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Swiss watch exports down 16.1% in March

23/04/2016

LONDON: The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (FH) reports that Swiss watch exports had their lowest March figures since...

ZABS urges to monitor fruit imports

23/04/2016

HARARE: Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba has called on Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) to intensify inspection...

Caterpillar posts lower net in Q1

23/04/2016

VIRGINIA: Caterpillar Inc yesterday reported a net income of US$494 million in the first quarter of this year, down from...

Kentucky’s unemployment rate rises

FRANKFORT: State officials say unemployment rates increased in 65 of Kentucky’s 120 counties between March 2015 and March 2016. The...

Bangko Sentral tracks Q1 inflation at 1.1%

LONDON: Headline inflation inched up to 1.1 percent in the first three months of the year on the back of...

Unemployment rate up in Chicago area

WASHINGTON: The jobless rate rose in the Chicago area and across the state in March, as more people entered the...

Revenue officers seize almost 250,000 cigarettes in Dublin Port

WASHINGTON: Revenue officers in Dublin Port seized almost 250,000 cigarettes yesterday, it has emerged. The smuggled cigarettes, branded Marlboro Gold,...

Egyptian imports decline by 27% in Jan-Feb

LONDON: Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Tarek Qabil announced Egypt’s non-oil exports rose to US$1.891bn in March, up from...

Shoals unemployment at 6.8%

WASHINGTON: The unemployment rate in the Shoals fell to 6.8 percent in March, according to preliminary figures from the Alabama...

Zimbabwe trade deficit narrows in Q1

HARARE: Zimbabwe's trade deficit narrowed in the first quarter after a drop was experienced on both sides of the trade...

Armenia oil imports down by 8% in 2015

WASHINGTON: Armenia cut import of oil and oil products in 2015, building up natural gas imports instead, the country’s customs...

Portugal places 1.1 bln euros in treasury bonds at record low rates

LISBON: Portugal placed 1.1 billion euros (1.25 billion U.S. dollars) in three and 11-month treasury bonds on Wednesday, according to...

Coca-Cola revenue drops by 4% to $10.3bn in Q1

ATLANTA: Coca-Cola reported a dip in first-quarter profit yesterday as the strong US dollar weighed on results in some of...

Central Ohio’s unemployment rate dips to 4.4% in March

LONDON: More than 1 million people are now working in the central Ohio region. The number of workers, or those...

Argentina sees monthly inflation near 1% by year-end

WASHINGTON: Monthly inflation rates in Argentina that surged above 3 percent early this year according to regional figures should fall...

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, ISRAEL - MARCH 28: In this handout image provided by Albatross, The Tamar drilling natural gas production platform is seen some 25 kilometers West of the Ashkelon shore on March 28, 2013 in Israel. The offshore Tamar drilling site which was originally dispatched from a shipyard in Texas at the end of last year is due to start producing natural gas next week. Over the past few years Israel has suffered from a shortage in natural gas, but with the new platform that weighs 34,000 tons and will be mainly operated by Israelis, the US company Nobel Energy which owns a 36% stake in Tamar, hopes to change Israel's energy situation as well as the economy as a whole. (Photo Photo by Albatross via Getty Images)

Egypt’s Zohr gas field to produce 1 bln cubic feet per day

CAIRO: Egypt has agreed with Italy's Eni to begin production of 1 billion cubic feet per day of gas at...

Zim’s manufacturing sector exports buckle under pressure

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector has been buckling under the pressure of a challenging operating environment for more than a decade...

Azerbaijan decreases oil export by 15%

BAKU: The share of crude oil in Azerbaijan’s overall export made up 76.01% for Jan-Mar 2016 against 77.61% for 2015,...

STEP sees growth in foreign exports

WASHINGTON: Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership is pointing to tremendous growth in foreign exports since the group was formed 20...

Intel to cut 12,000 jobs or 11% of workforce globally