The Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry meets with his Djiboutian counterpart Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to discuss the establishment of an economic free zone in Djibouti.
The European Commission revised its growth forecast for the Portuguese economy to 1.7% in 2019, a decline from a previous estimate of 2.2%.
The average price of a home in the UK dropped 2.9% to £223,691 in January as uncertainty over Brexit undermined confidence, the London-based Evening Standard reports.
Myanmar attracted around 3.5M foreign tourists in 2018, a 3.15% increase compared to the year 2017, the Hotel and Tourism Ministry reports.
The Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani and the Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Marija Pejcinovic Buric agreed to improve bilateral ties.
Prices of most production goods, including seamless steel tubes, gasoline and coal, declined in the last days of January, the National Bureau of Statistics reports.
Revenues of the state-owned Cambodia Post have increased 55% to $13.16M in 2018 from $8.49M the previous year, an annual report shows.
The Chairman of Credit Suisse Investment Bank Urs Rohner said in an interview that the company shares would not shrink further.
The United States and China are preparing to begin trade negotiations next week, as the US negotiators plan to push China on intellectual property.
The Asian Development Bank and Agence Francaise de Developpement plan to increase financing to $5B in the next 3 years from $3B to scale up investment efforts in the region.
The Italian industrial output shrank last year and other indicators suggested a "deteriorating" outlook for the economy, the National Statistics Institute ISTAT reports.
The Japanese exports of agriculture, forestry and fisheries increased to a record high of $8.3B in 2018, the Ministry reports.
The Asian Development Bank and the Bangladesh government signed a $50M agreement to promote small business development in the country.
German exports increased by 3% to an all-time high of $1.49T in 2018, the German Federal Statistical Office Destatis reports.
The Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa visits Ethiopia to participate in the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union with other African leaders.
The Canadian jobless rate increased to 5.8% from 5.6% in December despite adding 66,800 new jobs, the Statistics Canada reports.
The Albanian banks reported a net profit of $168M in 2018, a 17% decline from the previous year, the Bank of Albania reports.
Late on Thursday, Spring Corporation sued AT&T for misleading consumers that they are using still not developed fifth generation wireless networks.
The union workers at Lear Corp, which supplies General Motors Oshawa assembly plant, on Friday began a strike. The event is set to hurt the General Motors production cycle, profits and subsequently stock value.
The head of the European Union's Brexit negotiation team Michel Barnier announced on Friday that on Monday the representatives of the UK will receive another denial for the reopening of Brexit negotiations.
On Friday, the Lithuanian central bank announced to Reuters that nearly 100 financial companies and startups are applying for Lithuanian financial licenses.
US stock exchanges started Friday's trading session in the red, as various benchmarks fell. Financial media blamed various reason for the decline. Meanwhile, as there was no increase of volatility, Dukascopy Analytics saw the move as normal.
During the second half of Friday's London session, as the US exchanges were opening, crude oil prices were surging. Although, some financial media outlets stated that a surge is likely to continue due to OPEC and the situation in Venezuela.
The mobile phone operator of Russia MTS announced on Friday that it will wager whether to list its stock in the United States.