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China’s central bank announced Thursday that it has decided to set up Securities, Funds and Insurance companies Swap Facility (SFISF), with the initial scale of 500 billion yuan (about 71 billion US dollars) for the healthy and stable development of t…

Oil prices rose on in early Asian trade on Thursday on tensions in the Middle East and on spike in fuel demand as a major storm barreled into Florida.

Brent crude futures rose 37 cents, or 0.5%, to $76.95 a barrel, while the US West Texas Intermediat…

Doha: The volume of real estate trading in sales contracts registered with the Real Estate Registration Department at the Ministry of Justice during the period from Sept. 29 till Oct. 3, reached QAR 381,994,903 while the total sales contracts for the …

Doha: The general index of Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) dropped 0.03%, at the start of trading on Thursday, down to the level of 10,506 points, compared to Wednesday’s closing, with backed by four sectors.

QSE’s figures showed a positive performance in…

The dollar index, which measures the currency against six key rivals, stuck close to an almost two-month top touched overnight, as traders further pared bets for US rate cuts this year after last week’s unexpectedly strong payrolls data.

The US dolla…

Doha: The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index closed this week with a 0.42 percent increase, adding 44.02 points to reach 10,509 points, compared to last week’s close. The rise was supported by gains in four sectors, led by the banking and financial serv…

Kuwait’s Finance Minister and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr. Nora Al-Fassam held talks on Thursday with her visiting Turkish counterpart Mehmet Simsek, focusing on efforts to ratchet up bilateral relations.

Citing a raft of…

Price of Kuwaiti oil dropped USD 1.50 to settle on USD 77.62 per barrel on Wednesday compared to USD 79.12 pb on Tuesday, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said on Thursday.

Globally, price of Brent crude dropped by 60 cents to USD 78.58 pb, while W…