Cyprus Business News

Before Covid, there were 1 billion vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the world. Covid is thought to have increased this number by 20 per cent. Tony Hollingsworth, a veteran producer, is managing ...

The ECB’s elusive inflation goal, currently set “below but close to 2 per cent”, seems almost certain to get a facelift and be set at 2 per cent, with a tolerance ...

Global cashless payment volumes are predicted to increase by more than 80 per cent from 2020 to 2025, from about 1 trillion transactions to almost 1.9 trillion, and to almost triple by 2030, according to a ...

Data from clinical trials of three experimental Alzheimer’s disease drugs expected to start emerging next year could help shed light on whether U.S. regulators were justified in their ...

Britain’s airlines and holiday companies are planning a “day of action” on Wednesday to ramp up pressure on the government to ease travel restrictions, with just weeks to go ...

How many colours do you need to describe the human race? Google is trying to find out. Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google told Reuters this week it is developing ...

Why do people always say, ‘I hate to say I told you so,’ when in fact we know they love it. So we will not hesitate to remind you that, ...

Cyprus ranked in 33rd place in the 2021 Institute for Management Development World Competitiveness Ranking Cyprus dropped three places in the ranking from the previous year, according to the survey which ...

Copyright trolls can turn to EU rules to demand compensation for infringed works on peer-to-peer networks but only if their requests are proportionate, Europe’s top court said on Thursday. ...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday signed a decree to create “green pass,” a digital proof that the holder is not infected by the coronavirus. The system, which became ...

Running is viewed as an isolated form of exercise. Limassol-based Fun Run Cyprus is here to change that perception by cultivating a community of like-minded people who help support each ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Optimism is rising high in the global economy for the recovery in 2021-22, and growth forecasts are being revised higher. The European Commission now expects real GDP ...

Bank of Cyprus announced on Thursday that it has successfully completed the issuance and sale of a €300 million high-priority bond through its European Medium-Term Bond Loan Program (EMTN Program), the ...

Federal Reserve officials signaled on Wednesday that they expected to raise interest rates from near-zero levels sooner than they had previously forecast. The euro and the pound both fell sharply ...

German supermarket chain Lidl captured a new record market share of 6.2 per cent across Europe during the previous year as the entire sector bucked wider retail trends for a strong ...

Cyta saw its highest after-tax profit in nine years of €70.8 million for the full year of 2020, and announced a positive outlook for its results in 2021, at a press conference on ...

The United States and the European Union have agreed a truce in their near 17-year conflict over aircraft subsidies, suspending for five years one set of Trump-era tariffs which had ...

A digital euro could suck away 8 per cent of euro zone banks’ customer deposits, analysts at Morgan Stanley have estimated, although the share may be far higher in some of ...

Turkey has just discovered another 135 billion cubic meters (bcm) natural gas in what is proving to be a prolific Sakarya gasfield in the Black Sea, raising the total discovered so ...

Cyprus is not a tax haven but it is a competitive investment destination due to the legal framework, investors, natural wealth and skilled labour, finance minister Constantinos Petridis told CNBC ...

Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) and General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Monday they are pushing ahead with developing flying cars, with the South Korean company expressing optimism it could ...

US Federal Reserve officials are expected to begin debate on tapering the Fed’s monthly asset purchases as soon as this week’s policy meeting, but the central bank is ...

Italians under the age of 60 who received a first dose of the AstraZeneca (AZN.L) Covid-19 vaccine, known as Vaxzevria, can be given a different vaccine when they get their ...

Lebanon’s currency crashed on Sunday reaching a new low against the dollar, as the country’s financial meltdown continues: Food is unaffordable, hospital are closed, petrol is unavailable, the ...