World Business

A state income tax bill introduced by Rep. Donna Hicks would cut taxes by one percent over the next four...

BUDAPEST: Hungarian poultry processing firm Gallicoopʼs saw a 4% rise in revenue last year, to HUF 33.6 bln, with output...

MADRID: The registered people figures of unemployed in Spain fell by almost 119,000 during April to 4.33 million, but despite...

VICTORIA: The port has submitted an environmental impact statement for a new three-berth container terminal in Delta, British Columbia. The...

BUENOS AIRES: YPF SA, Argentina’s largest company, said first-quarter profit fell 26 percent after the government cut gasoline prices amid...

ABUJA: Nigeria’s central bank started talks with banks and currency dealers on how to loosen foreign-exchange trading restrictions while still...

CARACAS: The Venezuela division of Ford Motor Co will begin selling vehicles only in dollars in the coming months, two...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico produced and exported record numbers of vehicles in April as the auto industry remained among the country’s...

NEW YORK: Mexico is emerging as a key new marketplace for US natural gas, as government-backed reforms open up the...

OTTAWA: The European Union recently delivered what Canada’s grain and oilseed sector views as a good news-bad news announcement on...

BAKU: The bi-currency basket, revived by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, does not describe fully the disposition of currencies of...

FRANKFURT: German media giant Axel Springer’s operating profit increased by 1.2 per cent to 119.8 million euros ($136 million) in...

PARIS: In a bid to cut one billion euro costs by 2017, France’s nuclear group Areva has announced to lay...

GENEVA: The chief executive and finance chief of world's biggest temporary staffing group Adecco have announced to quit even the...

THE HAGUE: One of the biggest Dutch banks, ING, has announced 1.77 billion euros ($2.0 billion) profits for the first...

PARIS: Despite Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s revenues have risen 45 per cent to $2.811 billion as its mobile revenue showing...

HAVANA: The US Government has approved ferry services between Florida and Cuba, resuming the operations after a hiatus of more...

QUITO: Tourist arrivals in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands increased 6 percent in 2014 to 215,691, with foreigners accounting for 70 percent,...

ATHENS: BNP Paribas SA Chairman Jean Lemierre urged an agreement between policymakers and Greece on keeping the nation in the...

TORONTO: Canadian Tire Corp. says it has a deal to buy 12 real estate leases through the court-supervised windup of...