Iran reported that the country's security forces killed two alleged "terrorists" in a shootout around the city of Chabahar in the southeastern Iran and arrested five others.
The US central bank, as widely expected, voted on Wednesday to raise interest rates for the second time in three months by another quarter point to between 1 and 1.25%.
The US State Secretary Rex Tillerson reported on Wednesday that the White House was committed to the One-China policy and would sustain its commitment to Taiwan as well.
On Wednesday, Barclays kept its official US GDP Q2 growth forecast unchanged at 2.0% despite the release of weak retail sales and inflation figures.
Morgan Stanley reported on Tuesday that it was developing a digital mortgage application tool to facilitate the home loan process.
The EIA reported that US crude oil inventories dropped 1.7M barrels in the week ended June 9, following the prior week's rise of 3.3M barrels but falling behind analysts' expectations for a 2.3M-barrel decline.
The Census Bureau reported that business inventories in the United States fell 0.2% in April after a similar drop in March, whereas analysts anticipated a decline of 0.1%.
The Conference Board reported that its Leading Economic Index for the UK dropped 0.3% in April, following the preceding month's upwardly revised fall of 0.1%.
Jessica Rosenworcel is likely to become the FCC commissioner for the second time as the US President Donald Trump had put her forward as a candidate on Tuesday.
The Bureau of Labour Statistics reported on Wednesday that the United States' core consumer price index remained unchanged at 0.1% in May, while analysts anticipated a slight rise to 0.2%.
On Wednesday, Qatar Airways stated that the majority of its network was unaffected by the airspace restrictions imposed by its neighbour Gulf states.
The Census Bureau reported on Wednesday that retail sales in the United States dropped 0.3% in May from the prior month's unrevised 0.4% reading, missing analysts' expectations for a 0.1% gain.
No less than six people, including children, are reported to be dead, while 74 others got injured as a 24-story high-rise block burst into flames in the central London on Wednesday.
According to the ONS, the unemployment rate in the United Kingdom remained unchanged at 4.6% in April, meeting analysts' expectations.
The UK Prime Minister and the Northern Ireland's DUP renewed their talks on May's minority government support on Wednesday, despite the anticipated delay.
On Wednesday, Finland's security service raised its level of threat as it became aware of some terrorism-related plans in the country.
The future head of the Philippine's central bank Nestor Espenilla has expressed concern about the growing credit amount in the country and announced that it is being closely watched.
Klaas Knot the chief of the Dutch central bank and a critic of the ECB bond buying scheme announced on Wednesday that the impact on inflation of the 2.3 trillion asset purchasing has been a disappointment.
The British PM Theresa May designated the Brexit supporter Stephen Barclay as the UK Economic Secretary for the Ministry of Finance, a government spokeswoman reported.
On Wednesday, Qatar made a decision to call out its troops from the Djibouti-Eritrea border amid a diplomatic crisis it faced with some of its Gulf neighbour states.
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, an undersea earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hit the Mexican Southwest Pacific coast on Wednesday.
Destatis reported on Wednesday that the German CPI plunged 0.2% in May, following the same fall in the preceding month, while analysts anticipated a jump of 0.5%.
The number of casualties in Bangladesh rose to 134 on Wednesday after a series of landslides caused by heavy rains hit the country's hillside homes.
The US fashion retailer J. Crew Group unveiled the terms of its debt restructuring plan, cutting in a half of its nearly $567M in bonds and extending the company's maturity by two years.