Wellington---Key figures from the New Zealand budget released on Thursday: DEFICIT: The deficit for 2014-15 was NZ$684 million (against a government prediction last...
Wellington---Key figures from the New Zealand budget released on Thursday: DEFICIT: The deficit for 2014-15 was NZ$684 million (against a government prediction last...
Hong Kong---Hong Kong stocks opened 0.28 percent lower Thursday following losses on Wall Street as minutes from the Federal Reserve's April policy meeting...
Tokyo---Tokyo stocks rose 0.46 percent by the break on Thursday, hitting new 15-year highs and shrugging off a negative lead from Wall Street....
Wellington---New Zealand confirmed Thursday it failed to meet a pledge to deliver a budget surplus this year, although Finance Minister Bill English insisted...
Sao Paulo---German vehicle manufacturer Mercedes Benz said Wednesday it had cut 500 jobs at its Brazilian plant in Sao Bernardo dos Campos near...
London---London received a record number of foreign visitors in 2014, with 17.4 million tourists flooding into the British capital, according a survey by...
Guatemala City---The heads of the Guatemalan central bank and social security administration were arrested Wednesday on corruption charges, prosecutors said, the latest blow...
Brasília---Brazil may have received a $53 billion investment boost from China but the South American giant would be unwise to view investment from...
Athens---The European Central Bank on Wednesday raised the maximum emergency funding that Greek banks can obtain by 200 million euros ($220 million), a...
New York---The dollar rose against the euro and the yen Wednesday, but fell against the pound after Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting minutes...
New York---Testament to the regeneration of New York, 15 years after the 9/11 attacks, is the new observation deck at the World Trade...
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch New York---US and British regulators fined six major global banks a total of nearly $6 billion between them...
Ahmed bin Ali Al Mohannadi (right) shakes hand with Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani yesterday. Kammutty VP DOHA: A symposium titled “Industry...
By Satish Kanady DOHA: Qatar banks’ foreign credit surged to a huge 60 percent in the first quarter of 2015 compared to the...
NEW YORK/LONDON/ZURICH: Four major banks agreed to plead guilty yesterday to trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates and six were fined nearly $6bn...
Doha: Nissan maintained its status as the fastest-growing automotive brand in the GCC for the third consecutive year, selling a record breaking 219,129...
SAK Holding Group Chairman Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani (fourth left) with Lamis Marqaha (fourth from right) and other officials at the...
Geneva--China on Wednesday told the World Trade Organization that it had scrapped a quota system limiting exports of rare earth minerals after complaints...