On Friday, the Prime Minister Theresa May stated that the Brexit transition deal with the European Union was expected to be agreed in the following seven weeks.
A source familiar with the matter stated that India's PM Narendra Modi's scheme to prove half of the country's population with health insurance would cost about $1.72B in state and federal funding each year.
China's Alibaba invested $146M in India's online grocer BigBasket in a move to strengthen its position in the online retail space of the country and challenge its US rival Amazon.com.
Alphabet has named the board veteran John Hennessy as the company's new chairman to succeed its current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who is set to retire on February 15.
On Friday, Japanese regulator stated it had called on the cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck to fix its computer network's flaws ahead of hacker's theft of $530M of digital money the previous week.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has ordered Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. to pay a civil penalty of $70M for manipulation of the ISDAFIX interest-rate benchmark.
A statement released by the White House late on Thursday revealed the US President Donald Trump will host Australia's PM Malcolm Turnbull at the White House on 23 February 2018.
According to a Reuters poll of economists, US non-farm payrolls have presumably risen by 180K in January, pointing to the strong economic momentum in the beginning of the year.
On Friday, Sony said that Kenichiro Yoshida, its Chief Financial Officer, is going to replace Kazuo Hirai on the post of the firm's CEO starting from 1 April 2018.
Amazon reported an almost $2B profit, the largest in the company's history, amid strong sales and benefits from the US tax reform.
The US computer producer Dell and business software supplier VMware agreed to explore some options, including a possible merger of the companies.
The ABR reported on Friday that its PPI rose 0.6% on a quarterly basis in the Q4 of 2017, following the prior quarter's increase of 0.2% and surpassing expectations for a 0.4% gain.
The Bank of Japan reported that the country's monetary base climbed 9.7% year-over-year in January, after increasing 11.2% in December, whereas analysts anticipated a rise of 11.0%.
Google's parent Alphabet was in talks with Saudi Arabian state oil major Aramco over jointly creating a tech hub in the potential partner's country.
The US construction spending rose more than anticipated in December, as private construction projects received a record high investment, while government outlays rebounded solidly.
The Russian Finance Ministry is set to increase foreign currency purchases in February amid an increase in prices of oil.
France is set to start providing euro-dominated credits to Iran's buyers later in 2018, in a bid to keep trade outside the reach of the US sanctions.
Lowe's stated that the company would pay a $1,000 one-time bonus for more than 260K hourly employees in the US, as the firm was taking benefit of changes in the tax law.
After the Bank of England raised rates for the first time in a decade, investors were increasingly anticipating a rate hike in May or even two this year.
The Institute for Supply Management stated that the US manufacturing activity slowed in January due to a decrease in new orders.
General Motors announced that the company's total auto sales in Canada increased 12.4% over the course of January from a year ago.
United Parcel Service stated that the company's earnings in Q4 were affected by higher costs, as shipping volumes rose markedly through the holiday season.
Canadian manufacturing PMI was registered at nine-year high of 55.9 in January, owing to stronger increases in new orders and employment.
The Labour Department stated that the US non-farm productivity slumped seasonally adjusted 0.1% year-on-year in the December quarter of 2017.