The US Treasury is revising licenses for Airbus and Boeing to sell jets to Iran, Steven Mnuchin said, showing intention to increase sanctions on Syria, Iran and North Korea.
Having met with Pope Francis earlier today, the US President Donald Trump landed in Brussels ahead of tomorrow's summit with other leaders of NATO member sates.
At their latest policy meeting, the Federal Reserve officials said they saw the beginning of the Fed's massive balance sheet wind-down over the course of 2017.
General Motors said it was going to reduce the number of employees in its international HQ in Singapore to around 50 people by the end of 2017.
The FOMC meeting minutes released today revealed the Fed policymakers appeared cautious about policy tightening and agreed that they should postpone raising rates.
German, France are set to accept US plan for a bigger NATO role in the fight over against Islamic State, but insist the gesture is purely symbolic for the US, diplomats revealed.
OPEC and non-OPEC producers are set to discuss an option of extending oil output cuts by another three months until June 2018, Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak revealed.
The US President arrived in Brussels ahead of his Thursday talks with the EU institutions and other NATO leaders.
The US Democrats requested Deutsche Bank to examine the US President Donal Trump's accounts for any links with Russia.
The National Association of Realtors reported that existing-home sales in the US fell to a seasonally adjusted annualised pace of 5.57K units last month, compared to March's 5.70K unit pace.
The National Association of Realtors reported that existing-home sales in the US fell to a sesonally adjusted annualised pace of 5.57K units last month, compared to March's 5.70K unit pace.
IKEA, Sweden's flatpack furniture giant, appointed Jesper Brodin, the Managing Director of the company's Swedish unit, as its new Chief Executive Officer.
The EIA reported on Wednesday that US crude oil inventories dropped 4.4M barrels last week, following the prior week's fall of 1.8M barrels and surpassing expectations for a 2.4M barrel decline.
As markets expected, the Bank of Canada left its benchmark Overnight Rate at a record low of 0.50% at its meeting on Wednesday.
Dubai is planning to create a $1B investment fund aimed on shipping as it seeks to develop the maritime sector of the Gulf city and overcome a global industrial recession.
On Wednesday, the Algerian Presidency replaced the Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal with the ex-Housing Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune amid the Cabinet reshuffle.
Pope Francis, at the highly expected first meeting with Donald Trump, called the US President to be a peacemaker, presenting him a small sculptured oil tree saying it symbolised "peace".
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister of Nepal Prachanda stepped down from his post right ahead of the final round of domestic elections following a power-sharing agreement with Nepal's Congress Party.
According to the French Minister's statement on Wednesday, a suicide bomber who left 22 people dead at Manchester's concert is connected to the Islamic State and has presumably visited Syria.
Tiffany & Co shares plunged 5.6% to $87.95 on Wednesday following its lower-than-expected Q1 sales report; the result caused by lower expenses of the company's domestic customers and tourists in the Americas market.
General Electric signed a $267M joint venture deal with the Dussur industrial development firm, aiming to build gas turbines in the Saudi Arabian city of Dammam.
On Wednesday, the UK Parliament announced that it was immediately closed to any public visits amid raised security threat level on the back of the Manchester suicide bombing.
On Wednesday the Syrian military announced that it had gotten rid of Daesh's "minister of war" and other long standing members of the group in an operation near Aleppo.
The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has announced on Wednesday that he is not ruling out placing all of the country under martial law, if the extremist movements spread from the south.