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President Joe Biden’s administration has prepared an initial package of sanctions against Russia that includes barring US financial institutions from processing transactions for major Russian banks, three people familiar ...

Oil prices fell on Monday, reversing course from strong initial gains, as news of fresh diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukraine crisis provided some relief from concerns about crude supply. ...

For more than a decade, Lebanon’s central bank charged commercial banks in the country commissions when they bought government securities without making clear that the bulk of those commissions ...

The euro rallied and the dollar retreated on Monday as investors pulled capital away from safe havens after US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in principle ...

British carmaker Lotus is planning a multibillion-pound flotation and the company is speaking to prospective investors, The Times reported, without citing the source of the information. Lotus is moving to ...

The United States and the United Arab Emirates are seeking an additional $4 billion of global investment in an initiative launched last year to make agriculture resilient to climate change and ...

Spotify Inc (SPOT.N) deepened its investment in podcasting with the acquisitions of Podsights and Chartable, two services that provide greater insights for advertisers and podcasting publishers, the Swedish company ...

Skiing in Lebanon has long been a luxury for the well-off, but the eastern Mediterranean country’s financial meltdown has thrown most people into poverty and made taking to the ...

Technology that merges the virtual and physical worlds could start to become a reality for consumers in a few years, Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) has told advertising ...

The United Arab Emirates’ plans for a corporate tax risk eroding one of its main attractions as the Gulf’s premier destination for foreign firms, at a time when Saudi ...

Singapore will begin implementing a long-flagged increase to its goods and services tax next year, its finance minister said in his budget speech on Friday, while also announcing a slew ...

Intel Corp’s latest focus on making chips to meet rising demand will give Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O), its biggest rival in the server and PC market, a ...

By Maria Demertzis The Maastricht treaty, signed thirty years ago this year, committed European Union countries to the greatest step in integration they’d so far taken. It established European ...

British shoppers began to return to stores last month after many stayed away during a wave of COVID-19 cases that peaked at the turn of the year, although fast-rising inflation ...

Airbus (AIR.PA) hopes to reach an amicable solution in a row with Qatar Airways over damage to the surface of A350 passenger jets, Chief Executive Guillaume Faury said on ...

Pandemic restrictions in 2020 reduced the European Union’s oil and petroleum consumption in energy use to its lowest in 30 years, the bloc’s statistics office said on Friday. Eurostat said ...

Turkish consumer confidence dropped 2.8 per cent to 71.2 points in February, official data showed on Friday, but remained higher than a record low level it touched in December due to a ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and its Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday accused the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of harassing them with an “endless” and “unrelenting” investigation to ...

Aggravated by fiddly financial apps, retired urologist Carlos San Juan got more than he bargained for when he began a campaign for a more user-friendly service from Spain’s banks. ...

Israel’s economy grew at its fastest pace in 21 years in 2021 as consumer spending, exports and investment rebounded with double-digit gains following a pandemic-stifled 2020, raising the spectre of the central ...

Visa Inc (V.N) cards will be accepted at all Amazon.com Inc stores and sites as part of a global agreement, the companies said on Thursday. Amazon said last ...

Kyndryl (KD.N), the former infrastructure services business of IBM (IBM.N), signed a deal with Nokia (NOKIA.HE) to help automate factories by bringing in cloud computing and artificial ...

As traditional automakers prepare to churn out electric vans and trucks, startups are focused more than ever on finding a competitive or technological edge to stay on the road once ...

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk donated a total of 5,044,000 shares in the world’s most valuable automaker to a charity from Nov. 19 to Nov. 29 last year, its filing with the ...