Indonesia's state energy firm PT Pertamina is set to buy domestic crude oil from contractors, such as PetroChina, Chevron, Petrogas and others, starting from this year's Januaary.
On Thursday, Alphabet's life science tech unit Verily announced a $1.0B worth investment round led by the private equity group Silver Lake, with its Managing Director, Egon Durban, to be nominated to the division's operating board.
2.3M tourists visited Sri Lanka in 2018, compared to 2.1M tourists in 2017, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority reports.
The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif plans to visit India and Iraq to improve bilateral cooperation, the Tasnim News Agency reports.
The Macau International Airport welcomed 8.26M passengers in 2018, an increase of 15% compared to 2017, the airport reports.
The country's purchasing managers' index declined to 51.1 in December from 51.5 in November, the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management reports.
Consumption is expected to be the largest contributor to China's economic expansion in 2019, the Ministry of Commerce reports.
The Cambodian economy is expected to expand 7.3% in 2018 and another 7% in 2019, the National Bank of Cambodia reports.
China plans to contribute $7M to purchase rice and other commodities for people in South Sudan, the United Nations World Food Programme says.
Turkey and Iraq plan to deepen cooperation in the combat against terrorism, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.
On Thursday, Apple Inc shares declined more than 10% after the company warned that it would badly miss its quarterly sales forecast because of weak China demand.
On Thursday, Delta Air Lines Inc shares fell by 10% after the company warned that Q4 revenue would be lower than forecast.
On Thursday, crude oil prices rebounded after an early decline, buoyed by the US Dollar weakness and signs that OPEC is delivering on cuts, that helped ease concerns.
On Thursday, US stocks dropped sharply, after Apple warned that it would miss its quarterly sales forecast, and the Dow Jones Industrial fell about 600 points.
The Chairman of the Swiss bank UBS, Axel Weber, dismissed speculations over its potential merger deal with Deutsche Bank or any other lender, the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper reported on Thursday.
On Thursday, the US private equity titan KKR & Co stated it would acquire a 50% stake in the US plane leasing firm Altavair AirFinance to create the leased aircraft commercial portfolio.
The European Union has cleared the Costa Coffee sale to the US drinks giant Coca-Cola from Britain's hotel and restaurant owner Whitbread, the EU Commission announced on Thursday.
On Thursday, Bristol-Myers Squibb announced it would expand its portfolio with the acquisition of Celgene Corp worth about $74B, marking one of the largest merger deals in the cancer drug sector.
BRF the Brazilian food processor, finalised the sale of 92% of its Argentinian division Quickfood SA, worth $60M, to the meat distributor Marfrig Global Foods.
Arconic's shares surged as much as 9.7% after Bloomberg's report that the US aluminium products maker had entered talks with Apollo Global Management over a potential buyout worth around $22 per share.
Qatar Airways announced on Wednesday it had acquired a 5% of China Southern Airlines, seeking to receive the access to the Chinese fast-growing market.
The new Barrick Gold is exploring several options for its Acacia Mining stake, including a potential sale, as the company seeks terminating an almost two-year-long Tanzania tax dispute, which shuttered all the firm's operations in the country.
The overseas unit of the Chinese cigarette monopoly, China Tobacco International, has filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, seeking to raise about $100M.
DNO, the Norwegian oil company, has increased its stake in the British firm Faroe Petroleum to around 43%, falling short of 57.5% needed to grant it the unasailable majority shareholding.