DOHA: Damaan Islamic Insurance Company (Beema) has recorded a profit of QR28m for the first half of 2013, against QR10m posted during the...
DOHA: Damaan Islamic Insurance Company (Beema) has recorded a profit of QR28m for the first half of 2013, against QR10m posted during the...
A man looks at Suzuki second-hand vehicles for sale at one of the company’s dealerships in Tokyo. Suzuki Motor Corp raised its net...
ZAGREB: Standard & Poor’s cut its credit rating outlook for Croatia to negative, citing concerns that the country would struggle to shake off...
Doha: Tapering of Quantitative Easing (QE) in the US could act as a brake on global growth, according to QNB Group. Concerns about...
LONDON: Iraq’s oil revival is stalling, and unless momentum is regained, Baghdad will report an output decline for 2013, its first after two...
RIYADH/DUBAI: A $22.5bn plan to build Riyadh’s first metro rail system aims to achieve more than improving the quality of life in the...
LONDON: Oil and base metal prices gained last week as positive US and Chinese economic data fuelled higher demand expectations, according to analysts....
DUBAI: Lebanon’s politics are descending into sectarian conflict and its economy is starved of investment. But its sovereign bonds are steady, foreign reserves...
MOSCOW: Gazprom increased gas exports to Europe, its main source of revenues, by almost a third in July, even as consumers in Europe...
NEW YORK: Michael Dell agreed to sweeten his proposal to buy Dell Inc to as much as $24.9bn with a special dividend, securing...
An attendant opens the door of a Toyota Lexus IS 300h at the company’s showroom in Tokyo yesterday. TOKYO: Toyota said yesterday that...
NEW YORK: US oil futures fell by more than $1 yesterday as US jobs data came in below expectations, tempering economic optimism that...
MADRID: Spain basked in a summer jobs boom in July when the number of people registered as being unemployed dropped for the fifth...
MONTREAL: TransCanada announced plans for the construction of a $12bn pipeline to carry oil from the Alberta oil sands to the Atlantic seaboard....
SYDNEY: Australia said yesterday that its budget deficit has blown out to A$30bn and revenues are shrinking, as it unveiled a pre-election mini-budget...
LONDON: Europe’s main stock markets mostly shrugged off disappointing monthly US jobs data yesterday that suggested the recovery in the world’s top economy...
GENEVA: China breached the rules of global commerce by imposing duties on imports of US chicken, the World Trade Organisation ruled yesterday, saying...
JAKARTA: Indonesian growth slipped below six percent last quarter as exports and investment fell in Southeast Asia’s top economy due to global weakness,...