The US President Donald Trump is anticipated to declare on Tuesday that the United States are withdrawing from the Iran deal, after European officials struggled to persuade him the opposite.
Snap, the Snapchat owner, stated it had hired Amazon's veteran Tim Stone as the company's new Chief Financial Officer to replace Andrew Vollero after his resignation.
On Tuesday, Megafon, one of the largest Russia's mobile phone operators, announced it would form a digital joint venture with Rostec and Gazprombank by cutting its stake in the Internet firm Mail.ru.
The US President Donald Trump is set to announce his decision on the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, ruling whether to pull out from it or stay in, working with the EU allies.
The leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un made a visit to China this week to meet the country's President Xi Jinping in the leaders' second encounter in the last two months amid their intention to mend ties.
The EU antitrust regulators are set to rule on whether to clear Fortum's bid to buy 47% of the Germna peer Uniper from the energy firm E.ON by June 15, the same date as set for the Comcast-Sky deal.
The semiconductor testing firm Cohu is planning to acquire its rival Xcerra in a deal valued at $796M, after the US security panel had blocked Xcerra's takeover by China's state-baked fund two months ago.
The credit-monitoring company Equifax announced on Monday it had provided the US Congressional committees with additional details over the data breached in a cyber-security incident last September.
The European antitrust regulator is set to rule on Comcast-Sky $30B deal by June 15, after the US cable operator had filed for the EU approval on May 7.
The United States' withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal could have ‘inevitable harmful consequences', a Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
The Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan has been elected as the country's Prime Minister with 59 lawmakers in the Parliament backing his candidacy.
On Monday, the base metals firm Nevsun Resources has rejected a C$1.5B takeover bid made by Canada's miners, Euro Sun Mining and Lundin Mining, disappointing the bidders.
Iraq's Kurdistan is planning to hold its regional elections on September 30, the region's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani announced on Tuesday.
Alibaba Group has acquired the Pakistani e-commerce platform Daraz Group from Rocket Internet, saying the unit would continue operating under the same brand after the acquisition.
On Tuesday, Takeda Pharmaceutical agreed the $62B takeover of the London-listed Shire, after Japan's firm raised the cash amount in its bid to $30.33, seeking to secure a recommendation.
According to Reuters news agency, the activist investing company ValueAct Capital Partners has taken $1.2B stake in Citigroup, sending the US bank's shares up 1.5% on the news.
Canada's NorthWest Healthcare Properties has bought rights to 10% stake in Healthscope, about two weeks after Australia's hospital operator received a $3.1B takeover bid from the Australian private equity firm's consortium.
Walmart is expected to announce its deal to acquire a majority stake in Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce firm, before this week's end, making the US retail giant's deal the largest acquisition of a business.
On Tuesday, Sweden's fast-growing financial technology firm iZettle stated it is planning a listing on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange as soon as this year, becoming one of the largest EU fintech firms to list so far.
The Customs General Administration of China reported on Tuesday that China's trade surplus with the US had increased to $22.19B in April, compared to $15.43B in March.
Oil prices remained at their highest level since 2014 early today prior to the US President Donald Trump's announcement about a possible withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
Chinese imports and exports grew at a faster-than-expected pace in April with a rise of 21.5% and 12.9%, respectively, thus leaving the country's trade surplus at $28.78B.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand reported on Tuesday that its inflation expectation for the second quarter of 2018 is 2.01%, while the average one-year expectation is 1.80%.
Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso stated that the country is set to host a meeting of G20 financial leaders in western Japan over June 8-9 in 2019.