Wall Street was set to open higher on Friday with the Dow on track to snap an 8-day losing streak, helped by a surge in oil prices as OPEC neared a deal to boost output, while there were no significant developments in the China-U.S. trade rhetoric.
Barclays has appointed Steven Penketh as chief operating officer for Barclays International, the unit that houses its investment bank and private banking businesses, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
Advisory and investment firm River and Mercantile Group Plc's unit named former Australian rugby international Tim Horan managing director of its newly launched Australia and New Zealand operation.
Brazil's antitrust watchdog Cade on Friday approved buyout firm Advent International's acquisition of Walmart Inc's Brazilian operations, and sought no additional asset sales.
It's been three months since President Trump announced the imposition of 10 percent tariffs on U.S. imports of aluminium.
* MSCI All Country World index set for worst week in 3 months
Italy's finance minister Giovanni Tria said on Friday the European Union should not set quantitative targets to reduce banks' stocks of bad loans as part of an overhaul of EU banking rules.
Charlie Sheen's "Two and a Half Men" character was run over by a bus and got a full-scale funeral. "Glee" actor Corey Monteith died in real life and had a tribute episode. "House of Cards" will return minus scandal-tainted Kevin Spacey, with his screen wife taking center stage.
Stock futures pointed to a higher opening for Canada's main stock index on Friday, with crude prices up more than 1 percent as OPEC meets in Vienna. OPEC moved closer towards boosting oil output as its leader, Saudi Arabia, appeared to have persuaded arch-rival Iran to cooperate, after major consumers warned of a supply shortage. June futures on the S&P/TSX index were up 0.37 percent at 7:15 a.m. ET. Canadian inflation and retail sales dat
U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday as oil prices jumped ahead of an OPEC meeting later in the day and in the absence of any significant developments in the China-U.S. trade rhetoric overnight.
WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, which he hoped would bring more party members into Congress.
