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The US dollar held at a two-decade high on Friday as a broad wave of risk aversion swept through global markets, with traders flirting with the prospect of a 100 basis ...

Russia’s central bank is resisting domestic calls to take over the running of foreign lenders’ local businesses, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, concerned in ...

We can call Bitcoin a very motivating and astonishing option for investment. It is because it remains volatile and controversial to a great extent, and we see it obscuring to ...

The European Commission on Thursday said that the Cypriot economy exceeded expectations during the first quarter of 2022, with a number of sectors outpacing performance forecasts. “The Cypriot economy surprised on ...

Twitter Inc’s (TWTR.N) fight with Elon Musk to enforce his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform could attract scrutiny from the US securities regulator over whether ...

The Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) this week announced that it has provided funding to start-ups and other innovative businesses worth a total of €8.5 million. The foundation said that it ...

Amazon (AMZN.O) has offered to halt online selling and marketing practices EU antitrust regulators regard as anti-competitive to try to end two investigations and avoid a possible hefty fine, ...

By George Pirishis With the cost of energy and electricity increasing dramatically, there are many households trying to take advantage of the subsidisation programmes by the Ministry of Energy, Trade ...

Twitter (TWTR.N) was coming back online on Thursday after an hour-long outage kept thousands of users across the globe from accessing the social media website. The outage affected nearly 2,000 ...

US crypto lender Celsius Network said on Wednesday it has filed for bankruptcy, becoming the latest victim in the cryptocurrency sector to wilt under a dramatic plunge in prices. New ...

The euro’s tumble below $1 for the first time in two decades puts it on course for one of the worst years in its history, especially if the energy price ...

A multi-million dollar crypto portfolio is something both sensible and degenerate investors dream of but few will ever reach. Strangely becoming a crypto millionaire is a typical prospect, hence why ...

Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) has agreed to sell 51 per cent of its towers business to a consortium of Canada’s Brookfield and US private equity firm DigitalBridge after they placed ...

Oil prices fell on Thursday as investors weighed tight supplies against the prospect of a large US rate hike that could stem inflation and curb crude demand. Brent crude futures ...

Europe’s single currency has dropped below parity against the dollar for the first time in almost 20 years, battered by growing recession fears in the euro area. On Wednesday, it ...

Labour minister Kyriacos Koushos on Wednesday expressed satisfaction at the launch of the social insurance office’s digital service for receiving childbirth aid. Koushos, who also thanked Deputy Minister for ...

Value added in the construction sector in Cyprus dropped after 5 years of growth in 2020, according to the construction and land development survey conducted by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). The ...

By Robert Street In recent years Cyprus has significantly enhanced its fund legislation to position itself as a flexible and cost-effective jurisdiction for funds and fund managers within the European ...

The total value of assets under management (AUM) by Collective Funds declined by 3.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2022 over the previous quarter, while Management Companies and Undertakings of ...

Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Wednesday after hotter-than-expected inflation data fueled bets that the US Federal Reserve will hike interest rates aggressively to tame surging prices. The Labor ...

US consumer prices surged 9.1% in June, the largest annual increase in more than four decades amid stubbornly high costs for gasoline, food and rent, cementing the case for another 75-basis-point ...

A supply chain crisis triggered by the global pandemic deprived makers of PCs and smartphones to cars of computer chips needed to make their products. All that suddenly changed over ...

The dollar surged to a 20-year high against a basket of currencies and the euro broke below parity against the greenback after data on Wednesday showed US consumer price inflation ...

The European Union’s body for dismantling failed banks said on Wednesday it would ratchet up pressure on lenders over the coming months to bolster their defences so that none ...