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Savers held up two banks in Lebanon on Wednesday to demand access to their own deposits frozen in the country’s paralysed financial system, underlining desperation among citizens unable to ...

Oil fell on Thursday as expectations of weaker demand and a strong US dollar ahead of a potentially large interest rate increase outweighed supply concerns. The International Energy Agency said ...

Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) governor Constantinos Herodotou on Wednesday addressed the Association of Cyprus Banks, during the latter’s annual general meeting, touching on the uncertainty plaguing the current ...

Outgoing Association of Cyprus Banks president Panicos Nicolaou on Wednesday defended Cypriot banks from the torrent of criticism that they received this past year, particularly after the decision to increase ...

The total number of employees in the general public sector reached 72,432 in the second quarter of 2022, marking an increase of 1.8 per cent compared to the corresponding period of 2021, according to ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday that Cyprus is expected to join the list of countries that have issued green bonds, with the first issuance of green loans expected to ...

A rally that has the dollar on course for its best year since 1984 has further to run, traders and analysts say, suggesting more pain almost everywhere else as other currencies ...

British consumer price inflation fell for the first time in almost a year in August as a drop in fuel prices offered some unexpected – and probably brief – respite to households ...

Oil prices inched lower on Wednesday on concerns of another US Federal Reserve interest rate hike next week after consumer prices unexpectedly rose in August, outweighing support from a robust ...

Alphabet GOOGL.O unit Google on Wednesday suffered its second setback in less than a year as Europe’s top court agreed with EU antitrust regulators that it had abused ...

Paphos tourism board (Etap) managing director Nasos Hadjigeorgiou on Tuesday said that despite the fact that certain hotels and tourist accommodation units will close during the winter, the district will ...

Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) governor Constantinos Herodotou on Tuesday delivered a speech at an event organised by the London Business School Alumni Cyprus Club, touching on a number of ...

Hellenic Bank on Tuesday announced its decision to terminate negative interest rates on non-household Euro accounts, with effect from October 3, 2022. From the aforementioned date, the interest rate on all non-household ...

For years, ether could barely dream of challenging its big brother bitcoin. Now, its ambitions may be becoming more realistic. The second-biggest cryptocurrency is taking market share from bitcoin ahead ...

The Federal Reserve will deliver another 75-basis-point interest rate hike next week and likely hold its policy rate steady for an extended period once it eventually peaks, according to a ...

Oil prices rose in volatile trade on Tuesday as worries about tight fuel supplies ahead of winter offset investor concerns about lower demand in China, the world’s biggest crude ...

Britain’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest since 1974 at 3.6 per cent in the three months to July as more people left the labour market, according to official data on ...

Private healthcare company Laertes Health LTD on Monday announced that it has finally approved the necessary building permit for the construction of a private hospital in Nicosia. The hospital, a 4...

International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general Willie Walsh this week said that international passenger demand was very satisfactory during July, especially when factoring in any lingering restrictions, as confirmed ...

A long-awaited software upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain aimed at slashing its huge energy consumption is expected this week, a move proponents say may widen the technology’s use and ...

Lebanon’s central bank said it has entirely ceased providing dollars for gasoline imports in a move that will likely lead to higher and more volatile prices as well as ...

Germany’s wet and windswept north has long lacked the economic appeal of the industrial south but the green transition and an energy crisis sparked by war in Ukraine is ...

The International Monetary Fund is looking for ways to provide emergency funding to countries facing war-induced food price shocks and will discuss measures at an executive board meeting on Monday, ...

Oil prices fell on Monday with the global fuel demand outlook overshadowed by COVID-19 restrictions in China and the potential for further interest rate hikes in the United States and ...