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EU leaders have agreed to allow the EU Commissioin to put the brakes on vaccine exports. On Thursday, the European Council gave the Commission freedom to exercise a mechanism to ...

In 2020, as the world convulsed under COVID-19 and the global economy faced its worst recession since World War II, billionaires saw their riches reach new heights. Now some are talking ...

Reeling from the blockage in the Suez Canal, shipping rates for oil product tankers have nearly doubled this week, and several vessels were diverted away from the vital waterway as ...

Nike and Adidas came under attack on Chinese social media on Thursday over past comments the fashion brands have made about labour conditions in Xinjiang, part of a diplomatic row ...

By George Eid and Andrew Rosenbaum Last week, Roger Zaccar moved his company, which disrupts insurance sales with a mobile app, from Beirut to Limassol. Zaccar told the Cyprus Mail ...

Fidelity applied on Wednesday to launch an exchange traded fund to track the performance of bitcoin, the latest move on Wall Street to embrace the digital currency. Fidelity’s Wise ...

Only a few weeks ago, many European countries were hoping their more affluent citizens would by now have started spending nest eggs built up during the pandemic to trigger a ...

As protests flare in the streets of Beirut every day, and the cost of living rises to levels that nearly half the population of the country cannot afford, experts and ...

“We have the possibility to forbid planned exports. That is the message to AstraZeneca,” warned European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in a speech made on Sunday. The European ...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to provide a full-scale travel update on restrictions on April 5. Speaking at the government’s latest Covid-19 briefing on Tuesday, Johnson said he “...

The value of total Assets Under Management with Cyprus funds reached €8.58 billion in the 4th quarter of 2020, a 10.3 per cent increase from the third quarter of that year. Assets under ...

“There will be no extraordinary meeting of the policy committee at the central bank, nor will any steps be taken to defend the Turkish lira,” the Turkish President’s Chief ...

Italy’s Neosperience has developed a way to detect Covid-19 infections by analysing a person’s speech or cough, the software company announced on Tuesday. Neosperience President Dario Melpignano said ...

One in five of the world’s 2,000 largest publicly listed companies have now committed to a “net-zero” emissions target to help tackle climate change, researchers said on Tuesday. The companies, ...

Top 10 Unicorns in Europe by value 1 – Klarna (Sweden). Valuation: $10.65bn. Sector: fintech 2 – Bolt (Estonia). Valuation: $4.3bn. Sector: transport 3 – Northvolt (Sweden). Valuation: $3.55bn. Sector: energy 4 – Otto Bock (Germany). Valuation: $3.5bn. Sector: ...

Hellenic Bank has named Oliver Gatzke, a German banker with years of experience in both financial restructuring and fintech as CEO. The 52-year old Gatzke is well-known in European banking ...

Microsoft Corp is in talks to buy messaging platform Discord Inc for more than $10 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Discord is a VoIP, instant messaging ...

UK inflation is forecast to jump to 2.5 per cent this year, as energy prices and consumer spending surge. Consumer price inflation, the measure targeted by the BoE, was just 0.7 per ...

Europe is facing a difficult second quarter as coronavirus infections rise and governments reimpose lockdown measures, but the European Central Bank will do its part to keep borrowing costs ultra ...

The European Union plans to label some gas power plants as sustainable investments, a draft document seen by Reuters showed, after an initial proposal to deny them a green label ...

The European Union is rebuffing British government calls to ship AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines produced in a factory in the Netherlands, an EU official said on Sunday. Former EU member Britain ...

“The recent aggressive price rally seems to have come to an end,” writes analyst Tom Kool at oilprice.com. Oil prices resumed their decline on Monday, falling around 1 per cent ...

The Turkish lira plunged on Sunday night, immediately after the re-opening of major foreign exchange markets, after President Tayyip Erdogan sacked the country’s hawkish central bank governor, replacing him ...

A federal jury in Texas said Apple Inc must pay about $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications LLC (PMC) for infringing a patent associated with digital rights management. The jurors late ...