Trump's administration is likely to offer a contract providing one company a right to serve billions of dollars of federal student loans, which now are handled by four firms.
Mark Carney, the BoE Governor, visited the White House to meet Gary Cohn, the Trump's chief economic advisor, on the matter of global financial stability issues.
The EU told a South Korean envoy that the bloc was ready to team up with international partners to de-escalate tensions and denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
The Greenback was poised for the worst week since April 2016 versus a basket of major currencies. The US Dollar lost 2% this week, falling 0.6% on Friday and reaching the lowest level since November 9.
South Sudanese pro-government forces killed 114 civilians in a single town last year amid growing ethnic violence in the country's civil war, a new United Nations report said on Friday.
Milos Zeman, the President of Czech Republic, said he would appoint Ivan Pilny, the former head of Microsoft's operations, as a new finance minister.
Citing relatively weak economic data, the chief of St. Louis Fed raised questions on Friday about the Fed's plans for two more rate hikes this year, saying the strategy may be too aggressive.
Two army officers and a police officer were stabbed at a train station in central Milan on Thursday evening, according to reports in Italian media.
Ford is to invest $350M in a Michigan transmission plant, protecting or creating 800 production jobs, as it struggles to bolster the profitability of its core automotive business by cutting costs.
The President Emmanuel Macron visited French troops fighting jihadists in conflict-torn Mali on Friday and urged faster progress on a peace accord signed in 2015.
According to media reports, the former US Congressman Anthony Weiner is expected to plead guilty to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor.
A security researcher claims to have created a new tool capable of restoring computers infected by WannaCry ransomware.
The European Commising reported that consumer confidence in the Euro zone climbed 0.3 points to -3.3 in May, whereas experts anticipated an increase of 0.6 to -3.0.
Statistics Canada reported on Friday that retail sales jumped 0.7% in March, following the preceding month's drop of 0.4%, while core retail sales rose 0.4% in the same moth, compared to February's fall of 0.1%
Romanian Parliament approved the law that allows direct financial assistance to the Holocaust survivors in the ex-Nazi country during the World War Two.
On Friday, Canada reported that its Consumer Prices Index climbed to 0.4% in April from the prior's month 0.2%, but slightly missed expectations for a 0.5% jump.
According to the Russia's Central Bank statement on Friday, the Wannacry ransomware attack that hit the world compromised some Russian banks' systems, but not affecting them seriously.
On Friday, Spain's anti-austerity Podemos party filed a vote of non-confidence against the PM Mariano Rajoy amid an alleged slew of corruption scandals hit the leading People's Party in the last few years.
The French President Emmanuel Macron is eager to make his first trip to Mali on Friday with intention to meet the troops fighting against the Islamist militants.
Destatis reported on Friday that German producer prices jumped 0.4% in April, following the preceding month's 0.0% reading and topping expectations for a 0.2% gain.
On Friday, Russia's Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov stated that the US military strike against the Syrian militia that hit civilians was totally unacceptable.
On Wednesday, at least 500 richest people of the world lost $35B as the global equity markets were hit by the United States' political chaos linked to the President Donald Trump.
Russia becomes increasingly unhappy to be in the centre of the US political chaos that raises chances the President Donald Trump presumable impeachment.
A car rammed into pedestrians at the Time Square in New York, leaving a teenager dead and 23 people hurt, but no signs of terrorist attack were indicated.