SYDNEY: Embattled Qantas Airways Ltd was relegated to junk status by credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s yesterday, a day after the Australian...
SYDNEY: Embattled Qantas Airways Ltd was relegated to junk status by credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s yesterday, a day after the Australian...
WASHINGTON: US employers hired more workers than expected in November and the jobless rate fell to a five-year low of 7 percent, heightening...
LONDON: Booming housing markets in emerging Asia have pushed global residential property prices to a new peak, according to a report yesterday. Consultancy...
SYDNEY: The Kuala Lumpur-based Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) is revising guidelines on the supervision of Islamic finance institutions around the world, helping...
India's Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma arriving WTO meeting. NUSA DUA: Ministers appeared close to sealing the world’s biggest trade reform for...
A man walks past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai yesterday. The rupee rose to a five-week high against the dollar...
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping exchange documents during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People,...
DUBAI: A unit of Dubai World has sold its Atlantis resort, which sits on a palm tree-shaped island in the Gulf, in an...
LONDON: Britain will impose a capital gains tax on foreign property investors from 2015 in a bid to allay fears that wealthy foreign...
NUSA DUA: India yesterday shrugged off mounting pressure to compromise in a global impasse over food security that has cast the future of...
ISTANBUL: Qatar is considering investing in Turkey’s Afsin-Elbistan coal-fired power plant project, which the United Arab Emirates dropped out of this year, the...
DOHA: Qatari stocks showed marginal gains last week as the country’s main index inched up 14.04 points (0.14 percent) to 10,389.10. The trading...
NUSA DUA: India yesterday shrugged off mounting pressure to compromise in a global impasse over food security that has cast the future of...
VIENNA: Iran’s leading oil negotiator says Tehran wants Western oil companies to revive its giant ageing oilfields and develop new oil and gas...
DUBAI: Qatar Central Bank plans to issue QR3bn ($824m) worth of local currency government bonds and QR1bn of sukuk next week, it said...
LONDON/ANKARA: Turkey’s gold imports have surged to their highest on record so far this year after a hefty drop in bullion prices, with...
By Ole Hansen (Head of Commodity Strategy, Saxo Bank) The annual celebration of Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November put a dampener...
Qatar’s Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada attending the 164th Ministerial meeting of the Opec in...