World
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Region
6/21/2023 6:48:24 PM
France's new special envoy for Lebanon arrived in Beirut on Wednesday for talks with Lebanese leaders, state media reported, as bitter divisions continue to plague the crisis-hit country.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
6/21/2023 6:07:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi appears to rule out any further devaluation of the pound.
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Business
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Economy
6/21/2023 5:10:04 PM
The Egyptian Cabinet has abolished tax exemptions for state entities and affiliated companies in economic activities in order to implement the principle of parity of treatment between the private and public sectors and extended licensing rights to new industries in free zones.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/21/2023 12:39:01 PM
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced $1.3 billion in fresh US economic assistance for Ukraine, and vowed that Russia would eventually pay financially for its invasion.
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Business
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Economy
6/20/2023 7:42:21 PM
The Egyptian giant Orascom Industrial Parks signed a $120 million deal with the Indian packaging solutions company Flex Accipto to expand its plant in Sokhna within the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE).
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Business
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Economy
6/20/2023 4:18:07 PM
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that Egypt needs to work on preventing the leakage of foreign exchange (FX) reserves caused by the multiple exchange rates.
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Business
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Economy
6/20/2023 3:44:21 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's influential ruling coalition partner said Tuesday that the government needed to take "painful" economic recovery measures that included interest rate hikes.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
6/20/2023 12:12:00 PM
The first quarter results of most Egyptian listed companies have been positive despite the current economic downturn.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/19/2023 10:48:06 PM
The Egyptian State Information Service (SIS) issued a statement in response to what it called the "fallacies and allegations" contained in a report published by the British newspaper The Economist on the economic and political situation in Egypt.
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World
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Africa
6/19/2023 10:36:54 AM
The European Union and Kenya are set to announce a trade deal on Monday, EU officials said, in a coup for Brussels as it seeks deeper economic ties with Africa.
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Business
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Economy
6/17/2023 9:56:44 AM
United Arab Emirates leader Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan probed, in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, the possibility of establishing trilateral cooperation with Egypt in the Russian Industrial Zone project located in Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone.
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Business
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Economy
6/15/2023 4:52:23 PM
The European Central Bank on Thursday said eurozone inflation was still too elevated as it hiked interest rates for an eighth consecutive time to a two-decade high, despite a darkening economic outlook.
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Business
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Economy
6/15/2023 2:34:45 PM
The German economy will contract in 2023, two leading economic institutes said Thursday, revising down earlier forecasts after persistently high inflation contributed to a weaker-than-expected start to the year.
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Egypt
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Society
6/14/2023 8:59:57 PM
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, stated that the policies of global domination, materialist philosophies, and unethical economic doctrines were primarily responsible for the phenomenon of terrorism -- which Islam disavows.
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Egypt
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Tourism
6/14/2023 8:13:18 PM
Egypt and Saudi Arabia are among the ten top-ranking traveller destinations in 2023, Mastercard Economics Institute revealed in its Travel Industry Trends 2023 report on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
6/14/2023 3:17:29 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Mali's junta, Colonel Assimi Goita, discussed security and economic relations between their two countries, both sides reported on Wednesday.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
6/13/2023 11:00:25 PM
The private sector in Egypt and Iraq have a great partnership potential to carry out major tasks in various sectors to push economic development in both countries,” Prime Minister Mohamed Al-Sudani said on Tuesday.
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World
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Region
6/13/2023 8:49:17 PM
The UAE Minister of Economy Abdullah Al-Marri will represent his country as guest of honour at the 26th St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which will be held 14-17 June, according to a diplomatic source who spoke to the Russian Sputnik news agency.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
6/13/2023 8:26:25 PM
The recent agreement between the Tunisian government and the African Export-Import Bank is just one of many initiatives designed to support the Tunisian economy, writes Karam Said
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World
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Region
6/13/2023 2:07:10 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Monday on Tunisia to agree to IMF reforms and avoid falling off an "economic cliff" after the European Union dangled a major aid package.
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