House prices, as measured by the House Price Index1 (HPI), fell by 0.3% in the euro area and rose by 1% in the EU in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the same quarter of the previous year....

The banking model that defined banking in the late 20th and early 21st ended with the global financial crisis. APS Bank’s Chairman, Professor Emanuel Delia, discussed with Piers Allen what happens next....

Insurance major QIC has posted a net profit of QR635mn in the first half of this year, up 53% on the same period in 2013.   Qatar Insurance Company’s gross premium exceeded QR3bn in...

The entire gaming sector in Malta yesterday had an informal meeting with Lotteries and Gaming Authority executive chairman Joseph Cuschieri and Parliamentary Secretary Jose Herrera.   It was...

The fact of the matter is that China is the World’s second largest economy with a GDP measured in nominal terms (that is to say converted directly to US dollars using standard market exchange...

The Maltese business community is seeing a high degree of uncertainty in the current situation in Libya. In a press conference on Wednesday the Foreign Minister, Dr George Vella confirmed that most of...

International investors are recovering their appetite for euros as the shared currency recovers from a debt crisis that threatened to break it up.   But the euro, which is shared by 18...

Restaurant-goers in France will start seeing a funny little symbol on their menus this week: a skillet with a house on top, indicating your menu choice is made in-house.   It's part of a...

China's economic growth edged up in the latest quarter and more than 7 million new jobs were created in the first half of the year, easing pressure on communist leaders as they try to prevent a...

The leaders of five emerging market powers said at a summit Tuesday that they gave final agreement to creating their own development bank worth $100 billion that will have its headquarters in...