Economic news

Saudi private sector employment growth at 18-month high Growth in Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector increased in September at the fastest rate for three months. According to a survey showed on Thursday, an increase in output and employment growth reached an 18-month high.  The seasonally adjusted IHS Markit Saudi Arabia PMI rose from August’s 57.0 […]

Metro Bank founder quits amid fallout from an accounting error Metro Bank shares jumped more than a quarter on Wednesday after its founder and chairman, Vernon Hill, quit following the wake of a significant accounting error that misclassified almost £900 million worth of loans. According to Metro, Hill would quit the group by December 31 […]

Chip stocks propel gains in Europe European shares gained on Tuesday as Apple suppliers held the lead following reports of strong iPhone sales. Semiconductor makers jumped into the spotlight with AMS, Dialog, and STMicro posting gains in early trading, pushing the technology sector higher by 1%. Apple Inc’s Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook told a […]

Sholz claims Germany can counter an economic crisis German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday that Europe’s largest economy would be able to counter an economic crisis if there one. “We are all prepared because we have decent financial resources so if there is an economic crisis, we can take countermeasures but at the […]

Exxon’s third-quarter earnings hurt by weak oil prices Exxon Mobil Corp’s operating profits fell last quarter for the fourth consecutive period. According to a regulatory filing on Tuesday, it showed all three businesses slumping from a year ago. According to a securities filing, lower oil prices, weak results in its chemical business, and the lack […]

Visa and Mastercard Inc to reconsider backing Facebook’s Libra Visa (V.N), Mastercard Inc (MA.N), and other key financial partners may reconsider their involvement in Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) Libra. Initially, the financial backers to the cryptocurrency did not want to attract regulatory scrutiny and declined Facebook’s request to publicly support the project. Policy executives from the […]

WeWork to withdraw ill-fated IPO WeWork’s parent company, The We Company, filed to withdraw its initial public offering a week after the SoftBank-backed startup ousted its founder Adam Neumann as its chief executive officer. The withdrawal of its IPO marks the end of the New York-based company’s pursuit of a near-term listing. It allows Neumann’s […]

Thomas Cook owes $381 million to Turkey’s Tourism Sector Turkey’s Tourism Advisory Council said that it estimates that the travel agency, Thomas Cook owes the local sector around €350 million ($381.8 million). They added that it were to be impossible for the amount to be repaid in the short-term and medium-term. Thomas Cook collapsed last […]

Turkish unemployment expected to rise 12.9% in 2019 Turkey’s unemployment rate is expected to rise from last year’s 11.0% to 12.9% in 2019. However, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said that they expect it to fall 11.8% in 2020. On Monday, he added that two-thirds of employment losses in the year were in the construction sector. […]

Japanese Govt. Bonds slips as investors wager on steepening yield curve Japanese government bond prices slipped on Monday as investors wagered that the Bank of Japan could adjust its policy to steepen the yield curve next month to address the side-effects of negative interest rates. BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said that if the bank were […]