The German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment declined 1.3 points to 17.4 over the course of December, remaining below the long-term average of 23.7 points.
The UK Office for National Statistics reported that the state's consumer price inflation rose to its highest level in almost six years, hitting the annual rate of 3.1% in November.
On Tuesday, Facebook announced it would book advertising revenue locally amid political pressure, instead of rerouting it through its international HQs in Dublin.
The European Union is about to agree on Thursday to extend the economic sanctions imposed on Russia until mid-2018, following the annexation of the Crimea region.
The French President Emmanuel Macron's labour reforms are expected to be slow, but would have massive impact on the country's stubbornly high unemployment.
The Kremlin stated on Tuesday that Russia would keep Syria's air bases capable to strike at terrorists, if required, following a partial pull-out of its military.
The Germen KBA watchdog called off on Tuesday Volkswagen's EU sport-utility car, after it had detected illicit emissions control devices.
On Monday, Comcast announced it had abandoned the bid for the Twenty-First Century Fox assets, leaving Walt Disney in the pole position of the $40B-plus deal.
PepsiCo made the biggest pre-order of the 100 Tesla electric Semi trucks, as it seeks to lower fuel costs and fleet emissions, company's CEO stated on Tuesday.
The officials of Russia and Turkey were set to meet to finalise the Turkish S-400 surface-to-air missile systems issue in the upcoming week, the President Tayyip Erdogan stated on Monday.
In result of a meeting with the Finance Minister of France Bruno Le Maire, Airbnb decided to revoke a payment system that allowed its users to receive funds without money transiting through bank accounts.
According to survey conducted by the ZEW research institute, the mood of German investors decreased to 17.4 from 18.7 due to uncertainty related to formation of the German government as well as divorce bill on Brexit.
On Tuesday, Thailand stated there would be no trade between it and North Korea ahead of the US envoy's visit that sought to increase pressure on Pyongyang over its missile programmes.
The German carmaker Audi had dropped a plan to sell its motorcycle brand Ducati, the company's CEO Rupert Stadler said, as it expected to be capable to carry Ducati's transformation costs.
The European Union suspended funding for the Cambodian 2018 general election due to the main opposition party dissolution that makes a vote inaccurate.
France's insurance company AXA was planning to step up its investments in the environmentally-friendly projects to around $11B by 2020, the insurer announced on Tuesday.
France's Unibail-Rodamco is planning to buy Australia's shopping mall owner Westfield for $24.7B, which is seen as the biggest takeover of the Australian firm on record.
On Tuesday, Singapore launched its first large-scale e-vehicle sharing programme, as the country seeks providing commuters with various transport options and preventing them from buying their own cars.
In a meeting on migration in the city of Havana, Cuban officials told their American colleagues that suspension of visa processing at the US embassy was "seriously hampering" regular people exchanges and family relations.
Crude oil prices surged by $1.35 on Monday, reaching $65.42 a barrel, as investors focused on unplanned Forties deposit closure in North Sea.
On late Monday, the government of New Zealand appointed Adrian Orr, the chief of a pension fund, as a new governor of the country's central bank.
On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it will start offering computer cloud services in the Chinese region of Ningxia together with new local partner Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co Ltd (NWCD).
China's Xi Jinping and South Korea's Moon Jae-in are set to reaffirm the South Korean deal with China and move past on THAAD, which froze business and trade between the two.
Exxon Mobil stated that it would provide some details over how climate change may affect the company's long-term outlook, in a bid to appease critics.