BEIJING: China’s manufacturing growth fell to an eight-month low in February, official figures showed yesterday, in a further sign of the flagging strength...
BEIJING: China’s manufacturing growth fell to an eight-month low in February, official figures showed yesterday, in a further sign of the flagging strength...
People walk past a board of an exchange counter in central Kiev yesterday. LONDON: Europe’s main stock markets closed stable or moderately higher...
Promotion girls pose during the opening ceremony of the first bitcoin retail shop in Hong Kong yesterday. HONG KONG: A shop selling the...
A staff checks clothes at a store in Tokyo yesterday. Japan’s core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes fresh food prices but includes...
LONDON: The official measure of Britain’s trillion-pound government debt will rise by more than £100bn ($167bn) in September, as part of a major...
LONDON: Anti-fraud police have arrested 110 people in Europe and the United States in an international crackdown on gangs selling bogus shares that...
WASHINGTON: The US economy grew more slowly late last year than previously thought, but there was enough vigour that the Federal Reserve will...
NEW DELHI: India’s economy grew by a sluggish 4.7 percent in the last quarter of 2013, data showed yesterday, marking more bad news...
SHANGHAI: China’s yuan currency fell nearly one percent against the US dollar in intra-day trade yesterday, its biggest drop in years, before recovering...
LONDON: Opec’s oil output has risen further in February from December’s two-and-a-half-year low, due to more shipments from Iraq and Angola, and further...
Doha: Qatar Exchange (QE) index dropped 100.57 points, 0.85 percent, last week when trading closed at 11,771.83 points yesterday. The trading value of...
Spanish Vicomtech-IK4 research centre’s Director of Transport Smart Systems Dept, Oihana Otaegui (left), and M3 Systems’ Delegate Olivier Desefans on Taxisat, a driver-less...
Workers leave the Standard Life House in Edinburgh, Scotland, yesterday. The insurance and pension heavyweight said it could move partly out of Scotland...
CAIRO: Egypt’s central bank left official interest rates on hold yesterday, as it tries to stimulate an economy hurt by three years of...
WASHINGTON: Sony is closing 20 US retail stores as part of the streamlining of the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant. The company said...
SINGAPORE: An airline owned by Indonesia’s Lion Group announced yesterday it will launch international services with a flight from Jakarta to Singapore later...
DUBAI: Dubai’s gold exchange and one of its biggest gold refineries have denied reports alleging they ignored international guidelines designed to prevent human...
DUBAI: Middle East fund managers remain bullish on most of the region’s major equity markets, but some are shifting money from the United...
