On Tuesday, Chile's President Sebastian Pinera announced about his plans to meet the CEOs of Alphabet and Amazon.com next week, seeking to enlist the firms' support for helping the country make technological progress.
The interior ministry of Germany has announced that agreements are being prepared to return migrants to their first registration of asylum countries.
As global stocks declined on Wednesday, various financial media sources continued to blame trade war worries for the decline.
The US carmaker General Motors reported a 0.7% surge in its China Q2 sales growth rate on Wednesday to 858,344 cars, compared to the last year's same period.
On Wednesday, China's HNA Group stated its co-founder and co-chairman Wang Jian died on July 3 during the French business trip, following a serious injury he had got by a fall.
China's court has banned Micron Technology from selling 26 of its chip products in the country amid a patent infringement probe with the Taiwanese firm United Microelectronics Corp, UMC stated.
On Wednesday, Indonesia has temporarily imposed a ban on Tik Tok, the Chinese video app, claiming it contained inappropriate content, pornography and blasphemy.
Brookstone, the gift and gadget chain is considering some restructuring options, including a US bankruptcy amid plunging sales due to a downturn at retailers across the US.
The US laundry machine vendor CSC ServiceWorks is considering a sale, which could bring the value of the private equity-owned firm in excess of $3.0B, including debt, sources reported.
PSA Group is seeking a partial sale of its Opel affiliate's research and development unit, in the carmaker's efforts to restore profitability in the loss-making arm, Le Monde reported.
Varde Partners is weighing the options for WiZink, its Spanish online bank, including the IPO next year, three sources familiar with the issue reported.
On Tuesday, BP and ConocoPhillips agreed to swap their assets with the UK oil giant to raise its stake in North Sea development and the US peer to grow in Alaska.
Britain's shop prices declined less in June than in May, though shoppers could take some solace from that inflation of food prices did not accelerate, a survey revealed on Wednesday.
Uber Technologies was in talks with its rival Careem to combine ride-hailing services in the Middle East, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Chile's President Sebastian Pinera stated that he intends to meet with the CEOs of Alphabet and Amazon.com next week to enlist their support for helping the country to make technological progress.
Samsung Electronics is expected to report the smallest growth in profit in more than a year in the Q2r, as lacklustre premium Galaxy smartphones sales overshadow highly profitable chip business.
On Tuesday, the major trading partners of the US including China, Japan and EU expressed their concern at the World Trade Organisation about US tariff measures against imported parts and cars.
On Tuesday, the newly elected President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claimed that the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to visit Mexico in the nearest time.
On Tuesday, the leader of German Social Democrats Andrea Nahles claimed that German governing coalition was making a significant progress in talks regarding establishing refugee migration centres.
On Tuesday, top US carmakers Ford Co, General Motors Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV reported about stronger sales of cars in the US in June, especially SUVs and trucks.
On Tuesday, French carmaker PSA issued a statement that it is planning to launch a car-sharing service in the French capital of Paris together with Renault to replace car sharing service Autolib.
On Tuesday, a head of retail industry lobby group FoodDrinkEurope, Mella Frewen, claimed that a new strategic alliance between Tesco and Carrefour would help to expand the companies' own-label ranges.
On Tuesday, one of the European officials claimed that China had put pressure on the EU to sign a common pact against the US President Trump's trade policy.
On Tuesday, Google Cloud claimed that its Chief Operations Officer Diane Bryant, who previously was a head of Intel's data centre's unit, is leaving Alphabet Inc as Intel is looking for a new possible CEO.