ROME: Italy's black economy is worth at least 540 billion euros ($752 billion), or around a third of its gross...

SYDNEY: Australian shares ended 0.6 per cent higher on Friday in see-saw trade, after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly slashed...

ISLAMABAD: Many big Swiss companies were doing successful business in various sectors of Pakistan’s economy and more were interested to...

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan has shocked global markets by driving its official interest rates into negative territory. In a...

BRASÍLIA: Brazilian government will propose the full liberalization of vehicle trade with Argentina from July, newspaper Valor Econômico reported on...

SEOUL: South Korea's industrial production rose 1.2 percent in December from a month earlier, posting the first rebound in three...

SEOUL: Sales of luxury cars priced over 100 million won topped the 20,000 mark last year for the first time...

PORTLAND: Blueberry exports to Japan, a major destination for the crop, have decreased in recent years but experts aren’t alarmed...

ALGIERS: Sugar imports (raw beet, sugar cane, lactose and solid lactose syrup) fell to USD 714.76 million in 2015 against...

AMSTERDAM: There are now over 1.5 million companies in the Netherlands but 1.2 million of them have no more than...

OTTAWA: Canada’s foreign ministry is closely monitoring all of the country’s military exports, but won’t revisit the controversial decision to...

ANKARA: Turkey's foreign trade deficit decreased by 27.4 percent to $6.183 billion in December 2015 from $8.519 billion in the...

PUNE: Flour millers have asked the government to scrap the 25% import duty on wheat from April due to worries...

MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's largest telecom operator, posted a 22.2 percent fall in profit in its latest quarter, missing...

ATHENS: Greece, Israel and Cyprus will explore the possibility of building a natural gas pipeline to Europe, tapping huge gas...

PARIS: Iran will buy 73 long-haul and 45 medium-haul Airbus passenger planes and set up a joint venture with French...

RIYADH: The world’s biggest oil exporter will continue spending through the through the energy price crash to prop up output. Saudi...

MOSCOW: Court hearings on ExxonMobil's lawsuit against Russia will take place no earlier than spring 2017. The US oil giant...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand imports rose to a record high last year as a decline in the value of the currency...

DETROIT: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers at the Fort Street Cargo Facility in...