The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index for the United States improved over the month of January, jumping to 125.4 points and, thus, surpassing analysts' expectations.
KOF Economic Research Agency reported that its leading economic indicator dropped to 106.9 points in January from the 111.4-point reading registered in the preceding month.
According to the preliminary data released by Eurostat on Tuesday, the seasonally-adjusted GDP was up 0.6% in the Euro zone over the course of the final quarter of 2017.
About 260 companies in Germany, including Porsche, Daimler and Bosch, are expected to be affected by a 24-hour strike scheduled on late Tuesday as employees raise outrage over wages and working hours.
On Tuesday, Montenegro has inked a deal to buy three helicopters from Bell Helicopter for $37M, seeking to bolster the country's defences as NATO's new member.
JPMorgan Chase, Amazon.com and Berkshire Hathaway teamed up to form a venture with intention to lower their employees' healthcare costs in the United States.
The Saudi Arabian government is set to seize more than $100B in financial settlements amid corruption crackdown, the country's attorney general stated on Tuesday.
On Monday, Microsoft issued an urgent security update to disable Intel's buggy Spectre patch after it had caused PCs to reboot more frequently than normal.
The Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco is considering expansion into India's market, Nikkei reported on Tuesday, while Aramco's CEO stated plans for a refinery were crystallising.
Uber is planning to sell a vehicle lease portfolio of the company's auto-leasing unit Xchange to a start-up digital vehicle marketplace Fair, not disclosing financial terms.
On Tuesday, Varian Medical signed a deal to buy Australia's Sirtex Medical for around $1.3B, as the company intends to expand its cancer care product portfolio.
Oil prices fell to their weekly low on Tuesday, as stronger Greenback and increased US supply put downward pressure on the commodity.
The gross domestic product of the 19 Eurozone countries grew by 2.5% in 2017, thus recording the highest pace of expansion since 2007.
BP has invested $5M in the US mobile electric vehicle firm FreeWire to help the company provide rapid charging at the retail sales in the EU and Britain amid rising demand for cleaner cars.
On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Ministry stated it would represent the Syrian opposition at Russia's peace conference, following opposition's decline to attend the Syria talks.
On Tuesday, Japanese Canon stated it was seeing its operating profit to surge 27% in 2018, reaching the highest level in ten years.
General Motors is planning to introduce 15 new and redesigned car models in China later this year, as the carmaker seeks to strengthen its sales momentum in the automobile market.
Japan's Renesas Electronics on Friday disproved it had considered buying the US chipmaker Maxim Integrated Products, following a media report by CNBC that claimed a deal was already valued at $20B.
Fiat Chrysler is eager to provide Waymo with its Pacifica hybrid minivans amid Alphabet's unit expansion into the public ride-hailing service that is expected to be launched later this year.
The US private equity firm Blackstone is negotiating a purchase of about 55% stake in Thomson Reuters' Financial and Risk unit that could value a business at around $20B including debt.
On Monday, Germany's business software company SAP announced its unit SAP America would acquire a cloud-based HR software firm Callidus Software in a deal worth $2.4B.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May assured that the UK would hold ‘frank discussions' with China later this week in an attempt to strengthen their bilateral trade relations.
The Indian ride-hailing firm Ola plans to enter the Australian market as of early 2018, thus providing competition to its US rival Uber Technologies Inc.
The US-based chipmaker Qualcomm Inc is set to make its first instalment of $13.35M for violating anti-trust rules, the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission told media on Tuesday.