Germany's consumer prices increased by an anticipated 1.8% on average this year, the highest annual gains since 2012, the Federal Statistical Office revealed on Friday.
Morocco's state-run phosphate firm OCP and ADNOC inked a long-term agreement to supply of granulated sulphur, local media said.
IAG, the owner of British Airways, announced that it is set to buy Niki, the insolvent Austria's holiday airline owned by Air Berlin, for €20M and provide extra liquidity of nearly €16.5M.
Gold extended growth to a three-month high, revealing the strongest annual increase since 2010 on the Greenback boost, political tensions and concerns over the Fed rate hike impact.
The US President Donald Trump urged the country's Postal Service to charge more for Amazon shipments, following his criticism over the online retail major.
India and the World Bank inked a $40M loan pact for a development project aimed to increase tourism-related benefits in the country's northern state.
The Central Bank of Egypt repaid nearly $2B in debt to the Africa's Export-Import Bank and other international bodies, state-owned media agency said.
Ukraine's grain exports are expected to decrease for the first time in the last five years in the 2017-2018 marketing year, according to the recent official forecast.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has sentenced William Browder to nine years in prison, charging him with tax evasion and deliberate bankruptcy.
China denied on Friday any accusations from the US President Donald Trump about its involvement in illicit oil sales to North Korea.
The German Constitutional Court has ruled to reject Volkswagen AG's bid to suspend a special judge who investigated the ‘Dieselgate' emissions scandal.
The London Stock Exchange has raised around £15B from initial public offerings in 2017, thus reaching a 63% increase from the previous year.
According to media reports, Russia had agreed to supply Turkey with S-400 missiles worth around $2.5B.
Gold was trading near the $1,303 mark on Friday, as political tensions and reduced concerns over US rate hikes allowed for its largest annual increase since 2010.
German inflation data was released on Friday. The data sets revealed that the German inflation has reached the highest level in a period of five years.
The stock market participants mostly celebrated on Friday, as the last day of trading began with almost nine trillion US Dollars gained throughout 2017.
On the final day of trading oil prices hit another record high, as they hit the highest price level seen since the middle of 2015.
In a twitter post on Friday the US President Donald Trump expressed his shock that the United States Post Office was charging too lite to deliver packages.
Huawei Technologies on Friday declared that income from overall operations and smartphone sales in 2017 have had the slowest growth compared with the past four years.
Goldman Sachs Group announced on Friday that the bank expects a decrease of five billion US Dollars to its fourth quarter earnings.
The Russians are planning to issue a bond that will help bring money back into the country as safeguard against future sanctions. Due to that reason demand for the bonds has risen sharply.
Bankers in Hong Kong are planning a round of new initial public offerings in the next two years, which is in sharp contrast to 2017, which was the worst equity raising year in a decade.
On Friday, the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen said the island's defence budget was set to grow steadily over years, as China's military ambitions are getting more apparent.
China's ban on ivory sales takes effect on Sunday, 31 December, a vital step towards curbing the slaughter of elephants.