Abdulbasit A Al Shaibei (centre) receiving the award. DOHA: International Islamic (QIIB) has won the “Excellence Award” instituted jointly by the General Council...
Abdulbasit A Al Shaibei (centre) receiving the award. DOHA: International Islamic (QIIB) has won the “Excellence Award” instituted jointly by the General Council...
A cashier counts Indian rupee notes in a bank in Mumbai. A recovery in the rupee is giving India’s Finance Minister P Chidambaram...
A view of the container port in Singapore yesterday. Trade ministers from the US and 11 other countries opened talks in Singapore in...
YANGON: International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde urged Myanmar —which is enjoying an economic boom after decades of international isolation under the junta...
A Boeing 777 sits on the assembly line at the company’s operations in Everett, Washington. South Carolina will clinch a long-awaited land sale...
DOHA: Qatar Central Bank (QCB) will formally announce the details of its renewed strategy to regulate Qatar’s financial market at an event today....
DOHA: Qatar’s diversifying economy is reaching the key milestone of the non-hydrocarbon sector being worth more than half of the country’s GDP by...
DOHA: Qatar Investment Fund (QIF) has announced the proposal for a tender offer to purchase up to 10 percent of the issued share...
DOHA: Scores of experts from insurance and banking sector from over 20 countries will participate in the 4th Annual AMAN Union Meeting to...
Doha: Rather than the hard landing that many feared in 2012 and early 2013, the Chinese economy seems to be taking off again...
Dubai: Qatar National Bank (QNB) has convened its strategy conference entitled “Shaping a Mena Icon” in Dubai. This was the first time this...
CAIRO: Egypt has spent 7bn Egyptian pounds ($1.02bn) of a package of 29.7bn pounds intended to stimulate an economy ravaged by more than...
TUNIS: The World Bank predicted that growth in Tunisia, where the economy continues to suffer from a political impasse and security problems, will...
ATHENS: Greece’s parliament prepared to approve next year’s budget, which forecasts an end to the recession that has gripped the country since 2008....
NEW YORK: General Electric Co has agreed to pay as much as $18.25m to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of rigging...
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.