KUWAIT: Property experts predict that the domestic real-estate market will be stable in the second half of this year due...

JAKARTA: State-owned airport operator Angkasa Pura II (AP II) is seeking Rp 2 trillion (US$150 million) in state capital injection...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has run budget deficit of 6.1 percent of gross domestic product or 180 billion rupees in the...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs today detected a sea-bound cargo smuggling case and seized about 4 000 kilograms of suspected...

MOSCOW: Wealthy Russian families lost between 25 and 75 percent of their income in 2015, the Vedomosti business daily reported...

PARIS: Paris-based investment bank Rothschild & Co. (PIEJF) announced significantly stronger performance in both operating profit and revenue for the...

WATERLOO: BlackBerry had a US$670 million net loss in the first quarter of its 2017 financial year, but says its...

WASHINGTON: America’s civil and criminal crackdown on offshore accounts continues, as a former Credit Suisse banker plead guilty helping U.S....

TOKYO: The dollar plunged below 100 against the yen, Asian stocks cratered and gold prices surged Friday as financial markets...

LONDON/FRANKFURT: European stocks rallied Thursday on expectations U.K. voters will choose to stick with membership in the European Union. The...

TORONTO: Canada's benchmark stock index reached a nearly two-week high on Thursday, led by financial and energy stocks after a...

NEW YORK: U.S. stock index futures dipped sharply lower Thursday evening ET as results from the British referendum continued to...

GENEVA: UBS Group AG has ended a legal fight with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), agreeing to hand over records...

LONDON: Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, yesterday reported a second successive quarter of UK underlying sales growth, the first time it...

TAIPEI: The Financial Supervisory Commission yesterday said Taiwanese insurance firms’ offshore insurance units (OIU) had collected an estimated US$33.67 million...

OSLO: The European Central Bank (ECB) has restored a key waiver that will let Greek banks tap cheap emergency central...

HANOI: From the beginning of 2016 to June 15, Vietnam saw a trade surplus of some 1.36 billion U.S. dollars,...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's consumer price index in May fell again by 1.6 percent, the 19th straight month of decline, according to...

BRUSSELS: Political and economic uncertainty dampened eurozone private sector business activity in June, a closely watched survey showed yesterday. Data...

BEIJING: China’s debt defaults will not pose a systemic risk as long as economic growth stays within a reasonable range,...