DOHA: Heightened regulatory scrutiny and greater concerns over risk governance have led financial institutions to elevate their focus and attention on risk management,...
DOHA: Heightened regulatory scrutiny and greater concerns over risk governance have led financial institutions to elevate their focus and attention on risk management,...
THE HAGUE: The Dutch government yesterday told nationalised lender ABN Amro to get itself ready to be sold off within one year, despite...
LONDON: Brent crude rose above $110 a barrel yesterday, buoyed by upbeat business surveys that suggested the global economy is on the mend...
HONG KONG: Asian markets firmed yesterday as a slew of upbeat manufacturing data from around the globe offset concerns about the US Federal...
MANILA: The Philippines should weather the unwinding of the US Federal Reserve’s stimulus programme, a central bank official said yesterday, as market jitters...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Representatives from countries negotiating a free trade pact that will cover nearly 40 percent of global economic output said yesterday...
Boys run near a sand sculpture of the Indian Rupee created by sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik at the sea beach in Puri, yesterday. ...
MOSCOW: Russia called for calm yesterday after the ruble hit a four-year low point against the euro amid fears of an imminent end...
LONDON: A sharp-eyed employee of Britain’s John Lewis Partnership helped uncover a seven-year salary underpayment to staff that will cost the retailer £40m...
NEW YORK: Oil prices on both sides of the Atlantic edged higher yesterday as data from the United States, China and the euro...
NEW YORK/LONDON: Business surveys yesterday suggested the world economy was on the mend, with US and Chinese manufacturing activity at multi-month highs and...
PARIS: France’s economy is weakening again, a survey of leading indicators suggested yesterday, just a week after the country boasted a return to...
NEW YORK: Trading in shares of more than 3,000 US companies listed by Nasdaq, including Google, Apple and Microsoft, was abruptly halted shortly...
DOHA: Banks lifted Qatari bourse to a near five year high as the benchmark index rose 0.44 percent to advance to 10,109.50 yesterday....
Customers at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Indebted, commodity-dependent Malaysia was in investors’ crosshairs yesterday as heavy selling of Indonesian and...
A worker from the Libyan Oil and Gas national company walks at the Hariqa oil port storage in Tobruk, Libya, yesterday. Libya’s navy...
LONDON: Britain’s North Sea energy output will fall this year more sharply than forecast in February as ageing fields grow less productive and...
LONDON: British lender Lloyds Banking Group has sold German life insurer Heidelberger Leben to private equity group Cinven and reinsurer Hannover Re for...
