The public debt-to-GDP ratio of Israel rose to 61% in 2018, a 0.5% increase compared to 2017, the report by the county's Ministry of Finance showed.
A total of 304.7M tons of seaborne goods were handled in Germany's sea ports in 2018, marking a 1.7% increase compared to the prior year, Destatis reported.
The Italian top bank UniCredit and two subsidiaries agreed to pay $1.3B to he US authorities to settle probes of the US sanctions on Iran and other countries' violations, the US authorities stated.
Hulu bought back stake in wireless carrier AT&T, the US streaming service, for $1.43B, in a deal valuing the company at $15B, both companies stated.
The Parisian landmark and UNESCO World Heritage site, Notre-Dame Cathedral, was devastated in a fire that broke out on Monday's evening, France's Junior Interior Minister reported, with the fire causes are still to be determined.
The Belgian cybersecurity centre stated it had not found any evidence that Huawei Technology's telecoms equipment could pose a spying threat to the country's mobile operators, such as Orange Belgium, Telenet and Proximus.
The former Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn has been charged with fraud on Monday by German prosecutors for being involved in the automaker's manipulations regarding diesel emissions testing.
On Monday, Best Buy appointed Corie Barry, its Chief Financial Officer, as the company's new Chief Executive Officer to replace Hubert Joly who is planning to step down to become Best Buy's Executive Chairman.
On Monday, a US federal court dismissed US President's Donald Trump's repeal of an inventory valuation policy that was aimed at increasing taxes collected from oil and coal companies.
Citigroup published their higher than expected quarterly earnings on Monday. Despite the good news, the bank's stock plummeted at the start of the US trading session.
On Monday, Goldman Sachs published details of the bank's overhaul. The announcement was aimed to soften the news of decreasing revenues. Despite the announcement Goldman Sachs Group stock price declined during the US trading session.
On Monday, the International Monetary Fund announced that its delegation will visit Pakistan during this month to discuss a bail out of the country. The deal is bound to influence all assets associated with the country.
On Monday, the head of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda announced to CNBC that interest rates could still be decreased. Bank of Japan already has negative interest rates, which are considered an anomaly of monetary policy.
The Chief Executive Officer of Jet Airways Vinay Dube announced on Monday that his managed company is suspending international flights up to Thursday. The company has not gained interim funding to continue its operations. The announcement hurt the company's stock price.
On Monday, US officials announced that the United States have not set a deadline for a change of government in Venezuela. Although, it was revealed that Nicolas Maduro will not remain in power.
As the US markets opened on Monday, Wall Street stock indices decline. The decline was attributed to the losses suffered by financial stocks. Namely, Goldman and Citigroup stock prices declined.
The key shareholder of the South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines has put its entire stake worth $442M up for a sale to keep the debt-ridden firm afloat and sending its shares up 30% on the news.
Credit Suisse is set to take the majority control of China's Credit Suisse Founder Securities joint venture, bolstering its stake to 51% from 33.3% through a capital injection.
Shares in EDF surged as much as 4.3% this Monday amid hopes that the French utility's re-nationalisation can unlock its value and fence the capital-intensive nuclear activities of EDF from its grids and renewables.
On Monday, Lundin Mining stated it would take over Yamana Gold's gold-copper mine in Brazil in a deal worth over $1.0B, seeking to boost the company's base metals portfolio, and sending Yamana Gold's shares up 7.4% to $2.75 on the news.
On Monday, the electronics for Imaging, the digital printing company, announced it would sell itself to the private equity company's affiliate Siris Capital Group in a deal valued at around $1.7B in cash.
Audi is planning a stake sale in its two development service vendors, seeking to shed 49% stake in PSW Engineering and divest its CSI Entwicklungstechnik division with the 700 staff.
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the biggest brewer in the world, has hired BAML and Citigroup to join the banks working on the planned Asia-Pacific initial public offering that could attract up to $5.0B.
On Monday, nineteen EU countries agreed to remove a two decade old rule that did not allow the creation of new legislation, which would force Google into paying publishers for news on Facebook. The new law is aimed at filtering out protected content.