On Saturday, the US President Donald Trump announced that John Kelly, White House's Chief of Staff, would leave his position at this year's end.
Julius Baer, the Swiss private bank, has entered talks with Banco Santander over transferring its Venezuela business book to the Spanish bank amid reorganisation of Baer's operations in Latin America.
Germany's car parts producer Continental is thinking over acquisitions of software makers after its Powertrain unit initial public offering, scheduled for the next year's second half, the company's CEO Wolfgang Schaefer announced on Saturday.
JSW, the European biggest coking coal producer, is seeking to raise its output by 2.5M-3M tonnes a year by acquisitions, which is far more than its current strategy to increase production growth to 18M tonnes by 2030.
The new leader of the German Christian Democrat party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Saturday attempted to bind the party together by promoting a rival.
During the weekend the President of Iran made another statement in regards to the US sanctions on Iran. Namely, the President announced that a deluge of refugees, attacks and drugs is bound for the West unless the sanctions are cancelled.
A top negotiator of the Iran aligned Houthi group in Yemen announced that the main port of the country should be made into a neutral zone under the supervision of the UN.
On Saturday, the Work and Pensions Secretary of the United Kingdom Amber Rudd floated the Brexit Plan B, which has been developed by Theresa May's cabinet.
During 2018 global bond and equity markets traded with high volatility, with no asset class providing a return of at least five percent, causing losses to fund managers. Although, managers surveyed by Reuters revealed on Saturday that they expect a rally in 2019.
On Saturday, BMW named Alejandro Vukovitch as the new head of the BMW's self-driving car department. He will assume his post in January 2019.
The Supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the country's central bank to adopt measures to raise the value of national currency, the Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati stated on Saturday.
On Saturday, the China's Foreign Ministry urged Canadian authorities to free Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in order to avoid serious consequences.
The President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa stated on Saturday that the new minimum wage amounting to 3.5$ per hour or 247$ per month would take effect from 1 January.
On Saturday, thousands of Hungarians went to the streets of Budapest to protest against draft law, which presupposes that employers could ask employees to do overtime work up to 400 hours per year.
The Germany's EVG leader Torsten Westphal stated on Saturday that rail workers would conduct a number of strikes during the Christmas holidays amid failure of negotiations with rail operator Deutsche Bahn.
The President of United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan ruled on Saturday that women must represent half of its Advisory Council.
According to Chinese customs data, exports in November rose by 5.4% on a year-to-year basis only, thus showing falling both domestic and international demand.
The UK Work and Pensions Minister Amber Rudd stated on Saturday that Theresa May's Brexit deal was the most acceptable option, yet there might be a need for plan B.
Akorn's Chief Executive Officer Raj Rai is planning to retire after the drugmaker failed to salvage its merger deal with the German company Fresenius, Akorn announced late on Friday.
On Friday, the Dutch Cabinet proposed a draft law that would grant a right to listed firms to take a 250-day grace period on considering an offer of hostile takeover.
The former US basketball player, Ulysses Lee "Junior" Bridgeman, is likely to buy Sports Illustrated magazine, being the first to lead among potential buyers, from the American media company Meredith for around $150M.
The German Finance Ministry is looking at possible merger scenarios between Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank, as it seeks to ensure that the EU largest economy has a decent lender capable of supporting its firms abroad.
India's Tata Steel and Germany's Thyssenkrupp are nearing a decision on picking the leader of their planned EU steel joint venture, after it had been postponed due to the CEO change at the German industrial conglomerate.
The chat-service company Slack Technologies has selected Goldman Sachs Group, the investment bank, to lead the firm's initial public offering planned for the next year, sourced reported.