Business

Dubai: Kuwait’s stock exchange will introduce a new equities benchmark next year after completing a reorganisation of its listed companies into new market...

Frankfurt: German business sentiment climbed to the strongest since July 2011 in a sign that the economy is sustaining its momentum. The Munich-based Ifo...

Dubai/Frankfurt: Deutsche Bank is to stop clearing cheques denominated in euros for some banks in the Middle East, according to sources familiar with the...

Tokyo: After three decades building an airplane from scratch, Michimasa Fujino, 56, chief engineer of the Hondajet, might have to reach a ripe old age to...

Wellington: China and New Zealand ramped up their cooperation on Monday, pledging to expand their existing free trade agreement into what visiting Premier...

London: Britain's manufacturers told Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday to drop her threat that she might take the country out of the European Union...

Shanghai: China stocks slipped on Monday, as any optimism felt from data showing surging profits at industrial firms was offset by fresh property curbs and...

Doha: Gulf countries are pressing for an early deal on free trade with Britain to secure preferential arrangements after Brexit, and could have a draft...

London: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in preliminary talks for an equities licence in Saudi Arabia as the US lender seeks to take advantage of the country’s...

Kuwait City: Kuwait is seeking to follow its Gulf neighbours in its bid to gain emerging-market status. The nation’s Capital Markets Authority plans to...