On Thursday, the soda can producer Ball Corp stated it was planning to sell the Chinese beverage packaging facilities for around $225M.
Vietnam's newest ride-sharing app "be" stated on Thursday it had signed "hundreds of millions US dollars" of investments ahead of launching its operations starting the next week.
On Thursday, Nikkei reported that Japan Post Holdings will acquire a 7-8% stake in the US insurer Aflac in a deal valued at about $2.6B, as the company seeks overseas expansion.
Apple is set to make an investment of $1.0B to establish the second campus in Texas, while another $10B will be invested into new data centres within the following five years, as the tech giant seeks creating 20K new jobs in US.
Elliott Management, the activist hedge fund, has required Pernod Ricard's board for $500M cost cuts to help bolster the company's operating performance.
The Investment fund Quattro R is nearing a deal with the Trussardi owners to acquire a 80% stake in Italy's fashion house, according to a Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper's report published on Thursday.
France's energy group Total has agreed on a 4% stake sale of its Australia's liquified natural gas project Ichthys to the company's partner INPEX in a deal worth $1.6B, after cost over-runs.
Indonesia's coal miner Bayan Resources completed the buy-back of its Kangaroo Resources unit, in a deal valued at $163.7M, according to the IDX filing published on Wednesday.
On Thursday, a Thai regulator stated it had dismissed the appeal filed by Global Power Synergy Corporation to acquire Glow Energy's stake from France's Engie, saying it would trim competition in the market.
On Wednesday, Norfolk Southern announced it would move its headquarters from Virginia to Atlanta, tapping the major hub for a transportation.
Mondelez International has agreed on a sale of its Middle East's cheese business to Denmark's dairy company Arla Foods, not disclosing the financial terms of the deal.
Incoming FDI to Indonesia is anticipated to be around $11B to $13B in 2018, which is below the average of $20B per year in the prior periods, a senior official stated.
Lazada Group, Southeast-Asia's e-commerce firm backed by Alibaba, appointed Pierre Poignant as the company's new Chief Executive Officer on Thursday within succession planning.
The Reserve Bank of South Africa is unlikely to raise rates again until May, Reuters poll showed, taken after the Bank surprised economists last month, adding 25 bps to borrowing costs.
Toyota Motor stated that it advanced by a year its plans to replace Takata airbags in nearly 65K Toyota and Lexus cars in the US it had replaced previously.
Nissan Motor announced plans to increase the number of external board seats and create a committee to overview compensation within efforts to improve governance.
Hyundai Motor announced plans to provide $1.5B funding to stabilise the company's suppliers' management, the company stated in a statement.
Italy lowered the deficit target for 2019 to 2.04% of output and anticipated the European Commission to accept the country's new budget proposal, the PM Giuseppe Conte stated.
The Central Bank of Brazil kept interest rates at the all-time low, adding that it is set to hold off from hikes for longer than anticipated.
On Wednesday, the US-Israeli mobility technology firm Optibus announced it had attracted $40M in a private round of funding led by the private equity fund Insight Venture Partners.
Samsung Electronics is planning to shut down its mobile phone manufacturing factory in China's Tianjin amid plunging sales in the world's largest smartphone market, as competition with the local lower-cost rivals rise.
ABB has entered talks with the Japanese group Hitachi over the Swiss engineering firm's power grid business it is considering to sell, as the company seeks focusing on more profitable subsidiaries.
On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission voted on the US media ownership rules new review opening to consider ending the ban on merger deals among the country's biggest broadcast networks.
On Wednesday, BHP stated it had called off the sale of Chile's copper mine Cerro Colorado, valued at $320M, to the private equity group EMR Capital due to financing problems.