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Mecca’s crowded streets provided Saudi merchant Dhikra Faqihi with much-needed relief as pilgrims returned to the annual haj after two years of pandemic-related disruption, with many rushing to buy ...

Oil prices rose as much as nearly 3 per cent on Wednesday before paring some gains as investors piled back into the market after a heavy rout in the previous session, ...

The Turkish lira weakened 0.5 per cent against the dollar early on Wednesday, hit by broad strength in the U.S. currency and by investor concerns about soaring inflation and economic ...

The Deputy Ministry for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy on Tuesday announced that minister Kyriacos Kokkinos is taking part in the 26th Annual Economist Government Roundtable, which is taking place ...

A French Member of the European Parliament (MEP) urged France’s market regulator to review its decision to register the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, citing a recent Reuters investigation into money ...

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, on Tuesday announced that there was a slight improvement in overall employment in the EU during the first quarter of 2022, when compared ...

The euro slumped to a two-decade low on Tuesday as the latest surge in European gas prices added to the region’s recession worries and a rebound in US Treasury ...

Brent oil prices were little changed on Tuesday, reversing earlier gains of $1, as investors weighted supply concerns, highlighted by a potential production cut in Norway, and worries about a possible ...

Egypt’s Suez Canal revenue hit a record high of $7 billion in the financial year to June 30, up 20.7 per cent from the previous year, Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabea said ...

Turkey’s annual inflation rate jumped to a 24-year high of 78.62 per cent in June, data showed on Monday, just above forecast, driven by the impact of the Ukraine war, ...

The number of pubs operating in England and Wales is the lowest on record, research showed on Monday, as surging energy costs combine with a shortage of workers to threaten ...

The Deputy Ministry of Shipping on Monday announced that minister Vassilios Demetriades is currently in Japan on an official visit. During his time in the country, the minister will hold ...

PwC Cyprus on Monday said that international investments are crucial to the Cypriot economy, something which was highlighted during the Invest Cyprus International Investment Awards. The event took place on ...

The old joke is that nuclear fusion is always 30 years away. Yet the dream of abundant clean energy is no laughing matter as we meet an ITER researcher to catch ...

Employment in the broad industrial sector decreased in 2020 by 1.5 per cent to 39,100 compared to 39,700 in 2019, according to the results of the Survey on Industrial Production 2020, published by the Cyprus Statistical ...

British companies have turned increasingly glum about the outlook, with inflation surging and investment plans looking stagnant, according to the latest business survey that shows momentum rapidly draining from the ...

The head of Germany’s energy regulator warned that the 15 billion euros’ ($15.64 billion) worth of credit lines provided by the government to buy gas for storage facilities may not be ...

Ryanair (RYA.I) had its busiest month ever in June (RYA.I) as it flew 15.9 million passengers, up from just 5.3 million a year earlier and topping a previous high set ...

Gartner forecast global mobile phone sales to fall 7.1 per cent this year on Thursday, revising its earlier estimate of a growth of 2.2 per cent, citing inflation, Russia’s invasion of ...

The European Union on Thursday reached a provisional deal on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules to regulate what one lawmaker called the “Wild West” crypto market. WHAT ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) said on Friday it was looking to expand in some European markets, even as the digital asset market continues to experience a downturn. ...

Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Friday “it is disappointing that geopolitical differences continue to constrain US aircraft exports” while responding to China’s three biggest state-owned airlines buying 300 jets ...

Ferrari (RACE.MI) makes some of the fastest cars on the road, but the luxury Italian automaker is taking the slow lane to an electric future as it tries to ...

Jacobi Asset Management said on Thursday that it would launch Europe’s first bitcoin exchange-traded-fund (ETF) on the Euronext exchange, in a sign of the cryptocurrency’s appeal despite its ...