NEW YORK/ROUND ROCK, Texas: Dell Inc postponed a shareholder vote on its chief executive’s $24.4bn buyout offer to Wednesday after failing to get...
NEW YORK/ROUND ROCK, Texas: Dell Inc postponed a shareholder vote on its chief executive’s $24.4bn buyout offer to Wednesday after failing to get...
DUBAI: Two UAE telecom operators, Etisalat and du, remain at loggerheads over a deal to allow them to compete on fixed line services...
Protestors shout slogans against the visit of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble as they demonstrate in central Athens yesterday. Schaeuble said new financial...
DOHA: The Qatar Exchange (QE) index gained 129.90 points or 1.38 percent last week to close at 9549.87 points. The industrial, insurance and...
NEW YORK: US crude oil hit its highest level in 16 months yesterday, rising above $108 a barrel on signs of a stronger...
WASHINGTON: New claims for US jobless benefits dropped last week to their lowest level in four months, a positive sign for hiring that...
DOHA: Moody’s Investors Service yesterday downgraded the subordinated debt ratings of 12 banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including Qatar. The...
KUWAIT: Kuwait expects to spend around 1bn dinars ($3.5bn) less in the 2013/14 fiscal year, according to the state budget published by the...
An extremely volatile week in the currency market with the US dollar losing ground in the middle of the week after the FOMC...
DUBAI: Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ) yesterday said it had completed the purchase of a 70.84 percent stake in Turkey’s Alternatifbank. The transaction...
A security guard walks past the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) company sign outside the factory in Shanghai, China, yesterday. Beijing: China is preventing the British...
DOHA: BlackBerry yesterday announced that the newest BlackBerry® 10 smartphone, the BlackBerry® Q5, is now available from authorised carriers and retailers in Qatar. ...
London: The number of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK dropped by 21,200 in June, the fastest rate of decline for three...
BRUSSELS: National auto experts meeting in Brussels yesterday recommended an EU-wide block on the sale of Mercedes cars produced in breach of single-market...
NEW YORK: Barclays will contest a record $453m fine imposed by a US energy regulator against the British bank and four of its...
A woman walks past a Bank of America banking center in New York’s financial district. NEW YORK CITY: Bank of America reported a...
US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers his semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, yesterday....
Dubai: Dubai-listed budget carrier Air Arabia surged to a near five-year high yesterday, leading a rally on the emirate’s bourse ahead of UAE...
