ABUJA: Nigeria yesterday became Africa’s biggest economy, leap-frogging South Africa, after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product....
ABUJA: Nigeria yesterday became Africa’s biggest economy, leap-frogging South Africa, after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product....
LONDON: The founder of Britain’s Sports Direct has bought an 11 percent stake in House of Fraser, a source close to the deal...
DUBAI: Dubai’s gold trading centre said it would tighten supervision of how the metal is sourced after reports in the British media alleging...
KUWAIT: Kuwait Food Co (Americana) is not aware of any potential stake sale by its majority shareholder, its chairman said yesterday. Sources said...
BERLIN: Gazprom will honour its deals to supply gas to Germany, a newspaper reported a senior executive of the Russian exporter as saying,...
London: The global economy seemed to be on the mend when the International Monetary Fund met for its spring meeting in Washington 10...
ACAPULCO: Mexico hopes to hold onto a flexible credit line with the International Monetary Fund worth around $72bn in order to help protect...
BERLIN: A pilots’ strike in Germany last week has highlighted the power comparatively small groups of employees have to lay low key areas...
Seoul: A weak yen hurt South Korean consumer goods exports to Japan and influenced bilateral tourism trends last year, a report by an...
The United States Fed chair Janet Yellen surprised the markets with unexpectedly dovish comments about the economy. Yellen noted that the Federal Reserve...
By Ole Hansen (Head of Commodity Strategy, Saxo Bank) Commodities generally experienced a quiet beginning to April with much of the attention focusing...
BY SACHIN KUMAR Doha: The London Stock Exchange is wooing Qatari companies to get listed on the exchange to get global exposure. The...
A combination picture of Vivendi’s and Numericable’s logo. PARIS: Vivendi yesterday accepted a bid by French cable and fibre-optic network operator Numericable worth...
Los Angeles: Amazon.com Inc launched a new product named Amazon Dash that allows the user to add groceries and household goods to their...
The site of the Laffan Refinery’s Diesel Hydrotreater Project. Doha: Laffan Refinery’s Diesel Hydrotreater (DHT) Project recently celebrated five million man-hours without a...
DOHA: Commercial Bank’s Al Waseela Fund has won the prestigious ‘Qatar Equity Fund of the Year’ award at the annual Mena Fund Manager...
A visitor uses an ergonomic tablet computer designed for senior citizens at the Senior and Retirement Show in Paris.
People wait in a queue outside a branch of Chernomorskiy Bank of Development and Reconstruction in the Crimean city of Simferopol yesterday. KIEV:...
