On Friday, Mexico's Undersecretary of Finance and Public Credit Gabriel Yorio said that the Mexican government had taken a range of approaches to reduce the impact of the coronavirus on the economy.
The UK digital bank Tandem raised $78M from investors, such as Qatar Investment Authority, and also bought a lender helping consumers to buy solar panels.
Lufthansa stated that its group of airlines is set to slash capacity 50% in the following weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak, making deeper cuts affecting all traffic areas.
Finnair announced that demand, measured in RPK or revenue passenger kilometres, fell 1.7% in February year-on-year, as the coronavirus outbreak affected Asian travellers.
India's automaker Tata Motors warned of weaker profit at its car brand Jaguar Land Roverfor the fiscal year, as coronavirus outbreak hit Chinese sales.
The US TV station operator Gray Television made an offer to buy larger peer Tegna for nearly $8.5B, including debt, sources familiar with the matter stated.
Starbucks Corp stopped accepting customers' reusable cups to prevent the coronavirus spread, though the company will still provide the promised discount for cup owners.
Tesla has received approval by the Chinese government for a sale of its longer-range Model 3 vehicles made in China, the MIIT announced on Friday.
On Friday, Samsung Electronics stated it would temporarily shift some of its smartphone output from South Korea to Vietnam due to a couple of tech giant's Korean employees tested positive for coronavirus, prompting it to close a plant.
Nokia drew a €500M Research and Development loan from the EIB (European Investment Bank) on February 24, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission's statement.
HSBC Holdings PLC sent home over 100 of its London staff after one of the employees tested positive for coronavirus, following a major virus outbreak across the globe.
On Friday, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways announced it was closing the cabin crew base based in Vancouver, cutting 147 jobs as a result of the ongoing business review.
PetroChina suspended some of its liquified natural gas and pipeline gas shipments as the coronavirus outbreak hit the demand, the company announced.
Walmart's Flipkart is facing a further anti-trust investigation in India, following a request to the country's competition watchdog to look into the company's possible abuse of its dominant position in the e-commerce.
AT&T Inc is partnering with Alphabet's Google Cloud over the 5G edge computing technologies usage designed to help clients boost speed and raise security by running their applications closer to the end users.
Finland's Nokia Oyj has signed a partnership with Intel to accelerate its shift to the 5G technology, following the Finnish group's announcement of a similar cooperation deal with Marvell Technology.
On Thursday, HP Inc has rejected a raised offer by Xerox Holdings worth about $35B, claiming that the bid still undervalued the PC maker.
The US stocks plunged over 3% on Thursday due to revived fears about the coronavirus, bringing global financial companies' shares down, with JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America Corp shares slipping 4.9% and 5.1% respectively.
On Thursday, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has agreed to cut crude oil supply by an additional 1.5M barrels a day in the Q2 of 2020.
Portugal's TAP has cancelled about 1000 flights scheduled for this month and April, as fears of the coronavirus hit demand. The company said in a statement on Thursday.
On Thursday, Wall Street's main indexes edged lower, as the spread of the coronavirus hit California. The benchmark US Treasury yield hit a record low.
On Thursday, the Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that Russia is fiscally ready to cope with a crude oil price drop.
On Thursday, Finnair announced it stepped up the efforts to reach its target of becoming carbon neutral by 2045, adding it would start by halving the company's net emissions by 2025.
OPEC agreed to trim the oil output by extra 1.5M barrels per day in the current year's Q2 to support prices hit by the outbreak of coronavirus across the globe, it stated on Thursday.