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Stock markets dipped on Friday in thin trading but were set to see in the New Year with double-digit gains for 2021, while oil prices retreated from $80 a barrel following their ...

Gold was set for its worst year since 2015 on Friday as a global economic recovery caused safe-haven flows into the metal to ease and as central banks prepared to raise ...

Emerging market stocks broke a two-year winning run, but were set to end the last day of 2021 on a positive note on Friday boosted by China shares, while Turkey’s ...

Bitcoin close to $70,000, “memecoins” worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was the wildest yet for cryptocurrencies, even by the sector’s volatile ...

Chip company Advanced Micro Devices Inc’s (AMD.O) $35 billion all-stock deal for peer Xilinx (XLNX.O) is now expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, delayed from a ...

Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (HWT.UL), battered by US sanctions, expects 2021 revenue to have declined nearly 30 per cent and predicted continued challenges in the New Year. ...

The Turkish lira weakened for a fifth consecutive day on Friday, further eroding the big gains it made a week earlier as investors continued to fret about the country’s ...

Sterling hit its highest level against the euro since the end of February 2020 as easing concerns about the economic impact of the pandemic boosted risk-on currencies, while analysts expect more ...

Fusion Reactors CEO Christos Stavrou is unequivocal when he speaks about the potential value of fusion technology, both in terms of its use to the world, but also to Cyprus. “...

Property sales in Paphos district exceeded €2.5 billion in value over the past five years, a report from independent real estate asset management and advisory firm WiRE has revealed. The lion’...

The Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (Oeb) president Antonis Antoniou said during his end-year address that the unpredictability of the past two years has hurt both private businesses and the ...

UK shares were subdued on Thursday, after hitting 22-month highs in the previous session, as a surge of COVID-19 cases offset optimism around a “Santa Claus rally” in thin year-end ...

British house prices rose by a stronger-than-expected 1.0 per cent in December from November, capping the biggest full-year rise in prices since 2006, figures from mortgage lender Nationwide showed on Thursday. Economists ...

The current account balance of Cyprus and its international investment position improved in the third quarter of 2021, according to provisional data released by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank ...

The spectre of higher interest rates in the United States, slowing growth in China and a strong dollar have this year hammered emerging markets already reeling from the fallout of ...

Turkey’s lira fell 5 per cent on Thursday, extending a four-day slide and eating into big gains last week, as the government struggled to convince savers to ignore the volatility ...

Consulco, the investment manager with offices in London, Dubai, Moscow and Nicosia, has established its newest office in Limassol. The office is centrally located at 18 Evagora Papachristoforou Street, parallel to ...

Credit cards can save you money in some ways. However, they are also full of hidden charges that may surprise you when you receive your statement. If you are looking ...

The property market in Cyprus continued its recovery this year, with some indicators approaching pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released on Wednesday by real estate analysts Delfi Analytics. “2021 was ...

Eurobank announced this week the acquisition of an additional 2.7 per cent stake in Hellenic Bank, raising its total share in the Cypriot bank to 12.6 per cent. Eurobank acquired approximately 11.19 million ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk has exercised all of his options expiring next year, signaling an end to his stock sales that triggered a fall in the ...

Apple (AAPL.O) said it had placed the southern Indian factory of iPhone assembler Foxconn (2317.TW) on probation after both companies found that some worker dormitories and dining rooms did ...

Mikaella Melanidou and Katerina Patsalidou Co-founders, Visual Space ‘Our primary aim is to reach out to more artists and art lovers. We are planning to organise several amazing events, both ...

Evangelia Fotopoulou Naval Architect, Co-founder and General Manager of Syndeseas Integrated Solutions Ltd ‘We are entering 2022 with a new mentality, enhanced capabilities – more experienced and better prepared to fulfil our ...