LUXEMBOURG: MasterCard’s five-year battle to keep multi-billion-euro cross-border card fees was dealt a blow yesterday when an adviser to Europe’s top court backed...
LUXEMBOURG: MasterCard’s five-year battle to keep multi-billion-euro cross-border card fees was dealt a blow yesterday when an adviser to Europe’s top court backed...
LONDON: The Iraqi government has hired a law firm to target any buyer of what it considers illegally exported Kurdish crude oil, a...
DUBAI: The International Monetary Fund has raised its 2014 economic growth forecast for the United Arab Emirates to 4.5 percent but warned of...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi bourses bucked a downbeat Gulf trend as earnings and dividend disclosures lured buyers, while other markets tracked...
NEW YORK: US oil giant ExxonMobil yesterday reported a drop in quarterly earnings due to lower oil and gas production and much weaker...
Rashid Al Mansouri, CEO of Qatar Exchange. DOHA: A correction pushed Qatari stocks down yesterday, with stock analysts suggesting that the successful completion...
By Satish Kanady DOHA: Qatari banks are increasingly reducing their reliance on the short-term interbank funds and focusing more on issuance of debt...
From left: The General Manager of Tadmur Trading, Raed Halawa, General Manager for Middle and Africa (MEA), Whirlpool Corporation, Lorenzo Milani; Senior Commercial...
A worker from Greece’s Public Power Corporation (PPC), the country’s biggest power utility, walks past a mock electricity pylon during a rally against...
MILAN: Italian car giant Fiat announced yesterday it was changing its name after completing the purchase of US automaker Chrysler to “Fiat Chrysler...
People shop grocery in Mercator shopping mall in Ljubljana yesterday. Having scraped together funds to bail out its banks last month, Slovenia must...
A shopper behind an advertisement board of Nintendo Co’s Wii U game console at an electronics retail store in Tokyo yesterday. Nintendo, facing...
An Airbus A380 of French airline Airfrance is sprayed with water upon its arrival at Abidjan’s airport, yesterday. It is the first A380...
DOHA: Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) has entered into an agreement with oil major Royal Dutch Shell to buy 23 percent stake in the...
Washington: Turmoil in emerging markets and a month of disappointing job growth at home are unlikely to deter the Federal Reserve from trimming...
KUWAIT CITY: Thousands of oil workers in Opec member Kuwait plan to go on strike over a government decision to cut their wages,...
DOHA: Vodafone Qatar’s total revenue for the nine months ended in December 2013 reached QR1.43bn, up 31 percent compared to the same period...
NEW DELHI: India’s top mobile phone firm Bharti Airtel said yesterday its quarterly profit leapt by 115 percent, the first rise in four...