The Finance Minister of Japan Taro Aso stated on Tuesday that the mere fact of election victory should be considered as people's support for the government plans to increase taxes.
LG Display stated on Tuesday that it is likely to invest $2.6B in the company's organic light-emitting diode panels production lines in South Korea.
China's Huawei Technologies announced that it was slashing at least 600 positions at the Futurewei Technologies research unit in the US after being included in the trade blacklist by the country's government.
The Bank Negara Malaysia stated on Monday that in the first half of July the central bank's reserves have increased 0.6%, reaching $103.3B.
On Monday, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) dumped $7.27B into the market via acquisition of securities from banks at 2.55% with a promise to sell them again in future.
Last week, crude oil prices fell 6.37%, reaching $55.63 a barrel, amid deterioration of the situation between Iran and its western opponents in the Strait of Hormuz.
Yang Fei, the Foreign Trade Manager of Chinese woodworking company Suzhou Far-East Abrasives, stated on Monday that the company planned to increase cloth and sanding belt to the US market.
Casino, the French supermarket retailer, is set for its subsidiary Vindémia sale in a deal valued at $246M, as the company had been put under pressure to cut its high debts.
Novatek, Russia's natural gas producer, announced on Monday it had finalised the stakes sale it owned in the Arctic LNG-2 project to Japan Arctic LNG's consortium, CNOOC and the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation.
Equifax, the credit reporting company, is set to pay up to $650M to settle the US state and federal inquiries into a massive professional information data breach that took place in 2017, authorities stated on Monday.
The South Korean Hana Bank agreed to acquire a 15% stake in Vietnam's second-largest listed bank BIDV in a deal valued at $850M, its owner Hana Financial Group announced on Monday.
China's ByteDance announced on Monday about its plans to set up a data centre based in India, despite facing concerns over consumer privacy and ban demands on TikTok, its popular video app.
On Monday, Ted Baker's shares surged more than 15% after media reported the company's founder Ray Kelvin could explore the high street retailer's private equity buyout, a few months after his resignation, according to the Sunday Times.
On Monday, China's Tencent Games stated its Timi Studio would team up with Nintendo's The Pokemon Company to develop a new game, not providing any further details on the tie-up.
On Monday, the French bank Natixis denied it had been in talks on a possible takeover bid for the credit insurance subsidiary Coface, in which the French lender held a stake of about 41.7%.
India's government called on the country's antitrust watchdog to review whether the "Big Four" auditing companies and their units are affecting competition in India in any manners, senior government official stated on Monday.
On Monday, Metro Bank has confirmed it had been in talks over the loan portfolio sale, as the troubled lender sought to kick off the mortgage portfolio to Cerberus Capital Management in a potential deal worth £500M.
On Monday, the Dutch health technology group Philips reported its Q2 comparable sales rose 6% to $5.24, beating analysts' estimates, and driven by high demand for its US and Chinese hospital equipment.
The British Prime Minister front-runner Boris Johnson stated that the UK could agree the free trade deal to withdraw from the EU bloc, breaking the Brexit deadlock, according to The Telegraph newspaper.
On Monday, the Japanese automaker Toyota Motor has revealed a prototype of the field support robot on its "e-Palette" ride-hailing vehicle, which is currently under development.
China stated that it is likely to impose anti-dumping taxes on some products of stainless steel imported from the EU, Japan, Indonesia and South Korea, the country's Ministry of Commerce stated in a statement.
South Korea's exports for the 20 days of July fell markedly 13.6% year-on-year, customs data revealed on Monday, led by weak semiconductor shipments, underscoring weakness in global demand.
On Sunday, the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe announced that no decision has still been made to the US request to send the Japanese navy to the shores of Iran and Yemen.
On Sunday, Italian coalition partners were preparing for a showdown during next week, which will determine whether the government remains intact or collapses.