On Friday, the United States targeted Cuba's crude oil supply from Venezuela, in a new round of sanctions.
On Friday, Boeing Co said that it would cut its monthly production of Boeing 737 aircraft by 20%, in the wake of two deadly crashes.
According to a Reuters poll, economists expected the Turkish Central Bank to delay cutting interest rates until July.
According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank favoured merger over holding the company's structure.
On Friday, the World Bank executive board has approved the appointment of David Malpass, as the bank's next President.
The US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was looking at an economic penalty for drugs, coming from Mexico.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Algeria on Friday, to demand sweeping change to the country's outdated and opaque political apparatus.
On Friday, the UK opposition Labour Party urged Prime Minister Theresa May to change her EU withdrawal agreement.
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May wrote to the European Union on Friday, asking the EU leaders to delay Brexit until June 30.
According to sources with knowledge of the matter, Saudi Arabia has threatened to stop using the US Dollar to sell its crude oil, if the United States passes a law, exposing OPEC members.
Apple's streaming music service has overtook its rival Spotify Technology in terms of the US paid subscribers, Reuters reported, gaining 28M users by the February's end, compared with Spotify's 26M paid subscribers.
The financial investor KKR plans to launch an initial public offering for the Swiss software company SoftwareONE by hiring Rothschild investment bank, seeking for the group's listing to take place this year.
Boeing and its suppliers are reviewing possible scenarios for the company's future, which includes a slowdown in the planemaker's output of the 737 MAX aircraft, in case the jet model's grounding lasts for months.
Trade negotiators of the United States and China are set to continue talks next week via video conference, seeking to find a solution to the trade dispute that lasts about nine months, Larry Kudlow, the White House adviser stated on Friday.
Shares in the ride-hailing firm Lyft surged as much as 4% on Friday, after Citron Research advised its investors against shorting the stock, following the company's IPO debut last week.
Deutsche Bank announced on Friday it was ready to restructure its investment operations in the United States as Commerzbank's executives called for clarity during their merger talks.
On Friday, human rights and environmentalist groups announced they had filed a legal lawsuit against the Netherlands' Royal Dutch Shell, seeking the energy company to trim its fossil fuels reliance.
Production at Norsk Hydro, the Norwegian aluminium maker, has got back to almost normal, following a cyber-attack that took place last month, the group announced on Friday.
A deadline for the Italian largest railway firm Ferrovie dello Stato to release its rescue plan for the struggling airline Alitalia will be extended to April 30, as the group is still in negotiations with Delta Air Lines about the carrier's future.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the non-farm payrolls rose by 196K in March from the previous upwardly revised 33K reading, topping analysts' expectations for a 172K increase.
On Friday, Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority stated it would join the technical review panel regarding the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft conducted by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
Societe Generale is seeking to play the main role in the EU banking consolidation process, which might happen in case conditions appear to be wrong at the moment, its chairman stated on Friday.
The UK annual house price growth has cooled in early 2019, rising by 2.6%, compared with the previous reading of the same period last year.
The World Trade Organisation is set to issue the first-of-its-kind ruling on the "national security" dispute on Friday, according to various sources with the known with the matter.