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Emerging markets, currencies end week on sour note on strong dollar ECONOMY

Emerging markets, currencies end week on sour note on strong dollar

Emerging stocks stumbled lower yesterday and looked likely to end the week on losses after rising for three weeks in a row, while currencies were pressured by dollar gains and a dive in commodity prices.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Deutsche Bank hiring staff to bolster equities trading ECONOMY

Deutsche Bank hiring staff to bolster equities trading

Deutsche Bank is hiring about 100 people to boost its equities trading operations as it seeks to recover ground in an area seen as vital to its new strategy, .......

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Two Italians killed in Zimbabwe on anti-poaching patrol INTERNATIONAL

Two Italians killed in Zimbabwe on anti-poaching patrol

An Italian father and son who lived in Zimbabwe were shot dead by wildlife rangers while on an anti-poaching patrol in an apparent case of mistaken identity, officials said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
What came first in Qatar? Economic development or financial sector growth? ECONOMY

What came first in Qatar? Economic development or financial sector growth?

In my series of articles in Gulf Times, I examine the question as to what extent the banking sector has been successful in aiding the diversification of Qatar’s economy.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Hagen times it well to help Dimension retain yellow CULTURE

Hagen times it well to help Dimension retain yellow

Dimension Data retained the yellow jersey of the Tour of Qatar as Edvald Boasson Hagen put up a dominating display on another windy day to win the stage three individual time trial, at Lousil circuit yesterday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
More than 60 people killed in suicide bombs in Nigeria INTERNATIONAL

More than 60 people killed in suicide bombs in Nigeria

More than 60 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp in northern Nigeria for people displaced by an insurgency of the Boko Haram group, a military and emergency official said on Wednesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Racing club and Jaidah join hands to open drift school ARABIA

Racing club and Jaidah join hands to open drift school

The sound of squealing tyres is something that Qatar is only too familiar with and now there is a school where you can learn to drift — with the aim of taking racing off the streets.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
25.6mn voters to cast ballot in Kerala INTERNATIONAL

25.6mn voters to cast ballot in Kerala

Around 25.6mn voters are eligible to cast their ballot in the upcoming assembly elections in Kerala, the Election Commission announced yesterday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Serena surges past Radwanska and into 26th Slam final CULTURE

Serena surges past Radwanska and into 26th Slam final

An inspired world number one Serena Williams demolished Polish fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska Thursday to surge into her 26th Grand Slam final and zero in on a seventh Australian Open title.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Air strikes on Yemeni oil port kill 9, say medics, workers ASIA

Air strikes on Yemeni oil port kill 9, say medics, workers

Air strikes by Saudi-led forces hit oil facilities in Yemen on Thursday, killing at least nine people, workers and medics said, and four Yemeni government soldiers died in a suspected militant attack.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Apple seeks approval to open stores in India ECONOMY

Apple seeks approval to open stores in India

Apple Inc has applied to set up its own stores in India, one of the world’s fastest growing smartphone markets, as the iPhone-maker looks to tap new opportunities amid worries of slowing growth in its main markets.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Modi launches Assam poll campaign, slams Congress INTERNATIONAL

Modi launches Assam poll campaign, slams Congress

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday kicked off the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for assembly elections in Assam, saying the northeastern state did not develop much despite a prime minister getting elected from there for 10 years.

4:45 AM November 25 2016