The former Barclays bosses are facing criminal charges at the London trial over deals with Qatar's investors to secure injections of cash allowed by the bank during the 2008 financial crisis.
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to hold a phone call with the EU President Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday amid her intentions to receive concessions from Brussels over the Brexit deal.
On Friday, oil inched higher toward $57 a barrel after China announced it would hold the trade talks with the United States to try to resolve the ongoing trade dispute.
Retail vacancies in the United States rose marginally to 10.2% in the Q4, compared to the preceding year's 10.0% reading, the real estate research company Reis reported.
The US chipmaker Qualcomm has enforced the court order that bans sales of some Apple's iPhones in Germany on the back of the patent dispute between the companies.
On Friday, Tesla announced it would launch deliveries of its Model 3 vehicles to the Chinese customers starting this year's March, marking the time frame the US EV maker's CEO Elon Musk set a year ago.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA has received bids for its shallow water oilfield from Australia's Karoon Energy and Brazil's PetroRio, on the back of the state-owned oil giant's new divestment programme.
Nissan Motor's ousted Chairman Carlos Ghosn will appear in Tokyo court within the next five days as he requested to hold an open hearing, which will be his first public appearance since the arrest that took place on November 19.
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.