As the unjust blockade imposed on Qatar by the siege countries, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, enters its sordid anniversary, Qatar continued to display its prowess…
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The gender pay gap may have less to do with discriminatory wages and more with fewer women than men holding higher-paying jobs, said a new global study.
That the average woman is paid…
The EU will this week unveil its first formal plans for a larger, one-trillion-euro-plus long-term budget after Britain’s departure, which threaten to further deepen divisions in the bloc.
Thailand’s Central Bank Governor Veerathai Santiprabhob says the country’s economy has recovered strongly in the first quarter, but warned that low-income earners and farmers are still burdened…
Sri Lanka, which has loaded up on Chinese-funded infrastructure, is sinking deeper into a debt trap as its currency weakens and economic growth decelerates to its slowest pace in 16 years,…
China’s securities regulator has released new guidelines for foreign investment in Chinese security joint ventures in which it eased some restrictions and launched an application process for…
Peru cut its 2018 economic growth estimate to 3.6% from a previous estimate of 4%, the government said in its Macroeconomic Projections Update Report on Saturday, while increasing its 2019…
Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of $3.1 billion as of April 15, according to the latest statistics of the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
The country’s total import-export…
The number of companies that listed their shares in 39 countries from January to March dropped 12% to 360 from the same period a year earlier, according to research company Dealogic.
One trend was clear this week: It is incredibly costly to stay ahead in the technology industry.
Cyberattackers attempted to penetrate Mexico’s electronic payment systems Friday, forcing three banks to enact contingency plans, according to people familiar with the matter.
Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Jafar Hassan has said that “Jordan cannot continue borrowing and accumulating debts”, underlining the need for self-…
The International Monetary Fund’s forecast of an accelerating global growth is too optimistic, according to Qatar National Bank. QNB expects a slowdown in the global economy to 3.6% in 2018.
The joke doing the rounds at last week’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington was that central banks are looking into cryptocurrencies so that…
Southeast Asian leaders agreed to work intensively toward an agreement by the end of this year on plans to create what could potentially be the world’s biggest trading bloc.
Royal Bank of Canada, Canada’s biggest lender, said it had lifted the posted rates on some of its fixed-rate mortgages, following the lead of its biggest rival Toronto-Dominion Bank on Wednesday…
The Russian Central Bank has decided to hold its key interest rate unchanged at 7.25%, the bank said in a statement late Friday, World Bulletin reported. The annual inflation rate remains low,…
Argentina investors say the central bank’s extraordinary effort to bolster the peso Friday may be just the beginning, with more such actions to be expected if the currency doesn’t stabilize soon…
China risks getting old before it gets rich. Like so many journalistic cliches, this misses the real story: how mainland households risk getting too indebted before getting rich or old.
In new data from European statistic office Eurostat, it has been revealed that many Central and Eastern European regions saw low levels of unemployment in 2017, with Poland having one of the…
T-Mobile US Inc. and its German owners are advancing toward a long-awaited telecommunications union that would value merger partner Sprint Corp. at about $24 billion, according to people with…
Federal Reserve officials and Wall Street traders should be cautious about dismissing an ominous sign emanating from the US Treasury market.
Eurozone finance ministers in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Friday set a two-month countdown to agree Greece’s high-wire exit from eight years of bailout programs with divisions deep over how much debt…
The World Bank said it has raised its forecast for Poland’s 2018 gross domestic product growth to 4.2% from 4% seen at the beginning of the year, with the expansion expected to be fuelled by…
Embarrassed by his foreign minister’s dramatic speech to parliament alleging his ministry’s coffers had run dry, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir may have felt he had no option other than to…
