BEIJING: Britain will allow Chinese companies to take majority stakes in nuclear power projects in the country, finance minister George Osborne said yesterday....
BEIJING: Britain will allow Chinese companies to take majority stakes in nuclear power projects in the country, finance minister George Osborne said yesterday....
NEW DELHI: India has cleared US supermarket giant Walmart of accusations it broke a ban on foreign investment in supermarkets by taking an...
LONDON: The volume of European shares traded privately rather than on a public exchange jumped 35 percent year-on-year to a record high in...
GENEVA: The World Trade Organisation has warned member countries that their refusal to increase its budget is causing a logjam in dealing with...
WARSAW: The economies on Europe’s southern and eastern flanks are able to grow less than half as fast as they could do before...
NEW DELHI: British financial giant HSBC announced yesterday that it was closing its struggling retail brokerage and depository business in India, the latest...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Chinese oil giants CNOOC and CNPC will be in pole position in next week’s first auction of deep-water concessions in...
A worker prepares a Bajaj motorcycle before it is delivered to a customer at a Bajaj showroom in Kolkata yesterday. Bajaj Auto, India’s...
PARIS: French luxury goods giant LVMH fought off a plunge in its shares yesterday, reassuring that Chinese consumers were still hungry for goods...
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter Inc will list on the New York Stock Exchange, a marquee IPO win that deals a blow to the tech-heavy...
ROME: Italy saw exports rise by 1.7 percent in August from July as the economy struggles to exit a two-year recession that has...
Riyadh: Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc said yesterday that its smelter at Maaden, Saudi Arabia, which is in its startup phase, has temporarily stopped...
BRUSSELS: The European Union should exert its right to impose carbon charges on aviation within its own airspace, the European Commission said yesterday,...
DAEGU, South Korea: Iraq said China is seeking to increase purchases of its crude by more than two-thirds next year, stepping up the...
DOHA: With a large number of big ticket projects in the offing and a projected demand supply gap, Qatar could face a serious...
WASHINGTON: The London Whale is the gift that keeps giving for regulators. JPMorgan Chase & Co has agreed to pay the latest in...
OTTAWA: Canada is close to reaching a free trade deal with the European Union, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday. “We will...
from left: EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg and ECB Board Member Jorg Asmussen at...