The Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani pledged to deepen political and economic cooperation between the two countries.
The US and China have decided to restart trade negotiations and the Trump administration has postponed new tariffs on Chinese goods, the US President Donald Trump says.
The European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur signed a free-trade deal on Friday after two decades of negotiations and amid the rise of protectionism across the globe.
There are no changes in an agreement to purchase Russian S-400 missile defence systems, the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
Facebook's WhatsApp has hired Alice Newton-Rex, the Chief Product Officer of the British money transfer start-up WorldRemit, to join the messaging app's product team, according to Reuters.
Alphabet's cybersecurity firm Chronicle is set to be absorbed by the tech giant's Google Cloud division due to customers' requests for an integrated offering, the company announced on Thursday.
On Friday, shares in The RealReal, the US online luxury reseller, surged as much as 40% in the debut, giving the company a market value of $2.32B, triggering investors interest for consumer companies listings.
Deutsche Bank is considering to trim about 15K-20K jobs during the following year with the layoffs to spread across businesses in various regions, according to the Wall Street Journal's report published on Friday.
Apple is moving the Mac Pro desktop computer production from the United States to China, according to the Wall Street Journal, following Trump Administration's threats to impose new tariffs.
On Friday, .SPXBK, the S&P 500 bank index, share surged as much as 2.6% after the US Federal Reserve had granted its approval for the largest US banks' capital plans, giving them a clean health bill.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump stated he was preparing to hold productive talks with China's President Xi Jinping during the G20 summit in Japan over their trade dispute that is affecting global growth.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and China's President Xi Jinping agreed that a peaceful solution on Iran's nuclear issue should be applied, avoiding any further escalation of the tension, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
On Friday, the electric car producer Tesla announced it had found no systematic defects in its vehicles on the back of a car fire probe that took place in Shanghai in April, adding the investigation showed this unique incident was caused by the fault of a single battery module.
Merlin, the owner of Madame Tussauds, agreed to be bought by the investment vehicle established by Blackstone and Lego's founding family in a deal valued at %7.5B.
On Friday, Volkswagen-owned truck unit Traton's shares opened at $30.75 following its initial public offering in Frankfurt an Stockholm.
Morgan Stanley is most likely to receive approval from a regulator to own a 51% majority stake in the China securities joint venture planned in this year's second half, according to Reuters.
Toshiba Memory, the world's second-largest producer of the flash memory chips NAND, stated on Friday it would resume production on its plant located in central Japan by mid-July, following a suspension due to a brief power outage in that region.
On Thursday, Apple confirmed its music streaming service reached more than 60M subscribers, including customers on a free trial, still less than the company's main competitor Spotify Technology, which has 100M premium subscribers.
Five Japanese carmakers including Mazda Motor and Suzuki Motor are planning to invest 2% each in the autonomous joint venture set up by Toyota Motor and SoftBank, which would retain their 35% stakes in the firn valued at $26.6M.
The Apple Design Chief and Steve Jobs' confidant, Jony Ive, is set to leave the company later this year to launch his own independent design firm, sending the tech giant's shares down 1.5% to $197.44 on the news.
Nike's net income declined to $989M in the Q4 ended May 31 from $1.14B in the prior quarter, missing analysts' estimates, as the world's biggest sportswear company spent more on new product launches and marketing.
Japan's industrial output grew for a second month in succession, 2.3% in May, above 0.7% growth forecast, suggesting that the rise holds up despite worries that the country's economy remains severely pressured by slower external and domestic demand.
A survey released on Thursday by the Federal Reserve revealed that a big part of Wall Street institutions have experienced increased equity funding demand.
On Thursday, Wall Street edged higher, buoyed by a surge in technology shares. However, the gains were restricted, as traders and investors await the outcome of the US-China trade talks.