On Friday, the US President Donald Trump claimed that Japan and US have started negotiations over the new trade agreement between two states, underlying the importance of the trade deal for Tokyo.
On Friday, Apple Inc told the US trade officials that a wide range of Apple products, including Apple Watch, would be hit by a new set of proposed US tariffs on goods from China.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump said that he is ready to sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller about Russian collusion with his election campaign under certain conditions.
On Friday, the US Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said that battling with China on trade is the right fight.
On Friday, Barnes and Noble Inc shares surged by 21% after investor Richard Schottenfeld said that he had discussed a potential sale of the company with its founder.
On Friday, Tesla Inc said its Chief Accounting Officer Dave Morton has resigned after a month stint.
On Friday, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones edged lower after the US President Donald Trump threatens further tariffs worth of $267 billion on Chinese imports.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump said that the United States and Japan had started talks on trade.
Valdis Dombrovskis, the Vice President of the European Commission, stated that Italy understood that it should cut the structural deficit and reduce public debt in the country's 2019 budget, after talks with the Finance Minister Giovanni Tria.
The United States should deploy tools to tackle banks' excessive risk-taking and unwise mortgage lending, following the example of the Bank of England, Donald Kohn , the former Fed Vice Chairman, stated.
Benoit Coeure, the ECB Board Member, stated that Europe needs an agency to combat money laundering, following cases at the EU banks, which exposed gaps in the ability of the bloc to prevent financial crime.
Executives of ExxonMobil and China's officials discussed a $10B investment by the US-based company in the province of Guangdong, China's state TV report showed.
The US Labor Department's employment report revealed that wages marked the largest yearly gain in the nine-year period of 2.9% in the month of August.
The US Labour Department reported that the country's non-farm payrolls added 201K in August, fulled by hiring at wholesalers, professional and business services and construction sites.
Third Point, the hedge fund of the activist investor Daniel Loeb stated on Friday it was looking at replacing Campbell Soup's entire board, already nominating a slate of new directors.
Assicurazioni Generali, the Italian largest insurer, stated it had been in talks to acquire the majority of France's investment company Sycomore and form a partnership.
Alstom and Siemens stated this Thursday they were expecting the rail merger to go ahead in the first half of 2019, despite the concerns raised by Australian competition watchdog.
On Thursday, Airbus SE stated it was no longer in negotiations over a sale of the Premium Aerotec parts subsidiary that was producing large plane components.
On Thursday, Pinnacle Asset Management, the natural resources and commodities investor, stated its had acquired Sierentz Global Merchants' natural gas trading business, not disclosing the financial terms of the deal.
Playteh has sold its 10% stake in Plus500, the retail online trading platform, in a deal valued at $228M, as it seeks to refinance debt.
The Philippine division of AirAsia stated this Friday that its initial public offering could be postponed to mid-2019, amid high fuel costs.
Volkswagen is facing a trial scheduled for the next week as the carmaker's investors demand for a $10.7B worth compensation for not being informed by the company about the September 2016 diesel pollution row before the the regulators did.
Approximately 380,000 payments were affected by a data breach into the website of British Airways, embarrassing the company.
The new CEO of Ferrari will be Louis Camilleri who in a shareholder meeting announced that he will have the same success as his predecessor.