China is eager to open the country's financial markets to foreign companies on the US and other global investors' demand, following their complaints about strict limits on access to the giant economy.
The South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set to hold a summit with China's counterpart Xi Jinping on November 11, his Presidential office announced on Friday.
The German biggest industry group BDI stated on Friday that it found impossible for the EU and Britain to seal a comprehensive agreement on the future economic ties by 2019.
The South Korea military stated on Friday that it would join a drill with the three US aircraft carrier strike groups, scheduled for November 11-14.
On Friday, the Chinese domestically-built C919 passenger jet has made its first long-distance flight, fully meeting the airworthiness criteria, the COMAC confirmed.
The White House said the US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would not have a separate meeting at the APEC summit due to scheduling conflicts.
On Friday, the EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said the 28-country bloc would ensure the Iran nuclear deal is fully implemented.
The Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel said it was ready to reveal the results of the internal data-cheating investigation on Friday.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump arrived in Vietnam to participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation nations' summit.
On Friday, China's online content platform Bytedance revealed its plans to acquire the lip-sync application Musical.ly for up to $1B.
According to a Reuters poll of economists, the Japanese economy is expected to show seven consecutive quarters of growth.
Toshiba reviewed raising nearly $5.3B through public offering, aiming to allocate shares mainly to foreign investors, as the company was desperate for cash to remain listed.
South Korean automaker Hyundai was considering making its Kona and Tucson sport utility cars and pickup truck at the company's sole US factory in a bid to boost sales.
Nvidia said that its revenue and quarterly profit topped market projections and suggested strong revenue growth this quarter, fuelled by demand for data centres and graphics chips.
China's state fund created for the Belt and Road trade plan and General Electric are expected to jointly set up an infrastructure investment platform, the Chinese government said.
On Thursday, the US House Committee on Ways and Means approved the US President Donald Trump's tax reform plan on a vote of 24 to 16, thus transferring the draft to the full House vote.
On late Thursday, the French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Riyadh to meet with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and discuss different regional issues, such as situation in Yemen and Lebanon.
According to sources familiar with the issue, Spain's top prosecutor on Thursday asked the High Court to jail the Catalan parliament speaker Carme Forcadell as well as three other Catalan legislators.
On Thursday, the AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson emphasized that the company refuses to sell its DirecTV unit, which includes television news channel CNN, in order to get regulator's approval of its proposed $85.4B acquisition of the mass media conglomerate Time Warner Inc.
According to German Finance Minister Altmaier, new tax figures have indicated that the next government would have at least €30B available for tax cuts and additional spending.
BlackRock Inc CEO Fink stated that the global economic outlook was positive, supported by the strength of the corporate profits, despite the US politics' dysfunction.
PSA Group has vowed to shift Opel models onto their own technology faster than expected to secure savings from the acquisition and to improve their emissions performance.
Oil prices inched higher during the New York session, supported by the major exporters‘ supply cuts, as well as the continuing Saudi Arabia's political development concerns.
On Thursday, the President of France Emmanuel Macron decided to make an unexpected visit to Riyadh to meet with the Crown Prince to discuss crises in Yemen, Lebanon and other states in the region.