People use an escalator as they pass in front of an advertisement sign at a subway station in Shanghai yesterday. More Chinese manufacturers...
People use an escalator as they pass in front of an advertisement sign at a subway station in Shanghai yesterday. More Chinese manufacturers...
Farmers collect produce in the Khiyam valley at the Lebanese-Israeli border, southern Lebanon, yesterday.
Tim Hortons employees prepare coffee prior to the company’s annual general meeting in Toronto. MIAMI: Burger King is in talks to buy doughnut...
Satish Kanady DOHA: Qatar’s listed companies recorded better-than-expected profits during the second quarter of 2014 (Q2, 14), but saw a nince percent year-on-year...
NEW YORK: Brent crude oil rose yetserday and US crude fell in light trading, as support from geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and Libya...
WASHINGTON: Sales of new US single-family homes fell for a second straight month in July, but a surge in the stock of properties...
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina will appeal a World Trade Organisation ruling against its use of import restrictions, according to a senior Argentine official. On...
OSLO: Norwegian energy group Statoil said yesterday it intended to continue its partnership with Russia’s Rosneft, despite Western economic sanctions imposed on Moscow...
GENEVA: IMF chief Christine Lagarde wants Germany to play a bigger role in propelling economic recovery in Europe, she hinted in an interview...
LISBON: The corporate empire of Portugal’s Espirito Santo family issued ¤5bn ($6.6bn) of new debt in the first six months of 2014, according...
A man walks past in front of a cigarettes store displaying an advertisement of Mevius, one of Japan Tobacco Inc’s brands in Tokyo,...
A man walks past in front of a cigarettes store displaying an advertisement of Mevius, one of Japan Tobacco Inc’s brands in Tokyo,...
A fuel station worker talks with his colleague as he holds a placard informing customers that fuel subsidy has run out at a...
MUMBAI: The rupee fell yeserday, retreating from a three-week high hit last week, as the dollar gained after US Federal Reserve chief Janet...
NEW YORK: The S&P 500 topped the 2,000 mark for the first time yesterday helped by more promises of economic support from the...
SOFIA: The majority owner of Bulgaria’s troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) said yesterday it was working with Oman’s sovereign wealth fund and other...
JOHANNESBURG/LONDON: Platinum producer Lonmin aims to cut around 5,700 jobs, about 21 percent of its South African workforce, as part of a drive...
The logo of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche outside their headquarters in Basel. ZURICH: Shares in pharmaceutical group Roche rose yesterday after the Swiss...
