The Central Bank of Egypt repaid nearly $2B in debt to the Africa's Export-Import Bank and other international bodies, state-owned media agency said.
Ukraine's grain exports are expected to decrease for the first time in the last five years in the 2017-2018 marketing year, according to the recent official forecast.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has sentenced William Browder to nine years in prison, charging him with tax evasion and deliberate bankruptcy.
China denied on Friday any accusations from the US President Donald Trump about its involvement in illicit oil sales to North Korea.
The German Constitutional Court has ruled to reject Volkswagen AG's bid to suspend a special judge who investigated the ‘Dieselgate' emissions scandal.
The London Stock Exchange has raised around £15B from initial public offerings in 2017, thus reaching a 63% increase from the previous year.
According to media reports, Russia had agreed to supply Turkey with S-400 missiles worth around $2.5B.
Gold was trading near the $1,303 mark on Friday, as political tensions and reduced concerns over US rate hikes allowed for its largest annual increase since 2010.
German inflation data was released on Friday. The data sets revealed that the German inflation has reached the highest level in a period of five years.
The stock market participants mostly celebrated on Friday, as the last day of trading began with almost nine trillion US Dollars gained throughout 2017.
On the final day of trading oil prices hit another record high, as they hit the highest price level seen since the middle of 2015.
In a twitter post on Friday the US President Donald Trump expressed his shock that the United States Post Office was charging too lite to deliver packages.
Huawei Technologies on Friday declared that income from overall operations and smartphone sales in 2017 have had the slowest growth compared with the past four years.
Goldman Sachs Group announced on Friday that the bank expects a decrease of five billion US Dollars to its fourth quarter earnings.
The Russians are planning to issue a bond that will help bring money back into the country as safeguard against future sanctions. Due to that reason demand for the bonds has risen sharply.
Bankers in Hong Kong are planning a round of new initial public offerings in the next two years, which is in sharp contrast to 2017, which was the worst equity raising year in a decade.
On Friday, the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen said the island's defence budget was set to grow steadily over years, as China's military ambitions are getting more apparent.
China's ban on ivory sales takes effect on Sunday, 31 December, a vital step towards curbing the slaughter of elephants.
According to a source with knowledge on the matter, Goldman Sachs has chosen Dublin as a hub for its asset management business in the wake of Britain's decision to leave the EU.
The US Internal Revenue Service advised the country's homeowners on prepaying their 2018 property taxes before Trump's tax law takes effect.
A senior China's drug control official said the United States should trim its "enormous" opioid demand rather than blaming China for being the main source.
Australia's government is seen easing visa restrictions for overseas pilots due to the fact that a domestic shortage of professionals sees planes grounded and flights cancelled.
In a New Year's address to staff, Huawei's rotating CEO Ken Hu said the company expected 2017 revenue to soar 15%, making it the slowest revenue growth over the past four years.
Thousands Peruvians took to the streets in Lima to march against the President's pardoning of the ex-authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori.