Category: Business

AJMAN: A report by the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Ajman revealed that the number of Emirati women entrepreneurs in the emirate reached 2,949 in the first half of 2024. Emirati businesswomen now make up 35.5 percent of the total busine…

China’s central bank conducted 277.3 billion yuan (about 38.94 billion US dollars) of seven-day reverse repos at an interest rate of 1.7 percent Wednesday.

The People’s Bank of China said in a statement that the move aims to keep liquidity reasonabl…

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources of Oman Dr. Saud bin Hamoud Al Habsi met on Wednesday with Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of Belarus Alexei Bogdanov, and his accompanying delegation, who is visiting Muscat.

Duri…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia recorded a 9.9 percent rise in date exports in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

According to the National Centre for Palms and Dates, the Kingdom exported more than SA…

Doha: The general index of Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) dropped 10.78 points, or 0.11%, at the beginning of trading on Wednesday, reaching 10,177 points, compared to yesterday’s closing.

QSE general index was weighed down by a decline in four sectors: …

Doha: The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) Index closed Wednesday’s trading session down by 51.58 points, or 0.51 percent, to reach 10,136.99 points.

During the session, 181,357,067 shares were traded, with a total value of QR 431,517,705.494, resulting fr…

ASHGABAT: Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dragon Oil, wholly owned by the Government of Dubai, expressed his gratitude to the President of the Republic of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, for the warm reception, hosp…

The dollar held near its lowest in more than a year against a basket of peers on Wednesday, with sterling trading just off multi-year highs, as markets focused on clues to the size of a widely expected US interest rate cut in September.

The Australi…