Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei talking to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (centre), as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks on in Tehran,...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei talking to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (centre), as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks on in Tehran,...
CAIRO: Egypt will reopen talks with the IMF next month on a $4.8bn loan, a minister said yesterday, and the government laid out...
DUBAI/LONDON: Etisalat, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) biggest telecoms operator, has lined up advisers for its bid for Vivendi’s 53 percent stake in...
LONDON: The builder of The Shard skyscraper in London will be the project manager for the planned $1.2bn, 1,000-metre Kingdom Tower skyscraper in...
Dubai: Standard Chartered announced yesterday the appointment of Tom Emmet as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) for the Middle East and North...
BAGHDAD: Iraq yesterday gave the go-ahead for a framework agreement to be signed for the construction of pipelines through Iraqi territory that would...
DUBAI: Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (Taqa), the state-owned energy and utility firm, plans to issue an $800m bond next month to refinance...
CAIRO: Egypt’s annual economic growth rate will hit 3 percent by end-June, below the government’s projected 4 percent because of political instability, the...
DUBAI: Saudi crude exports fell for the fourth month running in December, but the fall in shipments was less dramatic than the drop...
Dubai: Developer Nakheel is in talks to extend Dh8bn ($2.18 bn) in loans due in 2015, the indebted company’s chairman was quoted as...
DUBAI: Shares in Abu Dhabi’s Aldar Properties helped lift the emirate’s benchmark to a 39-month high, with investors expecting strong dividend payouts, while...
ABU DHABI: France’s senior defence industry lobbyist said yesterday he was confident the United Arab Emirates would buy Rafale fighter jets by 2015-2016,...
ABU DHABI: A member of Abu Dhabi’s royal family says he plans to spend $45bn over up to 15 years on a real...
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s biggest Islamic lender, Kuwait Finance House (KFH) reported a 24 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit yesterday thanks to its restructuring...
AMMAN: Jordan’s Arab Potash Company, one of the world’s largest producers of potash, said 2012 net profit fell by more than a third...
ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways needs to revise its deal to buy a stake in India’s Jet Airways and it is too soon to...
MOSCOW: The Group of 20 nations declared yesterday that there would be no currency war and deferred plans to set new debt-cutting targets,...
ABU DHABI: UAE budget carrier Air Arabia reported a 6 percent rise in fourth quarter net profit yesterday, helped by a rise in...
