India announced the decision to cut in the goods and services tax charged over residential real estate under construction sales, as the government aims to stimulate the consumption-driven economy.
Canada's Saputo is expected to enter the UK market for the first time after getting agreement to purchase food firm Dairy Crest for $1.27B.
The Chinese cargo throughput increased 9.1% to around 1.14B tonnes in January compared with the same period in the prior year, official data revealed.
China National Petroleum Corporation, the country's biggest oil and gas supplier and producer, reported rapid growth in both oil and non-oil business in the month of January.
Gulf tourism hub Dubai was visited by 15.92M overnight tourists in 2018, up 0.8% from the prior year, official data revealed, with tourist numbers from China growing 12%.
Israel's Central Bank is likely to hold the line over short-term interest rates for a second meeting in succession despite higher-than-anticipated inflation and economic expansion data.
China's Huawei is expected to take the wraps off new phone with folding screen, joining the trend of bendable devices and challenging the global dominant players, Samsung and Apple.
ExxonMobil, the biggest publicly traded oil and gas firm, stated that a new cooperation with Microsoft is likely to make Permian Basin operations the largest oil and gas acreage to use cloud technologies.
Deutsche Telekom reported strong expansion in the United States and Europe for the year of 2018, as the company's revenues grew 1.0% to $75.7B.
Canadas Eldorado Gold reported that the company was ready to increase yearly production to more than 500K in 2020, supported by the Klada gold mine restart in Turkey and the Lamaque project coming online in the home country.
The world's biggest energy trader Vitol stated that oil prices are likely to rally further, as OPEC production cuts and the US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran cause a the low-quality heavy crudes' shortage refiners rely on.
BlackRock and KKR & Co are likely to invest $4B in Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's pipeline network, the first infrastructure partnership by a Middle East state-run oil firm and institutional investors.
Australian networking solutions solutions Netcomm Wireless is expected to be acquired by Casa Systems based in the US for $161M.
The US photovoltaic solutions supplier First Solar released the company's fourth quarter and full-year financial results for the last year, showing that net sales for stood at over $2.2B, with $691M coming from the final quarter.
Swiss drugmaker Roche was nearing a $5B worth deal to acquire the US biotechnology company Spark Therapeutics, the WSJ reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The UK retailers announced plans for the least investment in seven years ahead of the quit from the European Union, while job cuts in the sector gathered pace, a survey revealed.
Taiwan's export orders fell to $40.49B in January, which was 6% down from the same period in the prior year and 6.7% from December, according to the country's economic authority.
The budget deficit of the Philippines widened to $10.7B or 3.2% of GDP in 2018, slightly exceeding the 3% target, data released by the BTr revealed.
On Saturday, the Indian government proposed a new policy for its e-commerce sector, with a focus on data localisation.
On Saturday, EU's Agriculture Chief said that the European Union expects the UK to request for help to avoid food shortages under a hard Brexit.
Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan President, said on Saturday that his administration had broken diplomatic relations with Colombia.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un began a long train trip to Vietnam on Saturday, for next week meeting with the US President Donald Trump.
The number of registered companies in Beijing rose by 180T to 1.65M by the end of 2018, the Beijing municipal administration reports.
The Chinese commercial banks reported a net forex settlement surplus of $12.1B in January, the first surplus in 7 months, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange reports.