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US stocks closed mostly lower on Thursday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 222.05 points, or 0.54%, ending at 40,752.92.

The S and P 500 shed 16.39 points, or 0.30%, closing at 5,503.68. It marked a third straight day of losses.

The Nasdaq C…

Qatar News Agency is now closing its daily transmission for Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2024.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Doha: Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index dropped by 0.22% at the beginning of Thursday’s trading, losing 22.38 points, bringing it down to the level of 10,298 points compared to the close of Wednesday’s session.

Figures released by the stock exchange s…

The number of job openings was little changed at 7.7 million on the last business day of July, the U.S.

Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

The figure was the lowest since January 2021, a hint that the labor market in the world’s largest econ…

Japanese stocks closed down 1.05 percent at the close of trading Thursday, after the Nikkei index fell more than 4 percent at the end of Wednesday’s session, after official data showed that wages continued to grow in July by 0.4 percent from the previ…

HE Minister of Finance Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari met with HE Governor of the Central Bank of the Arab Republic of Egypt (CBE) Hassan Abdullah on the sidelines of his participation in the ministerial meeting of the Arab Economic and Social Council in its…

HE Minister of Commerce and Industry Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Qassim Al-Thani called on Finnish companies and investors to take advantage of the exceptional economic and investment environment provided by the State of Qatar, highlighting the ince…

Oil prices rose nearly 1% on Thursday, amid a larger-than-expected drawdown in US inventories and OPEC+ delaying an output increase.

Brent crude futures rose 89 cents, or 1.2%, to $73.59 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures …