World Business

LONDON: Bitcoin has breached the $15,000 mark, extending the digital currency's record-breaking surge. The cryptocurrency began the year below $1,000...

FRANKFURT: German imports outpaced exports in October, slightly narrowing the country’s oft-criticised massive trade surplus, preliminary data showed Friday. Exports...

SINGAPORE: Bitcoin plunged as much as 15 percent to below $14,500 on profit-taking Friday, capping a roller-coaster week that saw...

TOKYO: Japan posted economic growth of 0.6 percent in the three months to September from the previous quarter, in new...

AMMAN: The World Bank on Wednesday approved a 200 million U.S. dollar project to help Jordan improve education for Jordanian...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico and the European Union are working to wrap up negotiations on a new version of their 17-year-old...

NEW YORK: Asian traders shifted cautiously on Tuesday with Chinese stocks swinging back and forth, while concerns grew about the...

LONDON: Britain’s lenders could support the economy through a “disorderly” Brexit, the Bank of England said Tuesday, as the sector...

ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he expects Turkish economy to grow by 7 percent in 2017. Addressing...

LONDON: The government is to highlight five key areas where the UK needs to improve its performance when it reveals...

SHANGHAI: The nation’s top 'blue chip' index stocks suffered their worst fall in 18 months in a collapse which will...

LONDON:  World stocks hovered below record highs on Friday, set to reverse two straight weeks of losses while the euro hit...

  SYEDNEY: Uber Technologies Inc paid hackers $100,000 to keep secret a massive breach last year that exposed the personal...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has refused to allow free use of the Chinese yuan on the lines of the US dollar in...

MOSCOW: Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.6 percent year-on-year in the first nine months, the country’s official statistic service...

  SINGAPORE: Oil markets were tepid on Monday as traders were reluctant to take on big new positions ahead of...

  OSLO: The Norwegian central bank, which runs the country’s sovereign wealth fund – the world’s biggest – has told...

  NEW YORK: U.S. crude oil is flooding into Asia, and may continue to do so as the arbitrage window...

  TORONTO: Sunwah International Limited, TSX: SWH (the "Company"), an Asian based financial services firm, today announced its financial results...

  ABU DHABI: United Arab Emirates Minister for Energy Suhail al-Mazroui said Monday that he expected OPEC and non-OPEC countries...