European stock indices started the year with a decline. Financial media blamed fears of a slowdown of global growth.
Philippine inflation is seen easing to its six-month low in the previous month on slowing fuel and food prices, raising the possibility for the country's central bank to leave the policy rates unchanged for 2019.
Playtech, the gambling software company, is set to pay €28M under the settlement with Israel's tax authorities after its accounts' audit for the 2008-2017 years, the firm stated on Wednesday.
Israel Aerospace Industries, the state-owned defence contractor, has launched talks with the local drone producer Aeronautics, seeking to make an investment in the company.
Britain's Ophir Energy has entered talks with Indonesia's Medco Energi unit over a potential all-cash acquisition offer, having a market valuation worth $321.41M.
Zijin Mining Group, China's gold miner, is planning to sell about $1.2B worth of Shanghai new shares to the Chinese investors to fund its acquisition of the Canadian firm Nevsun Resources.
On Monday, the Israeli banking regulator stated it was set to approve the Bank Leumi's credit card unit, Leumi Card, sale to Warburg Pincus, after finding the deal "fit and proper".
On Monday, Faraday Future, China's electric vehicle developer, announced it had clinched a new restructuring deal with its main investor Evergrande Health Industry Group's unit, ending a legal dispute and clearing the way for raising funds.
Saudi Aramco has acquired the remaining 50% stake in the Netherlands' rubber joint venture Arlanxeo from the chemicals company Lanxess, becoming the only owner of the firm, it announced on Monday.
Iran's value of non-oil foreign trade was at $4.93B over the one-month period ending on December 21, indicating a 34.27% decline in the value compared with the prior period.
The Central Bank of Sudan announced its intention to reduce the country's rate of inflation to 27.1% in 2019.
Australia's home prices skidded almost 5% in 2018, the worst pace since 2008, amid waning investor interest and tighter credit conditions.
The Chinese factory activity weakened for the first time in the 19-month period in December, as export orders kept falling, a private survey revealed.
DP World, the operator of shipping terminals based in Dubai, diversified the company's global business portfolio via investments and acquisitions worth $3B in 2018.
ExxonMobil withdrawn the US oil major's WCC LNG export terminal in Canada from the process of environmental assessment, indicating that the project was shelved.
Jaguar Land Rover is expected to recall more than 68K vehicles in China amid an engine safety hazard, according to the local quality watchdog.
France's Emmanuel Macron vowed to press over with his reform agenda in the year of 2019 in spite of a spate of protests, which extended a drop in the president's approval ratings.
Deutsche Telekom filed a lawsuit against the local Federal Network Agency to protest preconditions for participation in a 5G mobile network frequency auction.
Parkimon, the mobility solution provider based in San Francisco, launched a parking application for mobile phones to help drivers to find parking places in the city.
Israeli services and commodities' exports reached a record-high of $111B in the year of 2018, the Ministry of Economy and the Export Institute stated.
The Russian value-added tax rate was officially risen to 20% from 18%, according to the law signed by the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore, stated that the state's economy expanded steadily at 3.3% in 2018, close to that of the prior year and exceeding expectations.
The Purchasing Managers' Index for the Chinese manufacturing sector was registered at 49.4 in December, down from 50.0 in the prior month, the NBS stated.
The Albanian economy expanded 4.5% in the third quarter of last yea, the strongest quarterly increase since 2011, the country's Prime Minister stated.