Iraq is planning to shut down its border crossings and airports for 24 hours on May 12 during the election, the first held in the country after it defeated the Islamic State militants.
On Thursday, Canada's retailer Tire said it would acquire the Norway-based work-wear and sportswear brand Helly Hansen in a C$985M deal, including debt, seeking to add earnings.
France's oil giant Total agreed to acquire up to 50.8M shares in Clean Energy Corp in a deal worth $83.4M, becoming the biggest stockholder with a 25% stake.
The Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corp projects an increase in operating profit by 11.7% during this fiscal year due to higher automotive batteries sales.
The price of US WTI crude and Brent futures rose to new highs on Thursday, as the market projected tighter supply in response to possible US sanctions against Iran.
On Wednesday, Britain's investor I Squared Capital agreed to acquire the trailer leasing firm TIP Trailer Service from the Chinese company HNA Group.
On Thursday, France's manufacturing group Alstom announced it had clinched a deal with General Electric to exit three energy joint ventures in payment return of $3.08B.
Azora Altus, the Spanish property manager, has dropped its debut and decided to postpone the initial public offering on Spain's stock exchange due to an uncertainty arisen from the Blackstone's bid for Hispana real-estate unit.
Saudi's SABIC is seeking to acquire a 50% stake in the $4.6B Indian petchem plant supported by Oil and Natural Gas Corp, sources familiar with the issue reported on Wednesday.
Sonatrach, Algeria's state energy company, is planning to acquire ExxonMobil's 175K barrel-per-day Augusta oil refinery in Italy's island of Sicily amid North African producer's intention to lower its hefty fuel bills.
On Wednesday, Xerox stated it was eager to resume the merger talks with Fujifilm, seeking for better deal to the terms revealed in January that had spurred a fight over the firm.
The Bank of Japan is set to prepare markets for the bank's future withdrawal of the monetary stimulus program, a summary of an April meeting showed.
The UK house prices gauge dropped to the lowest level in more than 5 years of a negative 8 in April amid a slump in London and the country's southeast region.
Axa Equitable, encompassing the US operations for France's insurance giant Axa, raised $2.75B in the largest US IPO this year despite falling $1B short of a targeted share sale.
Royal Bank of Scotland stated that it agreed to pay $4.9B to resolve the US Justice Department probe into the bank's structuring and mortgage bond sale ahead of the crisis in 2008.
Quarterly earnings of Ford Motor are likely to be affected by shutdowns of the company's three US truck plants due to the fire at a supplier of key parts.
The Philippine economy expanded 6.8% in the last quarter from a year before, driven by rising government spending and private consumption.
China's Producer Price Index increased 3.4% year-on-year in April, the first rise in the last seven months, official data revealed.
China's yearly consumer inflation growth weakened to 1.8% in April, slightly below expectations, an official report showed.
On Wednesday, the US Transportation Department sent two proposed rules to be reviewed by the White House regarding the regulation of the increased amount of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Chief Operating Officer of Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc Simon Kirby will resign from his post in June as the new strategy of the Brtish manufacturer aims to streamline company's business.
Ford Motor Co is working with its key supplier Meridian Magnesium Products to shift part of the production to Ontario, Canada, after a fire on supplier's plant in Michigan, hoping to restore the production in the nearest time.
On Wednesday, the President of Iran Hassan Rouhani told the President of France Emmanuel Macron that in current situation Europe has very limited opportunities to save the nuclear deal.
On Wednesday, chief executive of Boeing Co Dennis Muilenburg claimed that the end of Iran nuclear deal and revoking of license to sell 737 aircraft to Iran will not hurt company's production plans.