New cars of Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche ready for shipping in the harbour of Bremerhaven, Germany. German industrial orders posted a surprise...
New cars of Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche ready for shipping in the harbour of Bremerhaven, Germany. German industrial orders posted a surprise...
PARIS: France showed a sharply reduced trade deficit of ¤4.69bn ($6.1bn) in March from ¤6.01bn in February, owing mainly to the sale of...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia should cut energy subsidies that are burdening public finances, the economy minister and the head of the state-run utility said,...
LONDON: Global oil prices fell yesterday as dealers took profits after a recent rally on robust US jobs data and rising tensions in...
DOHA: The Ministry of Business and Trade is organising a conference on corporate social responsibility on May 28 and 29 at the Ritz-Carlton....
From left: Wakeel Khalid from Qatar Steel Company, Dr John Lawler of WJE Associates-USA, Abdulrahman Abdulla Al Ansari of Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company,...
Employees of Romania’s largest listed bank BRD, controlled by France’s Societe Generale, talk on a terrace of the bank headquarters in Bucharest yesterday....
Kuwait: Dow Chemical Co has received $2.2bn in damages from Kuwait’s state chemicals company, bringing an end to a more than four-year dispute...
BAGHDAD/ARBIL: A lasting solution to Iraq’s dispute with its Kurdish north is unlikely even if recent talks between the two sides lead to...
ABU DHABI: Emirates Aluminium (Emal), a joint venture between Abu Dhabi investment fund Mubadala and Dubai Aluminium, is planning a further smelter expansion...
SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank cut interest rates to a record low 2.75 percent yesterday as investment in the Asia-driven mining sector hits its...
Chairman of Nokia Board, Risto Siilasmaa, opens the shareholders meeting in Helsinki, Finland, yesterday. HELSINKI: Nokia investors told Chief Executive Stephen Elop yesterday...
Doha: Qatar Exchange continued its rising streak yesterday, adding 11.52 points or 0.13 percent to advance to 8,845.65 points from 8,834.13 on Monday....
BEIJING: China’s new batch of leaders may quicken the process of making the yuan fully convertible over the next few years to boost...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is finalising a regulatory framework which will allow foreigners to directly own stocks in the kingdom, though the market has...
BRUSSELS: Even as it seeks free trade deals with the United States and Japan, the EU sees little near-term prospect of a similar...
Christine Lagarde (seated at podium, right), Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gives a lecture at the ‘Room for Discussion’ forum in...
LISBON: Portugal got a boost from investors yesterday when it returned to the long-term debt market for the first time since obtaining bailout...
