Germany is accelerating its efforts to protect its key companies from the Chinese investors by acquiring a stake in the high-voltage energy network operator and seeking to veto the machine-tooling business sale.
Thomson Reuters's Financial and Risk division is set to be renamed Refinitiv after the US private equity group Blackstone acquires a controlling stake in the unit.
According to the Information news outlet, the Chinese firm Hillhouse Capital Group has entered talks over a potential purchase of Yum China Holdings, KFC restaurants' operator in the country.
South African firm Naspers is thinking over listing some of the e-commerce ventures in New York and Hong Kong, as it seeks to narrow a discount between its Tencent stake and market value.
Hyatt Hotels, the US global hospitality firm, has expressed its interest in the Spanish bid target NH Hotel group, escalating a takeover fight with Thailand's Minor International.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said it was the right decision to block a bitcoin ETF proposed by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss due to the fear of possible manipulation.
The British company BP plc is set to purchase oil and gas assets from the US-based BHP Billiton for $10.5B, thus expanding the company's operations in the United States.
Chinese market watchdog stated it was still open to talks over the scrapped Qualcomm's takeover worth $44B of NXP Semiconductors to resolve antitrust concerns that halted the deal.
On Thursday, the software developer Atlassian stated it would leave the chat-platform business unit by selling team-chat tools Hipchat Cloud and Stride to the privately-held Slack Technologies.
On Friday, Ageas Chief Executive Bart De Smet stated that no approach had been made by China's Fosun to bid for the Belgian insurer.
Wells Fargo & Co is considering to sell the US bank's Eastdil Secured real-estate unit, a report by the Wall Street Journal showed on Thursday.
Chesapeake Energy is planning a sale of its Utica natural gas acreage shale stake to the privately-held Encino Acquisition Partners in a deal valued at around $2.0B.
Facebook is acquiring the Israeli messaging company Redkix, as it seeks the firm to join its Workplace team to assist companies collaborate.
Samsung Display announced on Friday that its newly developed bendable and unbreakable screen has successfully passed safety testings of Underwriters Laboratories and received a corresponding American certification.
In a statement released on Friday SoftBank said it will combine efforts with Paytm in order to develop a mobile payments system for Japanese market via a joint venture with Yahoo.
The North Korean state news agency KCNA wrote on Friday that Ri Yong Gil was appointed as the new Chief of the General Staff, thus representing another change the country's leadership.
The Finance Minister of Japan Taro Aso stated on Friday he planned to use the upcoming G20 meeting in Osaka in 2019 to concentrate on identification of problems in the world economy.
Oil prices strengthened on Thursday for the third consecutive trading session after trade tension between the EU and the United States eased.
Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Thursday signed into law an amendment clearing the way for the ruling party to announce the next chief of the Supreme Court despite objections by opposition parties.
On Thursday, EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier turn down key elements of UK's new trade proposals even as Britain's Brexit secretary Dominic Raab said he believes a deal will be reached by October.
On Thursday, Portugal's Foreign Affairs Minister Augusto Santos Silva told Britain it should consider keeping its doors open to "waiters and construction workers" after it leaves the EU.
On Thursday, European shares climbed to a six-week high as expectations of a breakthrough between EU-US talks boosted automakers.
On Thursday, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan announced his run for the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives if the Republican party keeps the majority after November mid-term elections.
Terra Firma, the private equity investor, agreed on a sale of its Italy's solar portfolio RTR in a deal with the infrastructure fund F2i valued at $1.5B, the company stated on Thursday.