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Sales at Giorgio Armani jumped 34 per cent in the first half of 2021 as business in China and the United States helped the Italian fashion group bounce back, despite worries about ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff said on Sunday he fears the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany could soar to 100,000 a day in about two months unless ...

Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX was awarded a $178 million launch services contract for NASA’s first mission focusing on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and whether it may ...

Cryptocurrencies popped to the top of recent ranges on Monday as short sellers bailed out in the wake of a strong week and while traders hoped a handful of positive ...

Britain’s retailers could open thousands of local high street stores over the next 12 months as people start to step out again after months of coronavirus curbs, according to research ...

It will take 20 years to repay borrowings by the UK government for pandemic spending, reports released on Friday showed. The British government will be exposed to financial risks from its £372 ...

Bitcoin has fallen to about half its record high in April of $63,000, and it’s been holding in that range for some time. A rebound is expected by many analysts, ...

Twitter on Thursday reported higher revenue growth than Wall Street had expected, as the social media platform rolled out ad targeting improvements to help brands reach potential customers. Shares of ...

A new worldwide wave of COVID-19. Natural disasters in China and Germany. A cyber attack targeting key South African ports. Events have conspired to drive global supply chains towards breaking ...

Moody’s ratings agency has upgraded Cyprus’ sovereign rating to Ba1 from Ba2 and changed its outlook to stable from positive on a decrease in banking sector risks and the ...

By Elena Hadjidemetriou and Dr. Louisa Borg Haviaras What went wrong at Dankse Bank? In 2018, Denmark’s largest bank, admitted that its Estonian branch had moved more than $230 billion from ...

The owner of the discount chains Pepco, Poundland and Dealz, Pepco Group , plans to create about 13,000 net new jobs across Europe over the next three years as it aggressively opens ...

British retail sales resumed their post-lockdown recovery in June after a surprise fall in May, as soccer fans watching the Euro 2020 tournament loaded up on food and drink to enjoy ...

Eurozone business activity expanded at its fastest monthly pace in over two decades in July as the loosening of more COVID-19 restrictions gave a boost to services but fears of ...

Eurobank on Friday announced the acquisition of a 9.9 per cent holding (40,800,000 shares) in Hellenic Bank, according to a statement released on Friday. It also announced entering into a share purchase ...

The European Central Bank pledged on Thursday to keep interest rates at record lows for even longer to boost sluggish inflation and warned that the rapidly spreading Delta variant of ...

Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has on Wednesday upgraded Bank of Cyprus Public Company Limited’s (Bank of Cyprus) and Hellenic Bank Public Company Ltd’s (Hellenic Bank) long-term ...

The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 has dropped to 39 percent in Israel, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday. The Pfizer vaccine is also only 41 per ...

Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler plans to invest more than 40 billion euros ($47 billion) by 2030 to be ready to take on Tesla in an all-electric car market, but warned the shift in technology ...

Italian luxury boss Brunello Cucinelli is offering six months of paid leave to a handful of employees who have refused to vaccinate in order to protect workers who have taken ...

Britain’s government on Thursday unveiled a blueprint for returning NatWest (NWG.L) to majority private ownership within a year, more than a decade since bailing out the lender at ...

Zurich-based EFG Bank, present in Limassol and Nicosia, saw IFRS net profit triple to CHF 106.5 million (€98.4 million) on CHF 629.3 million (€581.2 million) in revenue for the first half of 2021, according to ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Joe Biden on Thursday reached an agreement on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will carry gas from Russia to Europe, bypassing Ukraine, on ...

Airline passengers are fed up with confusion at airports due to Covid-19 health checks, and want to see a unified global system put in place. This is according to a ...