Hong Kong's NWS Holdings agreed to acquire FTLife Insurance in a deal worth $2.8B with China's financial holding company JD Group.
Green Growth Brands, the US cannabis retailer, announced it would launch a hostile bid to take over the pot producer Aphria, valuing the firm at $2.06B.
According to sources familiar with the matter, Nissan Motor Co is considering to produce in China 30K cars less than initially planned amid plunge of demand.
On Friday, Jean-Pierre Thomas took the seat of Matthias Warnig and became the new board Chairman of the world largest aluminum producer Rusal.
The Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak stated on Thursday that one of the main reasons behind current oil price volatility was the increasing American protectionism.
On Thursday, the Mexican government said it would engage military forces to counter fuel theft and simultaneously pursue a tougher anti-corruption policy.
China's service exports amounted 33.3% of the total service trade in the period of January to November, data from the MOC revealed.
Nissan Motor announced plans to cut car production in China by 30K units in the following months, as global automakers grapple with weakening demand in the car market.
The Japanese industrial production contracted in November and partially reversed the prior month's gain, while retail sales' growth weakened sharply amid increasing risks dragging and threatening the export-reliant economy.
Australia's mining firm Rio Tinto stated that it does not anticipate to cut positions next year even though it deployed automated heavy-haul trains to diminish costs.
Saudi Arabia will lift a travel ban on Lebanon after a Lebanese government will be formed, the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari says.
China's service exports increased by 14.7% to around $230B in the first 11 months of 2018, the Ministry of Commerce data shows.
Zimbabwe still faces economic challenges despite increasing investment in the country, the President Emmerson Mnangagwa says.
Government, parliament and courts should work together to ensure economic growth in Ukraine in 2019, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says.
Andry Rajoelina won a presidential election in the second round, Madagascar's Independent National Election Commission reports.
The embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Syrian capital Damascus has been reopened on Thursday for the first time in seven years.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud initiated a cabinet reshuffle on Thursday, the Saudi Press Agency reports.
The US President Donald Trump returned to the United States after an unexpected recent visit to Germany and Iraq.
On Thursday, crude oil prices fell to an eighteen-month low, as concerns on oversupply and worries over stumbling global economy weighed heavily on market prices.
On Thursday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it would operate on a partial basis and reduced staff due to the ongoing government shutdown.
US shares declined by 1% on Thursday, led by energy stocks, a day after Dow Jones Industrial record-breaking surge.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has appointed Ibrahim al Assaf, the former Saudi Arabian Finance Minister, as the country's Foreign Minister.
China's state oil giant Sinopec suspended two key officials at its Unipec trading arm, after the company faced losses, sources reported on Thursday.
Tesla has set up a new financial leasing unit in China amid latest sign the US EV maker is trying to accelerate its push into the Asian country.