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New business and household loans in Cyprus reached a record high of €3.9 billion in 2024, up from €3.3 billion in 2023, according to the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). This total represents the ...

Exploration activities in three offshore blocks inside Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) have come to an end after the licenses expired without renewal, the government said on Tuesday. Licenses to ...

British consumers received some relief to pressure on their budgets in January as a step-up in supermarket promotions meant grocery inflation edged lower following four straight months of rises, according ...

British businesses turned more pessimistic in January, extending a run of falling corporate confidence to five months, but there were some more hopeful views about trading prospects for the coming ...

British factories reported another tough month in January as output, new orders and employment all fell, with companies hit by higher costs even before payroll taxes and the minimum wage ...

Deputy Minister of Innovation Nicodemos Damianou met Greek Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou at the inaugural Cyber Intelligence Summit in Athens on Tuesday. According to an official announcement, the ...

EVH Investments Limited on Tuesday announced the mandatory public takeover offer for Salamis Tours was completed on January 31. The offer, initially submitted on November 12, 2024, aimed to acquire up to 100 per ...

Despite Cyprus’ relatively modest trade volume with the US, the island could still experience indirect effects of US tariffs on European goods, warned Sofronis Clerides, professor of economics and dean ...

Both apartment prices and rental costs in Cyprus increased during the fourth quarter of 2024, rising by 1.3 per cent and 1.5 per cent year-on-year, respectively, according to real estate analytics firm Ask ...

Hellenic Bank on Tuesday announced a further reduction in the reference rate for all loans linked to the European Central Bank’s (ECB) base rate. Specifically, the interest rate has ...

US crude prices fell by nearly 2 per cent on Tuesday as US tariffs on China took effect, though President Donald Trump paused for a month a decision on steep levies ...

Britain’s financial watchdog has laid out plans to make it easier for retail investors and wealth managers to buy corporate bonds and for companies to raise capital from these ...

Cypriot banks are expected to prioritise new lending in 2025 and beyond, as they seek to offset the impact of lower interest rates and capitalise on a historically low loan-to-deposit ratio. ...

Deputy Shipping Minister Marina Hadjimanolis strengthened Cyprus’ maritime ties with Oman by signing two crucial Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) this week in Muscat. These agreements focus on maritime cooperation and ...

US manufacturing grew for the first time in more than two years in January amid strong orders, but a measure of prices paid by factories for raw materials rose solidly, ...

OPEC+ agreed to stick to its policy of gradually raising oil output from April on Monday and removed the US government’s Energy Information Administration from the sources used to ...

Bank cards remain the most widely used payment method in Cyprus by total transaction volume, according to the Central Bank of Cyprus’ (CBC) latest payment statistics report. The report, which ...

The retail trade turnover index in Cyprus increased by 5.8 per cent in December 2024 compared to the same month in the previous year, according to data released by the Cyprus Statistical ...

Interest rates on deposits and loans in Cyprus and Greece vary significantly, with Cypriot banks generally offering lower deposit rates than their Greek counterparts, In addition, according to a report ...

The government on Monday announced the launch of a fast-track process for the issuance of building licences for certain types of residential units, saying the step would also go some ...

Hedge funds last week jettisoned global stocks and added bets they would decline, said Goldman Sachs (GS.N), just before US President Trump announced tariffs that sent global markets tumbling. ...

US companies will look to the Middle East and India for more aluminium and to Chile and Peru for copper as they seek to circumvent sweeping tariffs imposed by US ...

The dollar surged on Monday, pushing its Canadian counterpart and the Mexican peso to multi-year lows while China’s yuan slumped to a record trough in offshore trade after US ...

Cryptocurrency prices slid on Monday, with bitcoin at a three-week low, as the risk of a trade war spooked investors and caused a selloff across financial markets. Bitcoin , the world’...