After five long days of negotiation, trade talks on Sunday (2 August) came to an end with an agreement on further liberalisation of world trade. Representatives from the 147 countries of the World...
The unemployment rate in the 12-nation eurozone was stable at nine percent in June, the European Union's statistics unit Eurostat said Tuesday. Other newly published Eurostat data showed a 0.6...
03/08/2004
Royal Bank of Scotland today added another £3.38 billion to the bumper profits haul accumulated by the UK's biggest banks in the first six months of 2004 The group, whose brands include NatWest and...
03/08/2004
A manufacturing recovery is well under way, a closely watched report suggests, with the sector growing at the fastest rate in nearly 10 years. The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply said...
03/08/2004
Toyota Motor Corp., the world's biggest automaker by market value, said first-quarter profit rose 29 percent to a record on cost cuts and rising sales of Camry cars and Prius gasoline-electric...
03/08/2004
European stock markets remained higher at midday on Tuesday, carrying over the momentum from the previous session, after a late rally as fears over security in the US began to ease. By midsession,...
03/08/2004
Greek Cypriot refugees from the Turkish-occupied municipalities of Lapithos and Karavas in the Kyrenia district, sent a petition to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, in which they underline that the...
03/08/2004
Cyprus Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister George Lillikas will have a series of meetings with neighbouring countries in order to explore whether they are interested in participating in the...
30/07/2004
House prices experienced their first fall this year, a new reports shows, in the latest evidence to suggest the runaway housing market has been stopped in its tracks. Property specialist Hometrack...
26/07/2004
European Union (EU) foreign ministers met Monday to finalize their negotiating position at crunch World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks which open in Geneva this week. Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot...
26/07/2004