Oil prices rose on Friday and held on track for their first weekly gain since early January as investors bet the economic impact of the coronavirus would be short-lived and hoped for further Chinese central bank stimulus to tackle any slowdown.
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg accepts that global tax reforms mean it may have to pay more taxes in different countries, excerpts of a speech he is due to deliver in Germany on Saturday show.
Samsung Electronics' board Chairman Lee Sang-hoon, who was convicted and jailed for sabotaging union activities, has resigned from the South Korean company, it said on Friday.
NMC Health said on Friday Executive Vice Chairman Khalifa Butti Omeir Bin Yousef had resigned from its board, the latest sign of turbulence at the United Arab Emirates largest private healthcare provider as it eyes a sale to one of two private equity groups.
Shares of Nissan Motor Co sank to their lowest in more than a decade on Friday, after deep cuts to the troubled Japanese automaker's earnings forecast and dividend raised questions about its future profitability.
European shares touched record highs on Friday as investors digested whether China's coronavirus outbreak would cause long-lasting damage to global economy.
U.S. planemaker Boeing Co said it has agreed to a tentative deal with its engineers' union to extend its labor contract by another four years.
Tesla will offer $2 billion of common stock, with CEO Elon Musk and board member Larry Ellison each buying shares.
A U.S. judge on Thursday granted Amazon.com Inc's request for a preliminary injunction to pause the U.S. Department of Defense and Microsoft Corp from moving forward on an up-to-$10 billion cloud computing deal.
Federal Reserve board nominee Judy Shelton faced deep skepticism from Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, as lawmakers challenged her independence from President Donald Trump and characterized her thinking as too far outside the mainstream to trust with the nation's economy.
Federal Reserve board nominee Judy Shelton on Thursday apologised for having likened a convicted currency counterfeiter to U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks in an unusual exchange with a lawmaker weighing her appointment to the central bank.
The U.S. government on Thursday filed a superseding indictment against the Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies Co and its Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou.
A loophole in federal retirement law means workers at nonprofits associated with churches are at risk of losing their pensions.
JPMorgan Chase & Co has told financial technology companies that they will be barred from accessing its customer information by July 30 if they do not sign data access agreements with the bank and agree to a plan to stop using customer passwords to gather the data.
Scammers use fake checks to dupe even skeptical consumers by exploiting how quickly funds are credited to bank accounts.