The US trade deficit slightly declined to $43.7B in March from the preceding month's upwardly revised deficit of $43.8B due to broad decreases in exports and imports.
Parts of the ECB policy guidance are likely to change over the time as growth in the Euro zone strengthens, the ECB Chief Economist Peter Praet said.
France, Spain, Portugal and Italy urged the European Commission to review economic models and set economic growth as top priority when considering the EU countries' budgets.
The European Union proposed to ease its derivatives regulations to save billions of Euros for pension funds, as it aims to boost economy after the UK decided to quit the bloc.
US factory orders rose 0.2% in March, following an upwardly revised 1.2% in February and falling behind expectations of 0.4% increase, the Census Bureau revealed on Thursday.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to 238K last week, following the prior week's 257K and topping (surpassing) expectations for a decline to 246K.
The Czech Republic Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka decided to delay his and the cabinet's resignation amid his intention to devise a new plan for the government.
On Thursday, France's presidential nominee Emmanuel Macron accused his rival candidate Marine Le Pen of spreading fake news about him about having a veiled offshore fund.
Germany's local intelligence bureau stated it expected more cyber attacks aimed against the country's authorities and politicians before the election on September 24.
Google agreed to pay $334M to settle a tax controversy with the Italian government to cover the period from 2002 to 2015.
The network hardware maker Nokia is eager to continue job slashing in Finland and cut down about 200 positions amid company's strong decline in demand in the world network market.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation reported on Thursday that the world prices of food plunged 1.8% to 168 points over the month of April.
The UBS Group AG might increase the payouts the company is making to its shareholders, if the legal and regulatory costs of the company decrease in the future.
The husband of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, is stepping down from carrying on with his royal duties later this year. The decision comes as no surprise, as the prince is 95 years old.
Markit reported on Thursday that UK services activity rose to 55.8 in April, while analysts anticipated a slight drop to 54.6.
The German automaker Volkswagen resumed its diesel vehicles sales in the US last month after the emissions scandal that led to company's sales bar of 11K new 2015 diesel cars.
On Thursday, Amazon started to deliver fresh groceries to their Prime members in Berlin and Potsdam who would be able to choose from 85K of products, including coffee, bread and chocolate from 25 domestic stores.
Shell exceeded analysts' expectations by posting its revenue of $71.8B for the first quarter, beating the estimates of $70.62B.
On Wednesday, Facebook-owned messenger WhatsApp was hit by a massive outage during the next few hours that led to inability for users to access the application.
According to the Spanish Employment Ministry, the number of unemployed Spaniards fell 129.3K in April, exceeding analysts' expectations for a 78.2K drop.
On Wednesday, Google users became victims of the spam campaign's malicious link to Google Docs that obtained all the private information without using the users' passwords.
The European Union intends to persuade the US President Donald Trump to stick to the Paris climate agreement after Trump's advisers warned of legal issues in case the White House stayed in.
The President of the Asian Development Bank, Takehiko Nakao, is urging regional economies to not stray away from maintaining free trade for the purpose of continued growth.
The next leader of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, on Thursday announced that she will heal the social and political divides and return the city to its "normal course."