China was open to start negotiations with the US to resolve trade disputes, with the country's Premier Li Keqiang noting that the conflict should be managed through dialogue.
Japan's retail sales grew 1.0% year-over-year in March, missing expectations for a 1.7% increase, in a setback to hopes for stronger consumer spending.
Japanese industrial output increased more than anticipated 1.2% in March, following a 2.0% gain in the prior month, government data revealed.
On Thursday, Intel Corp beat profit and revenue expectations for the first quarter of 2018 due to the higher demand for personal computers and data centers chips.
On Thursday, Japanese consumer electronics and video game company Nintendo Co Ltd announced that 46-year-old Shuntaro Furukawa is appointed as a new company's Chief Executive Officer.
On Thursday, the Prime Minister of Ireland Leo Varadkar stated that the EU and Britain must take the next step in post-Brexit border negotiations and finalise the Irish border issue by June.
On Thursday, the US Senate stated that a former CIA Director and Trump loyalist Mike Pompeo is appointed as a new US President Donald Trump's Secretary of State
On Thursday, the Interior Minister of the UK Amber Rudd said that she has no plans to resign after a wave of criticism for giving statements about achieving targets for migrants deportation.
On Thursday, a former head of HSBC's foreign exchange trading desk Mark Johnson was sentenced to two years for defrauding Cairn Energy Plc in $3.5B currency trade.
On Thursday, French and German officials signed the documents that suggest the joint development of the new weapon systems, including a fighter jet and maritime airborne warfare aircraft.
On Thursday, Tesla Inc's spokesman said that Vice President of low-voltage hardware and autopilot Jim Keller is leaving the company to join Intel Corp to lead silicon engineering.
On Thursday, The New York Times appointed company's veteran Roland Caputo as the next Chief Financial Officer, succeeding James Follo who announced his retirement in May.
On Thursday, the spokesman of the White House Sarah Sanders claimed that the US President Donald Trump is planning to visit the UK on July 13 after the first planned trip was canceled in January.
The oil producer ConocoPhillips reported on Thursday a better-than-expected profit of $888M during the first quarter of 2018, boosted by reduced costs and rising crude prices.
The ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio said European banks had managed to reduce the amount of non-performing loans, but further progress was still necessary.
The diamond and gold firms, including Richline Group and Berkshire Hathaway, teamed up with IBM, as their seek to develop blockchain platform to track the jewellery origin and determine whether it is ethically sourced.
The number of applications for US unemployment benefits tumbled 24K to 209K in the week ending April 21, following the prior month's 233K reading, while analysts anticipated a slide to 230K.
Brazil's shoemaker Dass Nordeste Calçados e Artigos Esportivos is likely to cancel its planned initial public offering due to weak demand, according to sources familiar with the issue.
On Thursday, the Italian government has extended the deadline for the struggling carrier Alitalia's sale to the late October, the Industry Minister Carlo Calenda reported.
On Thursday, Slovakia's President Andrej Kiska has reluctantly appointed Denisa Saková as a new Interior Minister, triggering new public protests linked to the investigative journalist Jan Kuciak's murder.
The Italian divided centre-left Democratic Party is set to meet next week, on May 3, to negotiate whether the talks with the 5-Star Movement's anti-establishment over coalition would take place.
On Thursday, General Motors' President stated the carmaker was nearing the resolution to fix its South Korea's unit, as the union had accepted the wage deal.
Germany is expecting the US tariffs on aluminium and steel imports to come into force starting from May 1, after the temporary exemption expires.
The new CEO of Deutsche Bank announced that the bank will decrease asset trading. The news were announced after a massive drop of the bank's profits.