Author: Steven Sahiounie

By 0909 GMT, MSCI’s index for emerging market stocks gained 0.2%, while a gauge of currencies was flat

Japan’s Nikkei continued to advance, climbing to 38,010 on Tuesday, not far from the record high of 38,957 the benchmark touched on Dec. 29, 1989

The increase observed in exports mainly concerns the agro-food industries sector (+66.2%) following the sharp increase in sales of olive oil

Bashar Hussein Al-Qattan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Green Flame Gas Company, has expressed gratitude for the Kuwaiti government’s commitment to fostering the private sector

The state aims to alleviate the living burdens on citizens while maintaining financial discipline by achieving a primary surplus and reducing deficit and debt rates to GDP: minister

Reflecting on the global economy’s resilience amidst challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Cormann projected the global economy to grow at 2.9% this year and 3% next year

The decision was political and did not put forward any ‘serious’ economic claims, according to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

Austria has actually increased imports from the sanctioned country due to a lack of affordable alternatives

Israeli occupation forces continue their assaults on the occupied West Bank, and settlers raid the town of Huwara. Sources in the occupied West Bank reported that a Palestinian youth succumbed to critical injuries inflicted by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire in the city of Qalqilya. Earlier, Israeli settlers launched an attack on homes in the town of Huwara south of Nablus, setting ablaze several vehicles belonging to Palestinian citizens. The settlers also assaulted a number of Palestinians in the nearby village of Asira al-Qibliya amid intense gunfire. Two Palestinian youths, one aged 20 and the other 16, were seriously injured as a…

The UK has paid a high price for Brexit, which has spurred inflation and trimmed the size of its economy, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing economists from Goldman Sachs.