World Business
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Volkswagen sales drop 3% in France
PARIS: Volkswagen saw sales drop 3 percent in France last month, figures showed yesterday, as it continued to deal with...
Florida exports fall 10.9% in August 2015
WASHINGTON: Exports of manufactured goods contributed significantly to the state’s international trade, accounting for 75 percent of all state exports...
BMW profit rises 20% to $1.74bn in 3Q
BERLIN: BMW beat expectations with a 20 percent increase in third-quarter net profit from a year earlier, as the German...
Macedonia’s FDI surges 6% to $9.48m in first eight months of 2015
SKOPJE: Macedonian Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) rose by 6.0 percent in the first eight months of 2015, statistics data show,...
Lithuania’s Butinge crude import rises 23% from 5.928MT in Jan-Oct
WASHINGTON: Lithuania's Butinge crude terminal handled 7.292 million tons of oil during the ten months through October 2015, up 23%...
GasLog Partners announces record high earnings
MONACO: Not all energy companies are suffering from the worst oil crash since the 1980s. Take, for example, LNG tanker...
Morocco’s auto industry exports likely to rise to $10b by 2020
RABAT: Morocco expects auto industry exports to reach an annual 100 billion dirhams ($10.2 billion) by 2020 as a result...
Rubber wood imports pressure in local market
KOCHI: Rising imports from China and other SE Asian countries is posing a threat to the domestic rubber wood industry...
Africa spends $35b on food imports: AfDB
AFRICA: The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has said the bill for food imports in Africa...
Zambia exports to Congo to hit 40%
LUSAKA: The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) says the country will increase exports to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to...
Shippers exports expected to grow 2% in 2016
WASHINGTON: Exporters have an optimistic view for 2016, predicting resumed growth of 2% after shipments fell in each of the...
Albania’s trade deficit dips 9.9% in Sept
TIRANA: Albania's trade deficit in September decreased by 9.9 percent in annual terms year-on-year, the Albanian Daily News reported Thursday....
LinkedIn revenue grows by 37% to $780m
NEW YORK: LinkedIn handily beat analyst expectations today with revenue of $780 million and earnings of 78 cents per share....
SolarCity Beat revenue to hit $111m in 3Q
WASHINGTON: Analysts expected SolarCity’s revenue to hit $111 million in third quarter 2015. But the solar energy company beat expectations...
Renault’s revenue rises 9.4% to $10.24bn in 3Q
PARIS: Renault SA reported a 9.4% rise in revenue as strong European demand and an increase in the French car...
Western Union revenue falls 2.9% to $1.4bn
NEW YORK: Western Union Co. on Thursday reported modest declines in net profit and revenue during its third quarter, as...
Shell suffers loss of $7.4bn in 3Q
LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell reported a third quarter loss of $7.4 billion yesterday as it reorganized and cancelled projects, including...
China exports 97,3m kg of tobacco this year
BEIJING: The country has so far exported 97,3 million kilogrammes of tobacco this year, up from 88,7 million kg over...
Algerian grain imports up 7.6% in last nine months: Customs data
ALGIERS: Algeria's grain imports reached 9.92 million tonnes in the first nine months of 2015, a 7.6 percent rise from...
Apple’s revenue rises 22% to $51.50bn
WASHINGTON: Apple's profit rose 31 percent to $11.1 billion in the final financial quarter of the year driven by booming...
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