The Housing Minister of the People's Republic of China Chen Zhenggao has announced that property prices in China are expected to remain stable during the first quarter of 2017.
ABB, the engineering group from Switzerland, on Wednesday announced that the company has become a victim of a criminal fraud scheme at the South Korean subsidiary of the company. The main suspect is an ethics training executive.
Expectations of the US oil inventories data showing an increase in stockpiles caused black gold to drop more than 1% on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, John Kelly, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, stated that the US government is not conducting mass deportations, however, they are happening a lot faster than before.
The EU called on the Albanian opposition not to block a judicial reform that is the main step toward launching Albania's membership negotiations with the European Union.
Mexico will vigorously fight the US mass deportations of undocumented immigrants back to Mexico and refuse to accept any non-Mexicans expelled across the border.
Apple has announced that it will begin moving staff into its new $5B headquarters in April, opening a futuristic campus that has been more than six years in the making.
French carmaker PSA Group expects its planned acquisition of General Motors' Opel division to lead to combined sales of 5 million vehicles by 2022 and save as much as 2B euros annually.
Italian taxi drivers have called off the protests over delays over an Italian legislation regulating app-based Uber and car-hire services.
The German government on Wednesday approved stricter measures to deport asylum seekers whose applications had been denied.
The FTSE 100 closed up 0.3%, falling off session's highs after the Q4 GDP report showed the country's economy grew 0.7%, while business investment and consumer spending slid.
According to people familiar with the matter, the proposed PSA-Opel tie-up could generate up to $2.1B savings for the French automaker.
The 65-year-old French politician Francois Bayrou offered an alliance with the presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, saying the union "can bring something to the country".
According to Marine Le Pen's lawyer, the French police confined the National Front leader's close aides for questioning over accusations of wasting EU funds.
Wall Street saw a weak start of the NY session on the back of a 1.2% slide in oil prices that caused the S&P500 energy index slump 0.64% on Wednesday.
The NAR reported that existing home sales in the US surged 3.3% over the month of January, suggesting that buyers are getting more confident in the country's economy.
Following last year's boycott of the haj, Iran sent a group of representatives to lead talks with Saudi Arabia in order to clear the matter on this year's Muslim pilgrimage.
A global deal aiming to boost the world economy by 0.5% with softened border regulations and reduced bureaucracy was enforced on Wednesday and is said to face no threats by rising protectionism in the US.
German carmaker BMW and Israeli Mobileye teamed up and signed a contract over Mobileye vision sensing would be contributing to the construction of the high-definition maps for automated vehicles.
The UK is eager to supply Somalia and South Sudan with extra money of $250M for each state in 2017/2018 as an additional help to fight hunger spread over the countries.
On Wednesday, an Uzbek opposition journalist Muhammad Bekjanov emerged from jail after 18 years as he was imprisoned for spreading and publishing banned newspapers and staging the forbidden political protests.
A media report received by the police officers about an armed man to enter the school in the West of Germany with intentions to shoot people proved to be fake alert.
According to the EU statistics agency, the Euro zone inflation climbed to the 1.8% annual rate in the previous month on the back of energy cost surplus up to 8.1%.
About 1M of San Jose citizens in the Northern California had to urgently evacuate from their homes as the floods hit the region, putting people lives in danger.