On Friday, Canada's Precision Drilling announced it would acquire its smaller competitor Trinidad Drilling in a deal worth C$1.03, beating the Ensign Energy Services' hostile bid for the firm.
The online furniture retailer Westwing is planning to price its IPO at €26-€29 per share, the upper-half of its price range, compared to the initial range of €23-€29, a bookrunner organising the listing stated.
On Friday, Russia's farming conglomerate Rusagro stated it would acquire a controlling interest of Solnechnye Producty, owned by Quartlink Holding Limited for an undisclosed amount.
Shares of Intu Properties surged over 37% this Friday, as a consortium including Brookfield Asset Management and Britain's billionaire John Whittaker expressed their interest into the shopping centre owner.
On Friday, Unilever announced that they are cancelling their plans to move the company's headquarters to the Netherlands.
On Friday, as the report explaining mirror trading at Danske Bank was released, the bank's stock was downgraded by Credit Suisse and immediately plummeted to a four year low level.
Banijay, the French TV group, is considering a potential bid to acquire Endemol Shine, the Dutch distribution and production firm, after it had been put up on a sale for $3.45B.
France's retailer Casino has denied a press report for the second time during this week that it hired a financial advisor with intention to sell its Brazil's supermarket unit GPA.
A consortium including the Canadian Brookfield Asset Management and Britain's billionaire John Whittaker is thinking over a potential offer for Intu Properties, the $2.6B worth shopping centre owner.
Germany's investment group Haniel received an antitrust approval to sell a 7.3% stake in the retailer Metro AG to a Czech-Slovak investor, the company stated on Thursday.
China's tech giant Tencent and the private equity group KKR are set to invest up to $175M for the minority stake in the Philippine PLDT's financial technology unit, both companies announced yesterday.
On Thursday, the holding group of the Italian Benetton family, Edizione, announced it had sold 20% of its stake in Spanish tower firm Cellnex to the Abu Dhabi fund ADIA's unit.
Canada's social media analytics platform Hootsuite is considering a sale that could potentially value the company at over $750M, sources familiar with the situation reported.
On Thursday, the newspaper Tronc announced it would rename itself back as Tribune Publishing, effective October 9 and was set to trade under the new TPCO ticker, starting October 10.
Poland and Hungary announced on Thursday they filed a claim to the European Court of Justice to dispute new more rigid regulations of the European Union on the employment labourers from low-income EU states.
On Friday morning, the value of largest Chinese hardware companies sufficiently decreased, including a 23% drop of Lenovo, amid reports that American companies' systems had been penetrated with chips of Chinese intelligence agents.
According to report published by Bloomberg, Wells Fargo & Co is planning to issue its first after-crisis $441M prime mortgage bond without state's backing.
Crude oil prices increased by 50 cents or 0.7% on Friday, reaching $74.83 a barrel, as traders concentrated on the upcoming supply tightening caused by American sanctions against Iran.
Samsung Electronics stated quarterly operating profit is likely to surge by a fifth to reach a record high, with the chip unit supported by robust demand from data centres.
Costco Wholesale quarterly sales hardly beat analysts' forecasts, as growth in online business weakened, while gross margins declined on higher investments and rising costs.
Inflation-adjusted real wages of Japanese workers fell in August for the first time in four-month period in a setback to expectations that consumer spending is likely to accelerate and support economic expansion.
The Japanese household spending increased markedly in August at the strongest annual pace in three-year period, as bigger bonuses fuelled consumption.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait provided $2.3B to Jordan to support the country's economy, a statement by the Ministry of Finance shows.
Morocco and Russia hold the 7th session of the Joint Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation Committee in Rabat to strengthen cooperation between the countries.