On Friday, the Tokyo Stock Exchange approved return of Toshiba Corp's to its first section after goverance improvement.
On Friday, the US President Joe Biden had a first official phone call with his Mexican colleague Andres Obrador during which they discussed the pandemic, migration and bilateral cooperation.
On his first official day as the US President, Joe Biden ordered a fast issue of stimulus checks.
On Friday, US stock indices slightly declined, as Intel and IBM reported quarterly earnings results.
The Finance Committee of the US Senate on Friday approved Janet Yellen as the new US Treasury Secretary.
On Friday, the US Senate confirmed Lloyd Austin as the new Defence Secretary of the United States.
The annual pay of Morgan Stanley's CEO James Gorman surged by $6.0M, or 22%, in 2020, a regulatory filing showed on Friday.
EU lawmakers called on the CEOs of Alphabet, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to participate in a February 1 hearing that would be held in Brussels, seeking to crack down over the US tech giants' powers.
TPG, the private equity firm, entered into exclusive negotiations to purchase a minority stake of DirecTV, AT&T's satellite TV arm, in a potential deal that would let the American wireless carrier cut its $150M net debt.
The incoming CEO of Intel Corp stated that most of its 2023 products are set to be produced in Intel factories, adding that the company was investigating non-authorized access to some results.
The US curbs over investors owning securities from Chinese firms could affect $60B worth of bonds and spark hefty outflows via forced selling.
RLX Technology's depositary shares soared 86% in their US stock market debut, giving the Chinese vaping company a market capitalization of almost $35B.
Amazon is set to increase fees for Spanish firms using the platform by 3% starting from April after the government imposed the digital tax.
Walmart is planning to expand the COVID-19 vaccination offering in seven more US states in the coming weeks, according to the company's spokeswoman statement to Reuters.
Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai is set to hold a conference call with Margrethe Vestager, the European antitrust chief, on January 25, the European Commission schedule showed on Friday.
Oil prices dropped on Friday, following their 11-month record highs hit in the previous week, tumbled by concerns that new coronavirus-related restrictions in China may affect fuel demand in the largest global oil importer.
On Friday, the US President Joe Biden appointed Allison Herren Lee, a Commissioner for the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as an acting financial industry regulator's head, the SEC stated.
On Friday, Volkswagen reported its annual adjusted operating profit nearly halved, while vehicle deliveries had shown a robust recovery in the Q4, lifting the carmaker's shares by 1.5% to €164.32.
On Friday, the US President Joe Biden is se to sign two orders aimed at increasing the pandemic-related stimulus checks to needing families and boost food aid for those children who rely on meals at schools as the main nutrition source.
Intel's incoming CEO said in a statement the company was aiming to make its products in Intel plants by 2023, but admitted it could also shift to outside factories.
Honor, the Chinese budget phone developer, signed partnerships with key chip suppliers, including Qualcomm and Intel, after being divided from Huawei Technologies in efforts to save it in 2020, it stated on Friday.
The social media platform Parler has lost its bid to require Amazon.com to restore its web hosting services, which Amazon had turned off after the January 6 US Capitol's storming.
Joby Aero, the electric passenger aircraft manufacturer, is considering to go public via a merger deal with the blank-check acquisition company at the valuation of about $5B.
Ford Motor Co announced that it will recall 3M cars for airbag inflators, which could rupture, at a $610M cost.