World Business

WASHINGTON: January 2017 recorded a surge in unemployment in crisis-battered Greece, while a continuing decrease in average salaries in the...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico's core annual inflation rate in early February rose faster than expected to a nearly seven-year high, the...

WASHINGTON: The latest CSO jobs figures indicate unemployment has fallen significantly over the past year. The figures from the CSO’s...

KAMPALA: Up to 65,000 Ugandans are doing odd jobs in the Middle East, the Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies...

WASHINGTON: Seasonality will drag down specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor's (VIS) revenues in the first quarter of 2017, which...

WASHINGTON: Oregon legislators received a relatively rosy economic forecast Wednesday morning, with revenue projections up for the current state budget...

JEFFERSON CITY: Missouri's unemployed would again face losing several weeks of jobless benefits under a bill advancing in the state...

WASHINGTON: CoreLogic wrapped up 2016 with double-digit revenue growth for the fourth quarter and full year thanks to success in...

HARARE: The country’s import bill dropped to $384,6 million last month from the December 2016 figure of $489,4 million, data...

JAIPUR: For the first time, Rajasthan government will roll out an exports policy with an objective to double the shipments...

WASHINGTON: Argentina's central bank kept its monetary policy rate unchanged at 24.75 percent for the twelfth consecutive week on Tuesday,...

ABUJA: Nigeria's distributable government revenues rose in January by 16 percent to 465.19 billion naira ($1.5 billion) as it brought...

TUSCALOOSA: Exports from Alabama-made products totaled nearly $20.6 billion last years, according to the governor's office. The number is a...

ACKSON: Mississippi casinos stumbled in 2017's first month, winning almost 7 percent less from gamblers. State Revenue Department figures show...

ABUJA: Back in 2011, Nigerians bemoaned the government’s plan to deregulate the downstream oil sector and remove petrol subsidies. But...

WASHINGTON: Unemployment in Slovakia continued to decrease in January. The registered unemployment rate in Slovakia stood at 8.64 percent in...

MINSK: Street protests against a tax on adults who are not in full-time work spread from Belarus's capital Minsk to...

WASHINGTON: The mobile game publisher Supercell reported revenues of $2.3 billion last year, more than in 2015 ($2.1 billion). Despite...

WASHINGTON: The unemployment rate in Singapore remained low at 2.1 per cent in 2016, said Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat...

HARARE: The imports are harming Zimbabwe’s attempts to improve food security by boosting local production, Tafadzwa Musarara, the chairman of...