LONDON: European stock markets posted solid gains yesterday following unexpectedly strong US jobs data, despite this raising the odds that the Federal Reserve...
LONDON: European stock markets posted solid gains yesterday following unexpectedly strong US jobs data, despite this raising the odds that the Federal Reserve...
A view of Khurmala oilfield on the outskirts of Arbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. SINGAPORE/KHOBAR: Asian petrol margins have peaked and are set...
Ford Motor Co CEO Alan Mulally sits in the driver seat of its all new 2015 Ford Mustang in New York.
NEW YORK: US oil traded higher in choppy trade yesterday, still on track for its biggest weekly percentage gain since July, supported by...
NICOSIA: Tourism spending in Cyprus in the first 10 months of 2013 hit ¤1.95bn, more than last year’s total, boosting hopes the sector...
BERLIN: Germany is “confident” that EU ministers will make progress at talks next week on a planned banking union, a spokesman said yesterday,...
SYDNEY: Embattled Qantas Airways Ltd was relegated to junk status by credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s yesterday, a day after the Australian...
WASHINGTON: US employers hired more workers than expected in November and the jobless rate fell to a five-year low of 7 percent, heightening...
LONDON: Booming housing markets in emerging Asia have pushed global residential property prices to a new peak, according to a report yesterday. Consultancy...
SYDNEY: The Kuala Lumpur-based Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) is revising guidelines on the supervision of Islamic finance institutions around the world, helping...
India's Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma arriving WTO meeting. NUSA DUA: Ministers appeared close to sealing the world’s biggest trade reform for...
A man walks past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai yesterday. The rupee rose to a five-week high against the dollar...
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping exchange documents during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People,...
DUBAI: A unit of Dubai World has sold its Atlantis resort, which sits on a palm tree-shaped island in the Gulf, in an...
LONDON: Britain will impose a capital gains tax on foreign property investors from 2015 in a bid to allay fears that wealthy foreign...
NUSA DUA: India yesterday shrugged off mounting pressure to compromise in a global impasse over food security that has cast the future of...
ISTANBUL: Qatar is considering investing in Turkey’s Afsin-Elbistan coal-fired power plant project, which the United Arab Emirates dropped out of this year, the...
DOHA: Qatari stocks showed marginal gains last week as the country’s main index inched up 14.04 points (0.14 percent) to 10,389.10. The trading...
