TOKYO: Japanese financial institutions are strengthening their debit card offerings. The cards, which withdraw money directly from deposit accounts when used, first became...
TOKYO: Japanese financial institutions are strengthening their debit card offerings. The cards, which withdraw money directly from deposit accounts when used, first became...
LONDON: Global oil prices sank last week to an eight-month low in New York on high US crude and product stockpiles that indicated...
NEW DELHI: India’s economic woes worsened on Friday with a surprise contraction in industrial production and a wider trade deficit. Production at factories,...
JAKARTA: US mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc halted its copper exports from Indonesia, less than an hour before a controversial...
OSLO: Increased demand and higher rates will improve the prospects for oil tanker firms this year as world economic growth accelerates and exports...
Officials pose for a group picture in Doha. DOHA: SEEF Ltd, a local petrochemical company, which recently completed its ambitious ‘Integrated Management System...
A view of the General Dynamics NASSCO ship building complex in San Diego, California, yesterday.
The logo of the Hellenic Postbank at the headquarters of the institution in Athens, Greece, yesterday. Corruption attorneys pressed charges against 25 people,...
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde visits a cooperative farm in Samanko, Mali, yesterday.
Workers at the Lauzoua manganese mine, some 180km from Abidjan. Ivory Coast aims to quadruple its manganese production to around one million tonnes...
A ladle of iron is poured into a basic oxygen steel making vessel at the SSI steel plant at Redcar, northern England LONDON:...
WASHINGTON: US employers hired the fewest number of workers in almost three years in December, but the setback was likely to be temporary...
LONDON: London’s Heathrow warned it could struggle to grow its business after accusing the industry regulator of imposing a “draconian” cap on the...
LONDON/ANKARA: Iran and Russia are negotiating an oil-for-goods swap worth $1.5bn a month that would let Iran lift oil exports substantially, in defiance...
LONDON: London’s Heathrow warned it could struggle to grow its business after accusing the industry regulator of imposing a “draconian” cap on the...
LONDON: Gold rose around one percent yesterday after sharply weaker-than-expected US jobs data supported the view that the US Federal Reserve will take...
NEW DELHI: India’s environment ministry has approved South Korean multinational Posco’s plans to build a long-delayed $12bn steel plant, the company said yesterday,...
LONDON: First it was the Brics. For a while the Civets were in vogue. Now the Mints are the ones to watch. Confused?...
