On Sunday, the French Minister for European Affairs Clement Beaune said that it was too early to guarantee summer holidays abroad.
On Sunday, South Korean battery makers announced a 1.8$ billion settlement with the Unites States in an ongoing trade dispute.
Board Member of the ECB Fabio Panetta stated on Sunday that the European Central Bank should not delay the rising of inflation.
On Sunday, the price for Bitcoin reached above the 60,000 USD mark, as talks of reduced supply renewed.
On Saturday, the US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell met with former US President Donald Trump to discuss support for 2022 Congress elections.
The Spanish government revised its economic growth forecast to 6.5% in 2021, down from 7.2%, as the country faces a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The unemployment rate in Canada declined 0.7% to 7.5% in March 2021, the lowest level in a year, a report published by the Statistics Canada shows.
Mexico's industrial activity increased 0.4% in February, compared to the previous month, data published by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography show.
Retail sales in Italy rose 6.6% in February, compared to the prior month, a report published by the National Statistics Institute shows.
China's railway freight volume increased 12% to 920M tonnes in the first three months of the current year, the national railway operator reports.
Ford Motor sold 153,822 vehicles in China in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 73.3% from the same period in 2020, the Detroit News reports.
Bilateral trade between China and Brunei rose 72.5% to $1.91B in 2020, the Chinese Ambassador to Brunei Yu Hong says.
German exports to China increased 25.7% to $10.1B in February, compared to the same period in 2020, the Federal Statistical Office reports.
Average house prices in the UK reached a record high of $349,671 in March 2021, the British mortgage lender Halifax reports.
It was announced on Sunday, that the President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh had won his fifth Presidential election.
On Sunday, Reuters revealed that Korean battery production firms had come up with a solution to the ongoing trade dispute with the US.
On Saturday, the Chinese regulators have hit Alibaba Group Holding with a record fine of $2.75 billion for violating anti-monopoly rules.
On Friday, the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that President Joe Biden's 2022 budget plan would increase the overall IRS budget by $1.2B or 10.4%.
On Friday, officials from the United States and Iran disagreed over what sanctions the US should remove before Tehran returns to the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Investors and traders are looking ahead to the upcoming US corporate earnings reports, beginning next week, as overall S&P 500 earnings are expected to have surged by 25% in the first quarter.
On Friday, workers at an Amazon.com warehouse in Alabama voted against forming a union in a major win for the world's largest online retailer.
General Motors Co stated on Friday that it would cancel some shifts at two of its plants responsible for truck production because of the ongoing chip shortage.
On Friday, the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted that President's tax plan would increase the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget by $1.2B or 10.4%.
On Saturday, China instructed Alibaba to pay a $2.75B fine which was equivalent to nearly 4% of the company's revenue for abuse of its dominant position in the market.