LONDON: Growing turmoil in Egypt is threatening to disrupt shipments through the Suez Canal and increase the costs for shipping lines as Cairo’s...
LONDON: Growing turmoil in Egypt is threatening to disrupt shipments through the Suez Canal and increase the costs for shipping lines as Cairo’s...
BRUSSELS: Checking email or surfing the Web on a mobile phone while travelling in the European Union will be a third cheaper from...
A pedestrian checks the Tokyo stock index displayed at a securities company branch office in Tokyo yesterday. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average...
WASHINGTON: US consumer spending rebounded in May and new applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, suggesting the economy remained on a moderate...
A supervisor explains a system to apprentices on a packaging line in the Nescafe production facility in Orbe. VEVEY, Switzerland: Nestle, the world’s...
MOSCOW: Russia yesterday unveiled an ambitious revision of a state assets privatisation drive that is now valued at $50bn but keeps the Rosneft...
A worker rides a bicycle past gas pipes at Gas Connect Austria’s gas distribution node in Baumgarten some 40km east of Vienna. Nabucco...
DOHA: Petrochemicals production in Qatar hit 16.8m tonnes in 2012, making it the second largest producer in the GCC downstream sector, after Saudi...
DUBAI: Qatar’s benchmark rose yesterday as trading resumed after a one-day holiday during which the Emir handed over power to his son, calming...
DOHA: Qatar commands 10 percent of the air charter business in the Middle East. The Qatari businessmen make around six charter trips a...
DOHA: Qtel, recently rebranded as Ooredoo, yesterday confirmed that the required legal and regulatory approvals have been obtained and the company’s legal name...
MUMBAI: India’s rupee touched a new record low of more than 60 to the dollar yesterday, deepening the abrupt slide in the currency...
Containers are pictured at a terminal in the harbour of Hamburg. Germany’s Ifo institute has trimmed its forecast for economic growth this year...
PARIS: The number of unemployed people in mainland France was stable in May with a negligible rise of 100 people, just nudging the...
PARIS: France’s banking watchdog said yesterday it had fined the French branch of Swiss bank UBS ¤10m ($13m) for helping hundreds of well-heeled...
DUBLIN: Ireland could try to beef up an inquiry into the 2008 rescue of failed banks that eventually forced the country into an...
MADRID: Spain’s job-destroying recession is set to ease in the second quarter of 2013 as activity improves, the Bank of Spain said yesterday,...
President and Managing Director of Ford India Joginder Singh with newly-launched Ford Ecosport in New Delhi yesterday. Car sales in India slid by...
