• Markets fall on foreign sell-offs

    Foreign investors yesterday remained the markets' top sellers for the fourth session in a row as they increased their net selling value by 166.17 per cent over Tuesday session to VND83.8 billion (US$4 million), hurting both southern and northern bourses' performance.

  • Gov't to aggressively support corporate investment: finance minister

    The government will aggressively support both inbound and outbound investments by local companies to help vitalize the e

  • Foreign Economic Forecasters Predict Tough Year for Korean Economy

    Foreign economic forecasters are putting out an increasingly lower growth rate for the Korean economy this year. According to Bloomberg on March 12, the average forecast for GDP growth rate was 3.4 percent made by 27 investment banks and credit rating agencies. Until now, the average economic growth rate for ...

  • Sales of Import Trucks on Steep Rise

    In the Korean truck (5 ton-plus) market, the share of import trucks passed the 20-percent mark last year, first in history. Not only in the passenger car market, but in the truck market, import vehicles are rapidly eroding the share of domestic companies.   Global truck makers such as Volvo and Daimler ...

  • Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs Masagos Zulkifli to attend Egypt Economic Development Conference

    March 12, 2015 11:37 AMSINGAPORE - Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs Masagos Zulkifli will be attending the Egypt Economic Development Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from March 13 to 15.

  • L'economia libanese tiene

    LIBANO Beirut 12/03/2015. L'emissione libanese di bond del valore di 2,2 miliardi di dollari il 23 febbraio, a un costo di gran lunga inferiore rispetto ad altri paesi classificati allo stesso grado B-/ B2, Leggi tutto...

  • Business Briefing: L.L. Bean Announces Shift to Expand Retail Presence

    The company plans to more than triple its number of stores over the next five years, officials said.

  • Business Briefing: Shake Shack Reports Loss After I.P.O.-Related Charge

    Shake Shack reported a net loss of $1.4 million in the fourth quarter, compared with a profit of $997,000 a year earlier.

  • Managing Estate Sales Becomes Big Business

    The estate sale business is growing as the parents of baby boomers reach the end of their lives and the boomers themselves retire and downsize.

  • Former cruise line executive says Virgin stole his cruise business idea

    A former cruise industry executive has sued Richard Branson's Virgin Group, claiming Virgin stole his idea and business plan for a new cruise line based out of Miami.

  • Finance news you need to know today

    RICHARD Branson is being sued for alleged intellectual property theft. Meanwhile, Apple’s online stores went down for several hours.

  • Herzog, Bennett, Kahlon share their views on the economy

    Party leaders lay their economic and social agenda at TheMarker’s annual finance conference.

  • US Treasury urged to scrutinise foreign real estate buyers

    IN a broad show of support for increased scrutiny of foreign real estate buyers in the United States, 17 nonprofit organisations on Tuesday urged the Treasury Department to require that the real estate industry verify the identities of buyers and screen them for potential money-laundering risk.

  • Iran, China to raise trade to $60b in one year

    Iran and China hope to bring the level of their trade exchanges to $60 billion from the current $52 billion in a year or so, the head of Iran-China Joint Chamber of Commerce says.   “We are determined to raise the volume of our trade with China to $60 billion at the ...

  • China Jan-Feb property sales post biggest fall in 3 years

    CHINA'S property sales in the first two months of 2015 dropped by the most in three years amid a glut of housing supply, and real estate investment growth eased.

  • Data confirms China economy still losing steam

    GROWTH in China's investment, retail sales and factory output all missed forecasts in January and February and fell to multi-year lows, leaving investors with little doubt that the economy is still losing steam and in need of further support measures.

  • Unions square up to Obama over Asia trade deal

    [WASHINGTON] A top US trade union federation said on Wednesday it would withhold key election spending as it builds a war chest to fight President Barack Obama's pending trade deal with Asia.

  • Pakistan to import 1,000MW of electricity from Iran

    Pakistan’s National Electric Power Regulatory Authority on Tuesday approved in principle a project to import 1,000 megawatts of electricity from Iran, though it left unresolved the question of how to pay for this electricity.   Iran currently supplies power to Pakistan, with 73MW available for Gwadar. The new agreement would supply 1,000MW ...

  • Shadow foreign secretary says he pushes for reopening UK embassy in Iran

    TEHRAN - The British shadow foreign secretary says he is seriously pursuing the reopening of the UK embassy in the Iranian capital, Tehran.   During a meeting with a delegation of Iranian parliamentarians on Tuesday in London, Douglas Alexander also underlined the need for promotion of ties between Tehran and London, IRNA ...

  • GE Weighs Deeper Cuts to Capital Business

    General Electric is considering making deeper cuts in its massive banking business, having decided the returns from lending are no longer worth the ire it provokes among investors.

  • Judge Signs Off on Aereo Sales to TiVo, RPX

    A bankruptcy judge gave Aereo Inc. approval Wednesday to finalize the sale of its technology and remaining assets to TiVo Inc. and other buyers.