China's securities watchdog, the CSRC, imposed a record amount of fines totalling $1.55B in 2018 to prevent financial risks and punish market irregularities.
China's population is expected to reach its peak of 1.44B in ten years and start a prolonged period of decline in 2030, the report showed.
The US service sector revealed solid expansion in business activity in last year's December 2018, though experienced the weakest growth for in three months, the IHS Markit stated.
The Canadian jobless rate stood at 5.6% in the month of December with an increase of 9.3K net new positions, Statistics Canada reported.
The two biggest smartphone makers supply the majority of the firms' own modem chips to help devices connect to wireless networks, Qualcomm stated.
The growth tendency in property prices in China was no more a certainty as state housing values' controls come into effect, the report stated.
The US automaker Ford announced the decision to recall nearly 953K vehicles worldwide, as some Takata air bag inflators could explode.
Germany's unemployment rate dropped to its record low in 2018, while the number of jobless people declined more than anticipated, the BA report showed.
On Saturday, the Second Criminal Appeals Chamber of Peru rejected a release appeal submitted by the country's Popular Force party leader Keiko Fujimori.
The President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday questioned the prospects of merger between American Boeing and domestic plane producer Embraer.
The President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen on Saturday called international community to help defending the country's democracy amid increasing threat from China.
A senior Iranian energy official stated on Saturday that the government managed to find new oil purchasers despite American sanctions.
Foreign investors contributed $1.5B to the Mongolian economy in the first 11 months of 2018, an increase of 25.6% from 2017, the Finance Ministry says.
Iraq is fully committed to the OPEC production cutoff agreement which is enforced from the beginning of 2019, the Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir al-Ghadhban says.
Sri Lanka plans to attract $3B of foreign direct investment in 2019, the Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama says.
The Mexican government suspended the construction work of new major airport in Texcoco worth $13.3B, the Transport Minister Javier Jimenez Espriu says.
The number of tourists who visited Kenya increased 7.5% in the first nine months of 2018, compared to the same period the previous year, the Kenya Tourism Board reports.
The IHS Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index increased slightly to 51.2 in December from a 28-month low of 50.4 in November, a report shows.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to improve coordination in Syria, the Kremlin reports.
Tunisia and France signed a $136M bilateral cooperation deal on electricity distribution, the Director of French Agency for Development in Tunisia Gilles Chausse says.
On Friday, global equity markets edged higher after stronger-than-expected US employment data report eased some economic fears.
On Friday, the USDA agency said that it would delay some key US agriculture reports due to the ongoing government shutdown.
The United States and China representatives will meet on Monday and Tuesday in Beijing to discussion trade, as both countries are under pressure to end the trade war.
On Friday, the US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that he would not resign from his position even if the US President Donald Trump asked him to do so.