It was revealed on Friday by Reuters that the United Kingdom would buy potential coronavirus vaccines from Novavax and Johnson & Johnson.
On Friday, the Euro Zone countries revealed an increase in trade surplus in June. However, GDP and employment had experienced a record fall.
During Friday's European trading hours, crude oil price benchmarks declined below the $45 level, as no new increases of demand were expected.
On Friday, global stock indices declined, as China reported lower than forecast economic data and European countries increased travel bans.
The Chinese Commerce Ministry has launched an anti-subsidy investigation on polyphenylene ether imports from the US.
According to data from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, China's real estate investment grew by 11.7% in July from a year earlier.
According to data from China's National Bureau of Statistics, the Chinese retail sales grew by 4.8% in July from a year earlier.
WeWork has obtained a $1.1B in new a financing from SoftBank Group, the company's Chief Financial Officer Kimberly Ross announced on Thursday.
Mazda Motor and Toyota Motor announced they would make an investment worth $2.3B in Alabama factory, their new joint venture, $830M more than initially announced on the 2018 plan.
Thomson Reuters acquired a cloud-based court evidence and document management platform CaseLine, the news provider reported, not disclosing any further terms of the deal.
Daimler agreed to the US settlements worth around $3.0B over the carmaker's software implemented in some of its vehicles that cheated diesel emissions tests.
Impossible Foods, the vegan burger maker, secured $200M in funding, nearly half a year after the firm raised its biggest investment ever among food start-ups, totalling funds attracted to $1.5B.
Twitter launched its long-awaited API software, almost a month after the company postponed the platform's roll-out due to hacks of some of its high-profile accounts.
Intel Corp revealed its new transistors and semiconductors technology could boost its next-round processors' performance by 20%.
US unemployment claims dropped to 963K last week, compared to the 1.19M reading the previous week, according to the Labor Department report published on Thursday.
As the weekly $600 boost is ending, the number of weekly unemployment claims dropped below 1M last week, the lowest number since the coronavirus pandemic began in the US.
Germany's marketplace organizer Deutsche Börse announced that the infamous payment services provider Wirecard AG will be removed from the DAX index in August.
On Thursday, the Nasdaq Composite Index increased as the market capitalization of Apple Inc is nearing $2 trillion, S&P 500 and Dow Jones remained flat.
JPMorgan has appointed Duncan Mann, Credit Suisse's investment banker, as its new financial sponsor coverage director in Australia, Reuters reported on Thursday.
On Thursday, Thyssenkrupp reported its steel unit had faced $1.2B worth operating losses in 2020, raising pressure on the conglomerate to sell or fix the division.
The oil giant Chevron made an investment in the nuclear fusion start-up Zap Energy, joining Italy's ENI and Norway's state oil group Equinor who had backed such companies in order to decrease their carbon footprint.
China's Lenovo Group reported a 31% surge in its Q1 net profit on Thursday, topping analysts' expectations, adding it was considering options of emerging from remote education and working.
During Thursday's European trading hours, stock indices declined, as a retracement back was strengthened by a drop in Airbus shares.
Cisco Systems is expecting its Q1 net profit and revenue below Wall Street's forecasts, laying out a new restructuring plan amid the COVID-19 crisis that forced the firm's clients to refrain from spending.