Crude oil prices rose by 2.2% on Friday, reaching $70.45 a barrel, as Saudi Arabia decided to back extension of oil production cuts into 2019.
The head of Britain's opposition Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn fired on Friday his so-called shadow Northern Ireland Minister Owen Smith amid the latter's call to hold a second referendum on Brexit.
The US President Donald Trump said on Friday that South Korea and the US could sign a trade agreement next week that would, inter alia, include exemptions from aluminium and steel tariffs.
GACM, the group developing new airport in Mexico City, stated on Friday it has collected $1.62B in investment trust offering that will be directed at implementation of the project.
EU is planning to introduce harsher customer laws for social networks and email providers like Google in the wake of the recent Facebook data protection scandal.
The US Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has launched an online tool that will let car owners, regulators and insurance providers to search for unfixed recalls.
On Friday, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies claimed that it has reshuffled its board of directors for the first time since 2012, following rumors about Huawei's founder retirement.
On Friday, shareholders of the US chipmaker giant Qualcomm re-elected ten board directors, with some of them receiving support in more than 50% range, a source familiar with the issue reported.
Statistics Canada reported on Friday that the country's core retail sales grew 0.9% over the month of January, in line with expectations.
Data released by the Census Bureau showed that new US residential sales came in at an annual rate of 618K, missing expectations for a 621K pace.
The Census Bureau reported on Friday that the US-made durable goods orders surged 3.1% in February, following a 3.6% drop registered in the preceding month.
According to the data released by Statistics Canada, the state's CPI grew 0.6% over the course of February, topping analysts' expectations for a 0.4% uptick.
Carrefour stated on Friday it had cooperated with Google to develop an online voice assistant "Lea" to battle its rival US retailer Amazon.
Shares in Tencent plunged over 4% on Friday, after its biggest shareholder Naspers had reduced its stake for the first time in almost 20 years; a move that caused a $51B loss in the company's market value in two days.
The US House Energy and Commerce Committee called on Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on the social media platform's use of personal data.
On Friday, Italy's Parliament gathered for a meeting for the first time since the government had held national election in the beginning of March, which resulted in no clear majority.
On Friday, Ireland has chosen Goldman Sachs Management, VlackRock Investment Management and Amundi to manage around $18.5B in disputed Apple taxes, which Brussels collects from the tech giant.
The grocery chain Kroger is in talks with the department store operator Target over possible merger, according to the Fast Company magazine's report on Friday.
The Chinese Defence Ministry condemned the United States on Friday for carrying out navy operations in the disputed South China Sea, which were not discussed with China.
Ukraine is planning to clinch a deal with France to buy helicopters, the Ukrainian and French Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and Jean-Yves Le Drain stated at a joint briefing in Kiev.
South Korea and Vietnam have agreed to increase their bilateral trade by 50% during the following two years to $100B.
The Japanese car manufacturer Nissan Motor Co plans to sell 1M electric vehicles every year by 2022, thus seeing a six-fold increase from the number of units sold in 2017.
The Israeli social trading firm eToro raised $100M in private funding, bringing the total of funds raised to $162M, while the investment round had been led by China Minsheng Financial.
The President Donald Trump is seen to sign a $1.3-trillion funding bill that implies a surge in non-defence and military spending into a law, after the US Congress has approved it early on Friday.