Saudi Aramco has signed an agreement to form a joint venture with Chinese conglomerate Norinco to develop a refining and petrochemical complex in Panjin city.
The Trump administration, which abruptly announced in December that it was pulling out of Syria, said Thursday that it will keep 200 U.S. troops in the country for now.
Sung-Yoon Lee, Tufts University Fletcher School Kim Koo-Korea Foundation professor of Korean studies, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss how the Trump-Kim Summit could go and what both sides could bring to the table.
At $100 million, it is also the lowest-cost spacecraft ever to be deployed to the moon.
CNBC's Eunice Yoon reports on the stress tariffs are placing on Chinese exporters. Manufacturers are shifting to cheaper countries such as Cambodia to battle rising production and labor costs in China.
Venezuela's opposition lawmakers are forging ahead with plans to confront a government blockade that has kept tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid, mostly supplied by the U.S., from flowing into the country.
Greece's government is adamant that much-needed reforms will soon be completed so that the country can unlock fresh funding from the European Union.
Danish shipping group Moller-Maersk reported fourth-quarter earnings in line with expectations on Thursday, but warned a long-running trade conflict between the world's two largest economies could hamper growth in 2019.
Brazil's government aims to save more than 1 trillion reals ($270 billion) in 10 years for public coffers with a pension reform bill delivered to Congress on Wednesday, according to an Economy Ministry presentation.
Three U.K. lawmakers from Britain's ruling Conservative Party have quit to join a new centrist group in parliament, saying the government's handling of Brexit has been "disastrous."
Putin threatens to field new weapons that would target U.S. decision-making centers if Washington deploys intermediate range missiles in countries bordering Russia.
Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is looking forward to a good meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Feb. 27 and 28 in Vietnam and wants Pyongyang to ultimately denuclearize but is in no particular hurry.
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The two countries have attempted to raise prices by agreeing supply cuts while at the same time the U.S. has increased output.
Khan said in a televised speech that, should there be an attack from India, "Pakistan will not merely think of retaliation, but rather, we will retaliate."
A Mongolian regulator said it will suspend operations at KFC restaurants temporarily to conduct inquiries, as 42 people were hospitalized and hundreds showed food poisoning symptoms after eating at one of the outlets of the fast-food chain.
InterContinental Hotels Group said its full-year room revenue grew as more people checked into its 380 hotels in the Greater China region.
Trump said he wanted a peaceful transition of power in Venezuela but that all options remained open.
China's foreign ministry says that the US fabricated excuses to slow down its tech industry, including Huawei.
The world economy is headed for a period of "dull, low" growth, according to fund manager Janus Henderson, but the risk of an outright recession remains small.
China's new bank loans surged to a record high in January — a sign that government stimulus may finally be kicking in, some analysts say.
Singapore's second-largest bank OCBC expects its loans business to grow more moderately this year amid greater uncertainties in China and globally, according to the bank's chief executive Samuel Tsien.
NASA is paying SpaceX $2.6 billion and Boeing $4.2 billion to build rocket and capsule launch systems to return astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil.
European stocks were mixed Friday morning, as market participants closely monitored signs of progress in trade talks between the world's two largest economies.
Oil prices declined on Friday after the U.S. reported a record crude output, diminishing efforts by producer club OPEC to curb supply and tighten markets.
Gold prices advanced on Friday as the dollar came under pressure from optimism over trade talks between Washington and Beijing.
Europe is experiencing a slowdown, but Simon French of Panmure Gordon says the European Central Bank should wait for more data before committing to a path forward.
Francesco Filia of Fasanara Capital says it is not just Italy, but the whole of Europe, that looks economically unstable.
At this point, with regard to the Brexit deal, the U.K. and EU should just "jump" and "design the parachute on the way down," says Jeremy O'Friel of Belmont Investments.
China's new bank loans surged to a record high in January — a sign that government stimulus may finally be kicking in, some analysts say.
Amazon is reportedly in talks to merge its China unit with a local e-commerce firm, but one expert said any deal is likely to be "too little too late" for the American e-commerce giant's ambitions in Asia's largest economy.
Singapore's second-largest bank OCBC expects its loans business to grow more moderately this year amid greater uncertainties in China and globally, according to the bank's chief executive Samuel Tsien.
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