that Britain would leave the European Union in response to the EU leader Donald Tusk's suggestion it could change its mind.
Japanese top business lobby has called on companies on Tuesday to raise wages by 3% during the annual negotiations with unions over salary, as the government seeks to encourage inflation.
The European Court of Auditors said on Tuesday that the crisis management procedure of the European Central Bank was deficient and inefficiently implemented.
Sam Woods, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, explained on Tuesday that the exposure of insurers and banks to the bankruptcy of Carillion was ‘entirely manageable'.
On Tuesday, the Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic, accused of murdering ethnic Albanians during the 1998-1999 war, was shot dead in Mitrovica.
The United Arab Emirates is eager to file an aviation complaint against Qatar on Tuesday, following Qatari fighter jets' interception of the Emirati civilian aircraft during its flights to Bahrain.