Another potential buyer has emerged for Glencore’s CSA copper mine in Australia.

Daimler has reported a slump in first quarter earnings, as the German company joins other global carmakers plagued by falling sales in China and flat markets in the Europe and the US. 

South Wales police are investigating an incident at Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot after local residents reported hearing an explosion from the UK’s biggest steelworks early on Friday morning. 

Asian markets were mixed on Friday amid a strengthening US dollar and ahead of US growth figures, while crude dipped from six-month highs as supply concerns eased.

The New York attorney general’s office has accused cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex of covering up an $850m loss with cash reserves from affiliated digital currency Tether.

Shares in Asia-listed chipmakers fell in early trading on Friday after Intel slashed its revenue and earnings forecasts for the rest of 2019, dashing earlier hopes of a speedy recovery from the downturn hitting the electronics sector. 

Elon Musk and US securities regulators have failed for a second time to meet a deadline to resolve a dispute over whether the Tesla boss breached restrictions he agreed to make to his Twitter use.

Japanese industrial production fell at its fastest pace in almost four years in March, according to a preliminary reading, while retail sales in the country picked up pace.

US toymaker Mattel on Thursday showed its turnround was taking hold as strong Barbie sales helped revenue top expectations and the company reported a smaller loss and improved gross margins.

Facebook has been hit with yet another data protection probe, this time by the New York State Attorney-General, after the social media network improperly harvested the personal email contacts of 1.5m users.

Starbucks is planning to bring coffee delivery to another 15 cities in China as the US chain faces off against fast-growing rival Luckin Coffee in the world’s second-biggest economy.

Ford on Thursday reported a stronger first-quarter profit than expected on robust demand for trucks in the US and predicted a stronger year overall, driving shares sharply higher.

US stocks were mixed on Thursday after earnings reports set a test for the lofty valuations on Wall Street — where the S&P 500 was shy of a fresh record while the Nasdaq Composite hit a fresh high — and on global markets.

Industrial products group 3M said it plans to shed jobs globally as part of a restructuring and reduced this year’s earnings guidance after it reported first-quarter earnings that missed Wall Street expectations.

Chipotle Mexican Grill shares fell on Thursday after the restaurant chain disclosed a new subpoena it received over the outbreak of a foodborne illness at one of its stores last year.

Polish teachers said on Thursday that they would suspend a strike that has closed thousands of schools across the country, but threatened that they could still take further action alongside other groups later in the year.

Wirecard sought to put an accounting scandal behind it on Thursday as the German payments group announced that auditor EY signed off its 2018 accounts and that the supervisory board had agreed measures to improve its processes. 

Canadian regulators have announced plans to take Facebook to court to force the company to change its privacy practices after the social media network allegedly breached local privacy laws and “refused to address deficiencies” in its practices.

Turkey’s financial markets suffered a new blow on Thursday as the country’s central bank unnerved investors by signalling a growing reluctance to raise interest rates and disclosed a further drop in its foreign currency reserves.

French retailer Casino said on Thursday after market close that solid performance from its second-largest market of Brazil helped the group slightly beat market expectations in the first quarter, despite flat overall sales in its home market of France.

China’s Citic Metals has announced plans to invest a further $450m into Ivanhoe Mines, the Canadian-listed company developing a high-grade copper deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Investors smacked down shares of World Wrestling Entertainment on Thursday after the company revealed a surprise drop in quarterly revenue, hurt by weaker attendance and television ratings.

Novatek, Russia’s top independent gas producer, Thursday signed binding deals on the conditions to sell a 20 per cent stake in its second Arctic gas liquefaction project to Chinese partners, equally split between China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Corporation and China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

Heineken unveiled plans to spend a record amount on transforming dozens of its pubs in the UK as the Dutch brewer searches for growth opportunities in a mature market even as the prospect of Britain leaving the EU looms.