Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim (centre) looks on after his arrival at the Starlite Charity Gala in Marbella, near Malaga, southern Spain. Slim...
Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim (centre) looks on after his arrival at the Starlite Charity Gala in Marbella, near Malaga, southern Spain. Slim...
DUBAI: Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO) has rejected a $3.2bn takeover offer from a US private equity firm for its pay-television subsidiary OSN, the...
SHANGHAI: Chinese regulators are investigating a Wal-Mart store in the southern city of Shenzhen for food safety violations, the official Xinhua news service...
CAIRO: Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation jumped to 10.6 percent in July from 8.2 percent in June, the official statistics agency CAPMAS said...
Protesters hold up signs during a demonstration at Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo’s (BES) headquarters office in downtown Lisbon. Portugal will promote a...
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (left) at a RBI meeting in New Delhi yesterday. NEW DELHI: India’s central bank...
NEW DELHI: India’s top crime fighting body is investigating a $155m loan by a state-run bank to debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines, a police official...
LONDON: Regulatory pressure to undo the traditional way brokers sell research alongside share dealing is alarming traders in Europe, who fear a further...
SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank cut its growth forecasts as it reinforced a “period of stability” in interest rates and highlighted the challenges the...
Kuwait City: Kuwaiti Agility company has realised a net profit of KD12.9m ($45.58m) in the second quarter of 2014, marking a rise of...
A man walks past a row of General Motors vehicles at a dealership in Detroit. MARIETTA: General Motors failed to convince a Georgia...
Customers select drinks at a supermarket in Handan, China’s Hebei province. BEIJING: China’s buoyant exports pushed its trade surplus to a record in...
VALENCIA: Though it is the middle of the work day, the Jeep assembly plant in the central Venezuelan city of Valencia is empty,...
BEIJING: China’s annual inflation rose 2.3 percent in July, official data showed on Saturday, remaining stable and allowing authorities space to further stimulate...
SOFIA: Excellent IT and language skills have helped Bulgaria’s outsourcing sector boom, raising hopes that it could prop up the badly stagnating economy...
LONDON: British infrastructure company Balfour Beatty and construction firm Carillion have resumed talks on a possible £3bn ($5bn) merger deal, the Sunday Times...
DOHA: Sheikh Fahad bin Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani (pictured), Chairman of Doha Bank Board of Directors has been honored with the “Best...
Doha: The global economy continues to stumble along, says the weekly report by the QNB Group. According to the latest IMF World Economic...
