DUBAI: Bahrain’s stock market is the worst-performing in the region this year, but it has a major attraction: ultra-high dividend yields. Unfortunately, the...
DUBAI: Bahrain’s stock market is the worst-performing in the region this year, but it has a major attraction: ultra-high dividend yields. Unfortunately, the...
DUBAI: Supplies of gas from Turkmenistan to Iran have been halted due to a dispute over purchasing terms, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi...
SAN FRANCISCO: Shares of Facebook Inc jumped as much as 11.2 percent yesterday, even as the biggest block of shares held by insiders...
By Ole Hansen (Head of Commodity Strategy, Saxo Bank) Commodity markets have initially stabilised following the US presidential election last Tuesday with the...
Wael Sawan (left) and Ibrahim J Al Othman during the signing ceremony. DOHA: Qatar Shell signed a third agreement with Gulf Drilling International...
London: The Chairman of Qatar’s Administrative Control and Transparency Authority (ACTA), H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, participated yesterday in the oil...
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Global Investment House (GIH) said yesterday that three of its creditors had failed to back a $1.7bn debt restructuring plan and...
DUBAI: United Arab Emirates-based Crescent Petroleum is gearing up for expansion in the Iraqi oil and gas sector and a debut into Libya...
Doha: Qatar Exchange was down yesterday 48.73 points or 0.57 percent to 8,445.61 points from the previous closing of 8,494.34. The volume of...
DUBAI: First Gulf Bank, the second-largest lender by market value in the United Arab Emirates, has signed a three-year $900m loan with a...
By Satish Kanady DUBAI: Sony, the leading consumer electronics and entertainment brand, has unveiled three of its latest cameras: the Alpha SLT-A99, the...
ZHUHAI, China: China unveiled 50 new orders for its COMAC C919 passenger jet at the opening of the country’s main air show and...
LONDON: Vodafone wrote down the value of its business in Spain and Italy by £5.9bn ($9.4bn) and lowered its cash flow forecast as...
Doha: To help mobilise the Gulf region’s plans for infrastructural advancement, a second series of lectures at the fifth annual ‘Bridges Middle East’...
LONDON: The British government pledged yesterday to pursue firm action against anyone involved in manipulation of the country’s wholesale gas market, if recent...
DOHA: Financial services have a major role to play in diversifying Qatar’s economy and the country has made good progress in that direction....
DUBAI/PARIS: Societe Generale is nearing the sale of its majority stake in an Egyptian bank to Qatar National Bank (QNB), sources familiar with...
NEW YORK: Brent crude prices slipped yesterday in choppy trading, as concerns about US fiscal problems offset tensions in the Middle East and...
