The US-based farmer cooperative CHS Inc. is set to lay off 144 employees at three locations across the country due to refocusing its production away from soy protein.
Honduras is to suspend constitutional rights in order to grant its police and army more power to contain the unrest caused by the country's election last Sunday.
The ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI in relation to his connections with Russia prior to Trump becoming a president.
Randal Quarles, the US Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, said that efficiency was an important aspect of the Fed's strategy, along with safety and soundness.
According to Uber spokesperson, three top security managers resigned on Friday amid disclosure of massive personal data breach that happened a year ago and affected about 57 million customers worldwide.
On Friday, representatives of the Venezuelan government and the Democratic Unity coalition began new round of negotiations in the Dominican Republic that are aimed to end long lasting political feud.
On Friday, the former Argentine Minister of Education Esteban Bullrich said that the government will not increase defence budget despite the tragedy with missing submarine with 44 people aboard.
Carlo Messina, the CEO of largest Italian retail bank Intesa Sanpaolo, warned on Friday that trade in cryptocurrencies is a speculative bubble that urgently needs worldwide regulation.
During Friday's trading session the S&P500 dropped as much as 1.5%, while the 10Y Treasury bonds fell five points amid confession made by the former US national security adviser Michael Flynn about his links with Russians during transition period in the end of previous year.
On Friday, the most popular cryptocurrency recovered from $9,500 to $10,500, as the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission permitted CME Group and its rival CBOE Global Markets to list Bitcoin futures.
Michael Flynn, the former US national security adviser, pleaded guilty to giving false information to the FBI about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during transition period in the end of 2016.
The US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Friday that Republicans have collected the votes for successful adoption of the tax bill. He added that final vole will happen "later today."
Bashar al-Ja‘afari, the envoy of Syrian government to UN-backed peace talks that take place in Geneva, said that Saudi Arabia does not want to find political solution to the crisis, thus undermining the whole process of negotiations.
According to local police, an unknown item found at the Christmas market in Potsdam was an explosive device. Law enforcement agents that arrived on scene have successfully defused it.
On Friday evening, delegation of the Syrian government quit peace talks in Geneva and threatened not to return at all, as opposition forces categorically reject any role of Bashar al-Assad in post-war Syria.
The new President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa made Major-General Sibusiso Moy the Foreign Minister, while other military commander Perrance Shiri got under management the land portfolio.
The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel stated on Thursday that Germany withdrew the third diplomat from the embassy in North Korea amid Pyongyang's nuclear missile programme.
According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate in the country fell to 5.9% in November, beating analysts' forecasts of a slight decline to 6.2% from the prior month's 6.3% rate.
Markit reported on Friday that German Manufacturing activity remained on hold at 62.5 in November, fully meeting analysts' expectations for the unchanged reading.
On Friday, CME Group stated it was planning to launch a bitcoin futures contract on December 18, as it aimed to provide the regulated trading platform for the market of cryptocurrency futures.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko stated on Friday it would get harder for reformist legislation to muster votes in the Parliament as the election approached.
Germany and Norway agreed to develop a missile for the navies that is based on the Naval Strike Missile of Kongsberg Gruppen, the Norwegian Defence Minister stated on Friday.
Swedish Spotify and Chinese music group Tencent Holdings are planning to swap their stakes up to 10% in each other's businesses, before their estimated public listings in 2018.
On Thursday, Germany's Social Democrats and the Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservative Party agreed to launch the negotiations on forming a new grand coalition.