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Xinhua, Cairo :Dozens of the three-wheeled motorized vehicles known as “tok-toks” are moving around and randomly parking to get passengers in Giza’s Boulak el-Dakrour and...

AFP, Istanbul :Turkey Wednesday lowered its economic growth forecast for 2014 to 3.3 percent, blaming external factors including the chaos in neighbours Syria and Iraq...

AFP, Singapore :Oil prices bounced from multi-month lows in Asia Thursday, lifted by an equities rally and a weaker dollar as minutes from the US...

AFP, Washington :Federal Reserve officials stressed “patience” in waiting to raise interest rates, worrying about weaker foreign economic growth and the stronger dollar, minutes of...

AFP, Washington :The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that advanced economies still hold too much debt, but even as they trim it they need to...

AFP, Geneva :Switzerland’s embattled banking secrecy could be dealt a final death blow in 2018, after the government decided Wednesday to launch talks with other...

AFP, Washington :The US budget deficit fell to 2.8 percent of the economy’s output in fiscal year 2014, as government revenues rose sharply, official data...

Business Desk : The world will celebrate ‘World Egg Day’ to fight malnutrition, hunger and poverty on 10 October 2014. The Day is very significant for...

Business DeskA five-member team of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh led by its President Showkat Hossain FCA left city on Thursday for India...

AFP, Oslo :Norway indicated it will spend more of its oil wealth in 2015 to counter a slowdown of its economy, according to budget plans...