NICOSIA: International lenders yesterday began their third assessment of the Cyprus economy to see if Nicosia is upholding its obligations under a bailout...
NICOSIA: International lenders yesterday began their third assessment of the Cyprus economy to see if Nicosia is upholding its obligations under a bailout...
LONDON: Justin King will step down as chief executive of British grocer J Sainsbury in July after a decade at the helm, with...
Doha: Qatar Exchange index ended its losing streak yesterday adding 73.10 points, or 0.65 percent to advance to 11,243.35 points from 11,170.25 on...
DUBAI: A unit of Dubai Holding, owned by the emirate’s ruler, has sold a piece of land to fast-growing shopping mall developer Majid...
LONDON: Barclays will close bank branches in Britain “over time” due to changes in technology and customer behaviour, but has no plans for...
ZURICH: Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis yesterday announced that its net profit fell one percent in 2013 to $9.2bn (¤6.8bn), blaming the impact of...
ABU DHABI: First Gulf Bank increased its 2013 dividend payout by 20 percent after posting record quarterly earnings, as the United Arab Emirates’...
Officials exchanging documents during the signing ceremony. DOHA: Nakilat, Qatar’s premier gas transporter, has secured a $669m facility from QNB Group for the...
Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani (left) Chairman, Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the President of the Cyprus Chamber...
DOHA: Ahli Bank, Qatar’s seventh largest lender by market value, is taking steps for long-term expansion plans. In keeping with the bank’s strategic...
The Minister of Economy and Trade and Head of the Qatari delegation, H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani, during...
An assembly line worker attaches the bumper onto the body of a Toyota Aqua, the world’s cheapest and most fuel-efficient conventional hybrid car,...
Containers are unloaded from a cargo ship docked at a container terminal in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. Japan reported its largest-ever annual trade loss...
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s central bank, fighting to defend the lira, sent strong signals yesterday that it is about to raise interest rates in a...
Steel products stacked at a steelworks in Seoul yesterday. South Korean steelmaker Posco, backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, reported a smaller-than-expected 29...
LONDON: Britain’s economy grew at the fastest rate last year since before the financial crisis but output dipped in the final quarter of...
DOHA: Qatar Petroleum (QP) and UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, have signed a joint research agreement on “process optimisation of CO2 and sulphur...
NEW YORK: US crude oil futures rose nearly $2 yesterday, narrowing their discount to European Brent as traders expected data to show supplies...
