The Austrian ruling coalition has aimed to reduce child benefit payments for those, who live abroad, adding that this move would not break the EU discrimination rules.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped above record 25,000-mark on Thursday, while other indexes climbed after private employers added 250,000 job positions in December.
Shares in Intel continued to slide and dropped to 3.4% on Wednesday, following a report saying its mobile and computer chips were vulnerable to hacking.
On Thursday, Sprint appointed the former Altice director Michel Combes as its new Chief Financial Officer, who has been set to become effective on January 6.
On Thursday, Chile's Lomas Bayas mine union rejected the final agreement from Glencore, starting a period of a government-facilitated mediation, as it seeks to avoid strike.
The number of applications for US unemployment benefits surged 3K to 245K in the week ending December 30, missing analysts' expectations for a 241K drop.
According to the data released by various banks and later compiled by Reuters, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs paid their top UK bankers on average $1.5M each in 2016.
On Thursday, the US second-largest pharmacy store Walgreens reported a drop of 22.1% in quarterly profit, primarily harmed by an impairment charge for funding Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals.
On Thursday, China voiced support for the general election in Cambodia, adding it believes the vote will be fair this year.
The People's Bank of China has issued fresh bond market regulation guidelines, adding all participants must "abide by liquidity and leverage ratio requirements".
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that the United States should not intervene in Iran's ‘domestic affairs'.
The US-based telecommunications provider AT&T plans to launch the fifth-generation network service in the US by late 2018, thus enhancing speed and response rate.
IHS Markit's Final Composite Purchasing Managers' Index for the Euro zone climbed to 58.1 in December, thus pointing to solid economic growth.
According to the latest data by Markit, the German final services PMI reached 55.8 in December, thus showing its fastest growth in two years.
The UK department store chain owner Debenhams representatives have announced that the annual earnings will be below forecast. As a result the stock price of the company plummeted 24%.
The Grand Mufti of Egypt has issued a official fatwa, which bans cryptocurrency. The reason for that is the fact that trading cryptocurrencies has been found by the clerics too similar to gambling.
Turkish authorities on Thursday scolded a US jury decision to convict a banker from Turkey. The banker has been found guilty in helping Iran evade sanctions.
Mongolian authorities have decided to delay until 2019 the completion of a $500 million airport project.
The number of vacancies for the US retail real estate inched up to 10% in the December quarter from a year ago, Reis stated in a release.
One of the largest US wireless carrier AT&T stated that it would launch 5G network service in many cities in the US later in 2018, as international wireless standards were finalised.
Canadian auto sales fell slightly in December for the second month in succession, though yearly sales rose 4.6% to breach 2M mark, with light trucks kept being the bestseller.
Tesla pushed back a production target for new Model 3 for the second time, causing investors' disappointment despite confirming "major progress" overcoming challenges.
Japan's manufacturing activity accelerated growth pace to the strongest in almost four years by the end of 2017, as new orders increased, a revised survey indicated.
Malaysian Second Finance Minister stated that the country is unlikely to meet the earlier balanced budget goal by 2020 and would need up to three years to reach the target.