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Russian stocks slipped from multi-week highs on Wednesday and the rouble turned lower against the dollar and euro, as falling oil prices outweighed the effect of upcoming tax payments that ...

A sharp rebound in Israel’s economic activity and a jump in annual inflation have made a 0.75-point interest rate increase more likely next week, analysts said on Tuesday. The ...

British consumer price inflation jumped to 10.1 per cent in July, its highest since February 1982, up from an annual rate of 9.4 per cent in June, intensifying the squeeze on households, official ...

Revolut, a British financial technology company (fintech) that specialises in digital banking, this week received approval from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) to offer cryptocurrency and digital asset ...

Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google is combining the eyes and arms of physical robots with the knowledge and conversation skills of virtual chatbots to help its employees fetch soda ...

There was a €24.6 billion international trade deficit in the euro area in June 2022, according to a report released on Tuesday by the European Union’s statistical office (Eurostat). In addition, ...

It looks like ethereum’s mega-upgrade is happening. Finally. After years of delays, the “Merge” seems all but certain to take place in September, with the cryptography underlying the blockchain ...

The European Union is working to boost its presence in the Pacific through economic ties and new security commitments as geostrategic competition in the region intensifies, the bloc’s ambassador ...

Barclays lowered its Brent price forecasts on Tuesday by $8 per barrel for 2022 and 2023, as it expects a large surplus of crude oil over the near-term due to “resilient” Russian supplies. ...

The board of Dubai’s Emaar Properties (EMAR.DU), which owns the Dubai Mall, will meet on Thursday to discuss the sale of its e-commerce fashion business, the company said ...

Hedge fund Third Point on Monday disclosed a stake of roughly $1 billion in Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) and said it plans to push the media company to make a ...

Several major Wall Street banks have begun offering to facilitate trades in Russian debt in recent days, according to bank documents seen by Reuters, giving investors another chance to dispose ...

Israeli authorities said on Monday they had arrested three suspects as part of an investigation into “large-scale fraud” against the French treasury and the theft and laundering of millions of ...

Battered by a near 50 per cent plunge in its shares over the last 12 months, Nexi (NEXII.MI), Europe’s biggest payments processor, has not gone unnoticed. Earlier this year, the ...

The United States on Friday adopted new export controls on technologies that support the production of advanced semiconductors and gas turbine engines that it said are critical to its national ...

Brazil’s central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto on Friday said he believes credit cards will cease to exist soon due to the growth of the open finance system, through ...

It is ludicrous for the government to claim that it does not have the resources to meet the needs of vulnerable households Accounts and behaviour of the government, banks and ...

Unity Technologies, a video game software development company based in San Francisco, this week announced that it has agreed to enter a partnership with cloud services giant Microsoft Azure. The ...

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) unveiled its latest high-end foldable smartphones on Wednesday, keeping prices at the same level as last year’s in a bid to cement its leadership in an ...

Global rating agencies S&P and Fitch on Friday lowered Ukraine’s foreign currency ratings to selective default and restricted default as they consider the country’s debt restructuring ...

The total value of Cypriot bonds held by the European Central Bank (ECB) on its balance sheet stood at €4.29 billion after the public sector purchase programme (PSPP) had concluded in ...

A small increase of 0.09 per cent was recorded in the price index of construction materials for the month of July 2022, compared to the previous month, according to a report by ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Inflation has been ramping up for about a year now and has reached levels last seen more than forty years ago, during the stagflation of the 1970s ...

Cyprus’ public debt declined to €24.18 billion at the end of June 2022, marking a 3.1 per cent reduction compared with the respective period of last year, according to the latest available data. ...