Yahoo shareholders have approved the sale of the company's core Internet operating business to Verizon for $4.48B.
Opel reported on Thursday that General Motors, Opel's parent company, would probably complete its sale to Peugeot by the end of July.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment aid dropped 10K to 245K in the week ended June 2, while analysts anticipated a bigger fall to 241K.
The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index held steady at 51.3 in June, whereas analysts expected an increase to 51.6 points.
Statistics Canada reported that the New Housing Price Index surged 0.8% in April, following the prior month's rise of 0.2% and surpassing expectations for a 0.3% increase.
Eurostat reported that GDP rose 0.6% on a quarterly basis in the Q2 of 2017 in both the Euro zone and the 28-country bloc.
The European Central Bank kept its monetary policy unchanged at its meeting on June 8, meeting analysts' expectations.
According to the SECO, the unemployment rate in Switzerland remained unchanged at 3.2% in May, almost meeting expectations for a reading of 3.3%.
Boeing is under consideration of introducing new pilotless jets and is eager to launch several tests of such a technology in 2018.
Qatari media network Al Jazeera stated on Thursday it would keep its editorial independence in the Gulf dispute despite a diplomatic crisis.
The Japan automaker Nissan Motor announced about its intention to implement the automatic emergency breaking standard into around 1M of the US 2018 model vehicles.
On Friday, Catalonia's regional government is willing to call a referendum on its withdrawal from Spain despite Madrid saw such an act as completely illegal.
On Thursday, China urged all sides to exercise restraint after North Korea had launched its land-to-ship ballistic missiles off the country's Eastern coast.
UAE's Emirates Post Group suspended all the postal services to Qatar as the Gulf leader had broken diplomatic and travel links with its neighbour until further notice.
On Thursday, Pierre Moscovici, the EU's Economic and Financial affairs Commissioner, warned Greece's creditors about "playing with fire", referring to the country's debt relief program, as the Euro zone's Finance Minister are not expected to reach a deal during their upcoming meeting on Monday.
On Thursday, the EU is considering to relaunch the capital markets union project amid approaching Brexit, as UK's exit from the Union would limit access to the region's largest financial center - London.
The Court of Seoul jailed a former South Korea's Minister of Health Moon Hyung-pyo to 2.5 years on Thursday as he was linked to the Samsung corruption scandal.
Alibaba's CFO Maggie Wu stated on Thursday that the company anticipated a 45-49% revenue growth in the fiscal year of 2018 compared to 56% revenue growth data for the same period in 2017.
The UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan expressed his condolences to the victims of the Parliament and Mausoleum deadly attacks in Iran on Thursday, criticising "the horrific crime".
On Thursday's night an attacker threw an explosive device into the US embassy's compound in Ukraine's capital of Kiev, injuring no one.
On Thursday, seven more bodies were found 35 km from the coastal town of Launglon in the search of the Myanmar military aircraft that had gone missing the day before with 122 people on board.
Iran's Foreign Minister rejected the condolences expressed by Donald Trump over Tehran's deadly attacks, calling them "repugnant" as the US President said that countries supporting terrorism reaped their own rewards.
On Thursday, the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan announced that Turkey, Russia and Iran had postponed the scheduled negotiations on Syria in Astana until an inexact date.
The Philippines military is expected to break the Marawi City's siege in a short time as its troops have already entered three areas and forced out the Islamic State militants.