Pingan Bank's net income increased 6.5% to $1.9B in the first half of the year due to strong performance in the retail sector, financial report filed to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange shows.
China's non-financial outbound direct investment increased to $65.27B in the first half of the year, a 14.1% increase from the same period a year ago, the Ministry of Commerce reports.
The former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn and the company's current CEO Herbert Diess have both been incriminated during the ongoing "dieselgate" investigation, the German magazine Spiegel reports.
Russia has delivered a note of protest to the US State Department over the breach of international law with connection to Russian diplomatic mission in the US territories, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.
Germany's Interior Ministry said on Friday that Greece has agreed to take back migrants, who have previously applied for asylum in the Mediterranean country.
On Friday, the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 Industrials extended their earlier gains on news of potential development in reducing trade tensions between China and the United States.
President Donald Trump said on Friday, that he asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission to study whether to stop requiring public companies to report quarterly earnings.
On Friday, Mexico's Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said that he hoped the outstanding bilateral NAFTA problems with the United States to be settled by the middle of next week.
President Donald Trump said on Friday, that the bank fraud and tax evasion trial of his ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort is unfortunate, and described him as a very good man.
The US Dollar fell against other major currencies on Friday, as demand for the safe-haven greenback decreased. Meanwhile, expectations are high between China-US trade talks scheduled for next week.
One of Turkish high court has rejected an appeal to release US pastor Andrew Brunson's from house arrest. According to Turkey's state-run news agency.
The US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Turkey's acted very badly in the detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson.
On Friday, the US President Donald Trump had to cancel the military parade scheduled for November amid high costs, saying he would head to Paris instead to commemorate the World War I end.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated she was not expecting much progress to be made over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine from her meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
The Canadian annual inflation rate surged to 3.0% in July due to price increase in all the eight components, according to the Statistics Canada's report on Friday.
Siemens has signed a framework deal worth €1.5B with Austria's railway operator OeBB for a delivery of around 700 trains during the following five years.
The Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo stated he was expecting a progress on the NAFTA issues to be reached in the nearest time.
On Friday, the United States imposed sanctions related to the human rights abuses on two Myanmar's infantry divisions and four individuals.
The US privately-owned restaurant chain CAVA has agreed on an acquisition of Zoe's Kitchen, the publicly listed peer, for about $300M including debt.
Tyson Foods is taking over Keyston Foods, the US chicken processor, from Brazil's Marfrig Global Foods in a deal valued at $2.5B.
Shares in Nordstrom, the upscale department store, jumped as much as 14% on Thursday, following its report of the better-than-expected Q2 sales growth amid an increasing number of its online buyers.
SJW Group has rebuffed the $1.45B worth acquisition deal proposed by California Water Group, its CEO stated this Friday, as it seeks to complete the takeover of Connecticut Water Service.
On Friday, shares of Air France-KLM plunged 4% due to unions' hostile reception to the firm's new director Benjamin Smith, with the Dutch pilots threatening to launch strikes amid working conditions.
Atlantia, Italy's toll-road group, is planning to hold special board meetings starting next week over the deadly collapse of the Genoa bridge the company operates, sources reported on Friday.