Costa Rica's economy grew 2.7% last year, the country's Central Bank stated, missing the target and registering weaker growth than the previous year.
Japan's retail sales grew more than anticipated last month, as consumers increased their spending on home appliances and clothes, which is likely to ease some concern over the private consumption outlook.
Advanced Micro Devices reported the strongest quarterly increase in data centre sales and expected revenue to be above estimates in fiscal 2019, sending shares up 10% in after-hours trading.
The Producer Price Index of Italy grew 4.1% year-over-year in December, below the 4.5% increaase observed in the prior month, the ISTAT stated.
Spain saw the strongest growth in employment in the 12-year period in the prior year, the INE report showed, the number of employed people rose to 19.56M.
The number of Britons in insolvency rose to the highest level since 2010 in late 2018, according to the official report, indicating that is will likely add to unease on the health of the UK economy ahead of Brexit.
The German government anticipated employment to reach a record-high level in 2019 and wages to increase, the Handelsblatt reported.
The US State Department approved a possible sale of two AEGIS Weapon Systems made by Lockheed Martin and missile defence equipment to Japan for an approximate cost of up to $2.15B.
Harley-Davidson reported worse-than-anticipated quarterly profit and forecast a decline in global shipments of the company's motorcycles in 2019, sending its shares down more than 7% in afternoon trading.
The US consumer confidence dropped to the lowest level in more than a year in January as a partial government shutdown and turmoil of financial markets left households nervous about the prospects of the economy.
The New York DFS fined Standard Chartered $40M for the attempts to rig transactions in FX markets in the 2007-2013 period, the regulator stated.
Ryanair, the Irish budget carrier, acquired the remaining 25% in the airline's Austrian arm Laudamotion, it announced on Tuesday, not disclosing the financial terms of the deal.
The world's biggest gaming console and video games retailer, GameStop stated it had given up on trying to sell the company, after failing to find a buyer on favourable terms, sending its shares down 21% on Tuesday.
Volkswagen is planning to launch an initial public offering of its truck division Traton in April, expecting to sell its shares worth up to $6.9B, sources reported on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Saudi Aramco Technologies has teamed up with TechnipFMC and Axens in a joint agreement to boost its catalytic crude development and commercialisation to chemicals technology.
Apple's supplier Corning reported higher-than-expected profit and revenue results for the fourth quarter, boosted by a higher demand from the telecoms companies.
On Tuesday, Verizon Communications reported lower-than-expected Q4 revenue estimates, but said it had almost doubled its new wireless subscribers, meeting analysts' forecasts.
On Tuesday, Lockheed Martin, the main Pentagon's supplier, reported it had missed analysts' expectations for the quarterly profit, forecasting this year's earnings below estimates, bringing its shares down 1% in early trading.
On Tuesday, Pfizer stated it was forecasting its 2019 results on profit, sales and revenue below the Wall Street estimates, following its patent loss on the company's pain treatment that year.
Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido stated his movement could gain a peaceful transition from the President Nicolas Maduro, as well as free elections.
The EU Parliament Committee is seen to support a visa-free travel to Europe for Britons after the UK withdrawal from the bloc, regardless the outcome of the Brexit deal.
Trump's Administration imposed sanctions against Venezuela's state-held oil company PDVSA, curbing its exports to the US and escalating Washington's pressure on the President Nicolas Maduro.
On Tuesday, Xerox Corp reported it had beaten its Q4 profit estimates on cutting costs, while its revenue plunged more-than-expected due to businesses keeping trimming their spending on photocopiers and printers.
Facebook's photo-sharing app Instagram stated a partial outage, which hit some of the social network users, had been fixed and the service was fully functional again.