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UK employers call for overhaul of tax system
British businesses demanded that finance minister Rishi Sunak stop raising their taxes and instead offer more help to meet the challenges of Brexit, Covid-19 and climate change when he makes major budget statements next month.
13 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Britain announces biggest auction round in renewable energy
The British government announced on Monday the biggest auction round of its renewable energy scheme, hoping to build up enough extra offshore wind capacity to power about 8 million homes.
13 September 2021, 18:00 PM
India cuts import taxes on vegetable oils to calm prices
India has cut base import taxes on palm oil, soyoil and sunflower oil, according to a government notification, as the world’s biggest vegetable oil buyer tries to cool near-record price rises.
13 September 2021, 18:00 PM
10pc of UAE private sector workers should be Emiratis in five years
Private sector companies in the UAE will have to fill 10 per cent of their positions with Emirati nationals in five years time, the UAE said on Sunday in its latest tranche of economic reforms.
12 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Greece to boost its 2021 growth estimate: PM
Greece will revise its 2021 economic growth estimate to 5.9 per cent from 3.6 percent earlier, after an unexpectedly positive second quarter, the prime minister said Saturday.
12 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Norway’s wealth fund, a jumbo piggy bank to be used prudently
Norway, which holds legislative elections on Monday, has the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, a piggy bank of more than $1.4 trillion.
12 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Kenya suffers huge job losses
Kenya’s economy shrank for the first time in three decades last year as the country was battered by the coronavirus pandemic, and almost 740,000 people were thrown out of work, a new government survey said.
11 September 2021, 18:00 PM
India approves Airbus-Tata deal for military aircraft
European aerospace giant Airbus has clinched a landmark $3 billion deal to make military aircraft for India in partnership with local conglomerate Tata, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
9 September 2021, 18:00 PM
China’s factory inflation hits 13-year high
China’s factory gate inflation hit a 13-year high in August driven by roaring raw materials prices despite Beijing’s attempts to cool them, putting more pressure on manufacturers in the world’s second-largest economy.
9 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Ford to stop manufacturing cars in India
Ford Motor Company will stop manufacturing cars in India and shut down its plants in the country, two sources told Reuters, becoming the latest automaker to quit a market still dominated by Asian rivals.
9 September 2021, 18:00 PM
US growth ‘downshifted’ amid labour, supply shortages
US economic growth “downshifted slightly” in July and August amid shortages of workers and materials, as well as concerns about the rise of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the virus that causes Covid-19, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
9 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Afghans fear for jobs and money after Taliban takeover
As a nurse at one of Kabul’s main hospitals, Latifa Alizada was the breadwinner for her family, providing for her three young boys and unemployed husband.Now -- since the Taliban rolled into Afghanistan’s capital -- she too is jobless, and worried about the future.
9 September 2021, 18:00 PM
IMF gives Tanzania $567m in Covid economic support
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has loaned Tanzania more than half a billion dollars in emergency financing as the coronavirus pandemic drags on its economy and critical tourism sector.
8 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Inflation could prompt ECB to tighten policy quicker
The European Central Bank could tighten policy sooner than many expect as inflationary pressures could prove to be persistent, ECB policymaker Robert Holzmann said in a contribution to Eurofi Magazine on Wednesday.
8 September 2021, 18:00 PM
South African state insurer in talks over larger bailout
South Africa’s state-owned insurance company Sasria is in talks with National Treasury for a larger bailout than the 3.9 billion rand ($272 million) already promised, its managing director told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday.
8 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Singapore-based company to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat
Singapore-based Agrocorp Pte International yesterday got the contract to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat to the Directorate General (DG) of Food, according to a decision of the cabinet committee on purchase.
8 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Lebanon working to secure World Bank financing for power plan
The Lebanese government said on Wednesday it was working with the World Bank to secure financing for a plan to import Egyptian gas via Jordan and Syria to generate power for Lebanon, which is struggling with an economic crisis and acute power shortages.
8 September 2021, 18:00 PM
G7 finance ministers to discuss global tax reform
Finance ministers from the world’s seven wealthiest nations are set to meet later this week to discuss global tax reform, according to the UK Treasury on Tuesday.
8 September 2021, 18:00 PM
In world first, bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador
El Salvador on Tuesday became the first country to embrace bitcoin as legal tender, with consumer demand crashing its brand-new cyber “wallet” system even as the currency’s value seesawed against the US dollar.
8 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Japan upgrades Q2 GDP on stronger business spending
Japan’s economy grew faster than the initially estimated in the April-June quarter, helped by solid capital expenditure, although a resurgence in Covid-19 is undermining service-sector consumption and clouding the outlook.
8 September 2021, 18:00 PM