The US cloud storage firm Dropbox released better-than-anticipated financial results for the Q4, with the fourth quarter's revenue growing 23% year-on-year to hit $375.9M.
Home prices in 70 Chinese cities remained largely stable in January, edging up 0.4% month-over-month in January, the NBS report showed.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping stated the the country's financial sector must serve its real economy, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The US Justice Department stated that it filed complaints for forfeiture and recovery of nearly $38M in assets related to 1MDB case, bringing the assets now subject to forfeiture to a total of about $1.7B.
US shares edged higher on Friday, powered by technology stocks and bets of progress in trade talks between the United States and China.
On Friday, crude oil prices reached its highest level in over three months on signs of progress in the ongoing trade negotiations between China and the United States.
On Friday, the US Office of Comptroller of the Currency said that it had reprimanded Japan's MUFG Bank over money laundering lapses.
On Friday, Canada's Barrick Gold Corporation said that it was thinking an all-stock bid for rival Newmont Mining Corporation.
General Motors Co announced on Friday that it had extended the production plant at Detroit factory until early 2020.
According to a report by the Guardian newspaper, UK's top cabinet ministers want the British Prime Minister Theresa May to resign after the local elections.
On Friday, Kraft Heinz Co stocks fell to its lowest level, after the company announced $15 billion write-down on its brands.
On Friday, France expressed reservations on whether the European Union should begin trade talks with the United States.
On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency report showed that Iran is still holding up to its end of the nuclear agreement.
The British Fraud Office has abandoned the investigations into bribery allegations against drugs maker GlaxoSmithKline and Rolls-Royce.
The largest US auto retail chain announced on Friday that Carl Liebert will replace the current long time CEO Mike Jackson. Jackson will take the position of chairman.
On Friday, Kraft Heinz stock price was still experiencing the decline, which was caused by the SEC investigation that published the company's brand value.
The German auto producers BMW and Daimler will invest more than one billion euros in the creation of a service that will compete with Uber.
The Swiss bank UBS announced on Friday that it will stick to the dividend proposed in 2018 by the bank's CEO. The dividend will be paid despite the recently received penalty of 4.5 billion EUR from French authorities.
On Friday, JPMorgan Chase announced that the bank is moving its employees from current offices to "hot desks." Hot desk are a new space saving office layout.
The President of the French Republic is set to meet with the Chancellor of Germany on February 27. The two leaders are planning to discuss Brexit, defence and the United States.
By the middle of Friday's London session global stock market indices continued to gain. Financial media attributed the surge to a progress on trade.
On Friday, the spokeswoman of the UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the work on Brexit deal changes is continuing at "a pace".
Reuters announced on Friday that investors are scaling back on bets that the US Dollar will decline. The reason for the change was a Federal Reserve announcement that the US Dollar interest rate will have a premium above other rates.
On Friday, the Vietnamese airline company VietJet Aviation announced that intends to sing a major deal with Boeing during the sidelines of the upcoming Trump-Kim summit.