MUMBAI--India's central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points Thursday and signalled further reductions could come, in a surprise announcement to boost...
MUMBAI--India's central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points Thursday and signalled further reductions could come, in a surprise announcement to boost...
Moscow--Car sales in Russia look set to plummet by nearly one quarter in 2015 as the economic crisis batters consumer spending, automobile manufacturers...
GENEVA--Switzerland's central bank said Thursday it was ending a three-year bid to hold down the value of its currency against the euro, in...
BANGKOK--Thailand will begin constructing a 400 billion baht ($12.22 billion) railway project in September, a deputy prime minister said on Thursday, the latest...
NAIROBI-- The Kenyan shilling was steady on Thursday, but traders said it was expected to remain under pressure from importer demand for dollars...
Taipei---Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co said Thursday its fourth quarter net profit and revenue both hit record highs thanks to strong demand for chips...
Berlin---The German economy, Europe's biggest, braved global economic storms to expand 1.5 percent in 2014, better than the government had expected, a flash...
London---Europe's main stock markets rebounded at the start of trading on Thursday following a recovery in Asia and after the previous day's sharp...
Hong Kong---Hong Kong climbed 0.99 percent, tracking gains in the mainland on hopes Chinese leaders will pump more cash into financial markets to...
Tokyo---Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo on Thursday pledged to improve working conditions at its Chinese suppliers and beef up monitoring following claims that the...
Singapore---Oil prices fell in Asia on Thursday after a bargain-buying rally the day before lost steam, with a pick-up in US inventories reinforcing...
Shanghai---China's bank lending rose to $1.60 trillion in 2014, the central bank said Thursday, as the government sought to loosen credit to spur...
Tokyo---Shares in Japanese budget airline Skymark plunged on Thursday after a report said talks about a capital injection deal with bigger rival All...
DOHA: Saad Sherida Al Kaabi (pictured), President & CEO of Qatar Petroleum (QP) said yesterday that QP will be conducting feasibility studies to...
Doha: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has added Fanar to its network of evening shift branches in order to extend services to client according...
DOHA:The net profit of Islamic Holding Group touched QR16.1m for the full-year 2014, up 78 percent compared to QR9m posted a year ago....
People walk past a building in downtown Yangon where Myanmar’s government hopes to locate the country’s first stock exchange. Yangon: Myanmar’s deputy finance...
A sign at a JPMorgan Chase building in New York. New York: JPMorgan Chase yesterday reported a dip in fourth-quarter earnings as hefty...
