On Saturday, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported that China has appointed the Chairman of ICBC Yi Huiman, as the head of Securities Regulatory Commission.
On Friday, US payment company Mastercard Inc announced that it plans to apply for China's bankcard clearing license.
The Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday that China is confident of keeping its 2019 economic growth rate within an appropriate range.
The United Steelworkers union said on Friday that Shell Oil is dragging feet on major issues in refinery contract negotiations.
On Friday, the United States said that it was ready to increase economic pressure on Venezuela to try to push the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power.
On Saturday, Malaysia's Economic Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali said that the country would cancel its $20 billion railway project with China Communications Construction company.
The United States is asking the United Nations Security Council to fully support Venezuela's National Assembly as the only democratically elected institution in Venezuela.
US stocks and bond yields rallied on Friday after the US President Donald Trump agreed to end the partial government shutdown.
The US President Donald Trump conceded on Friday under mounting pressure to temporarily end the partial government shutdown without border wall funding.
The US top coffee chain operator Starbucks Corporation reported a better than expected net revenue growth of 9% to $6.63B for the first fiscal quarter.
Sri Lanka has signed a $200M agreement with the World Bank to increase the use and quality of health care services, a statement from the World Bank shows.
Online retail sales in the province of Zhejiang reached $246.08B in 2018, an increase of 25.4% from the previous year, the Zhejiang Commerce Department reports.
The Chinese company COSCO Shipping Ports has reached an agreement with the Peruvian polymetallic miner Volcan to purchase 60% of its stake in a terminal project for $225M, the China Daily reports.
China welcomes Vladimir Norov as the new Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying says.
Lebanon has signed a contract with the Russian energy company Rosneft to manage oil storage terminals for the next 20 years, the Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil says.
Hong Kong remains the world's freest economy for the 25th consecutive year, shows the Index of Economic Freedom released by the Heritage Foundation.
China-France bilateral ties are "brilliant", the Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi says at a meeting with the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's Chief Executive Officer, is set to unify the messaging infrastructure of the company's Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp services to incorporate the end-to-end encryption to its apps.
Naspers, South Africa's e-commerce and media group, is getting closer to the deal to acquire the rest of 32% stake in Russia's Avito, the biggest classified advertising platform.
RDIF, Russia's sovereign wealth fund, is considering acquiring stakes in three businesses owned by Sistema conglomerate, according to RDIF's CEO statement on Friday.
On Friday, the Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor is planning to boost its Chinese car sales by 8% to 1.6M this year, after it sold 1.47M vehicles last year, which was up 14.3% from 2017.
Alibaba has criticised the treatment of Huawei Technologies provided by the United States, calling it "extremely unfair", adding it had considered such measures as "very politically motivated" move.
The French conglomerate L'Oreal's CEO Jean-Paul Agon stated the group is hoarding cosmetics in Britain amid its preparations for the UK withdrawal from the EU bloc.
One of the Deutsche Bank's board members stated the bank had no intention or desire to sign a merger deal with its competitor Commerzbank in near future.