A vendor counts Chinese yuan notes at a market in Beijing yesterday. BEIJING: Growth in China’s key industrial production accelerated to a five-month...
A vendor counts Chinese yuan notes at a market in Beijing yesterday. BEIJING: Growth in China’s key industrial production accelerated to a five-month...
PARIS: The International Energy Agency trimmed its outlook for oil demand over the next 18 months and highlighted threats to the dominance of...
MOSCOW: Russia’s economic growth was shown yesterday to have slowed sharply in the second quarter despite efforts by President Vladimir Putin to reverse...
PARIS: Iran has beefed up its oil tanker fleet with vessels from China and is selling more crude to Beijing as Tehran struggles...
LONDON: House prices in England and Wales reached an all-time peak in July, driven by strong demand in London, though purchases by first-time...
NEW YORK: The US Depar-tment of Justice has stepped up a probe in recent weeks into Bear Stearns mortgage dealings in the run-up...
THE HAGUE: Mexican telecom operator America Movil yesterday launched a bid for Dutch KPN, valuing it at ¤10.2bn ($13.6bn), putting KPN’s intended sale...
TOKYO: Japan’s eye-watering national debt has topped one quadrillion yen, official data showed yesterday, a record figure that underlines Tokyo’s struggle to curb...
LONDON: European markets closed higher yesterday, with mining stocks in particular receiving a boost from better-than-expected industrial output data from China, dealers said....
LONDON: The risk premium on Italian bonds hit its lowest since July 2011 yesterday, with the government’s solid funding position and signs the...
LONDON: Britain’s biggest retailer, supermarket chain Tesco, said yesterday that it is in exclusive talks over combining its Chinese operations with those of...
LONDON: Britain’s Environment Agency (EA) proposed new guidance yesterday that could further delay the already lengthy application process for launching shale and other...
PARIS: The International Energy Agency trimmed its outlook for oil demand over the next 18 months and highlighted threats to the dominance of...
LONDON: Looking beyond the problems of a region beset by regime change in Egypt, a security crisis in Yemen and civil war in...
BEIJING: China’s imports and exports showed an unexpected jump in July, government data showed yesterday in a positive sign for the world’s second-biggest...
NEW YORK: Crude oil prices on both sides of the Atlantic dropped sharply yesterday, falling for the fifth straight session as traders liquidated...
ATHENS: Greece’s jobless rate hit a new record high of 27.6 percent in May, official national data showed yesterday as the country staggers...
COPENHAGEN/LONDON: Chinese authorities have visited a site operated by Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk A/S, the world’s biggest maker of insulin, in the latest...
