Tokyo: Japanese stocks closed higher on Monday. The benchmark Nikkei 225 advanced 1.55 percent to close at 72,353.96, after touching an intraday record peak of 72,831.73. The broader Topix gained 1.24 percent to 4,095.05.
According to Qatar News Age…
Doha: The Industrial Production index (IPI) for June 2024 reached 96.1 point, increased by 2.5 percent compared to the previous month (May 2024), and decreased by 7.5 percent, when compared to the corresponding month in 2023.
This index measures the …
The price of Kuwaiti oil went down 56 cents to reach $79.92 per barrel on Thursday, compared to $80.48 pb the day before, according to Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) on Friday.
On the global scale, the Brent crude futures’ contracts went up $1.28…
The Central Bank of China conducted 137.8 billion yuan (nearly $19.28 billion) of seven-day reverse repos at an interest rate of 1.7% on Friday.
The move aims to keep liquidity reasonable and ample in the banking system, the central bank said, accord…
China’s industrial output sustained stable growth in July with booming new growth drivers and strong exports.
The country’s value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, expanded 5.1 percent year on year in July, data from China’s N…
Doha: Gold prices in the Qatari market rose by 0.88 percent during the current week, reaching USD 2,452.93000 per ounce, according to the data issued by Qatar National Bank (QNB).
The data showed that the price of an ounce of gold rose from USD 2,431…
China’s fixed-asset investment rose 3.6 percent year on year in the first seven months of 2024, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Thursday.
The NBS said in a statement that the fixed-asset investment in the private sector total…
The inflation rate in Saudi Arabia stabilized at 1.5 percent during July 2024 compared to the last five months of this year and equal to the previous month of June as it reached 1.5 percent, thus maintaining its relative stability.
The Consumer Price…
South Korea’s car exports fell 9.1 percent last month from a year earlier due to a high base effect, data showed Thursday.
The combined value of car shipments came to US$5.4 billion in July, down from $5.9 billion won in the same month last year, acc…
Doha: The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) general index closed at 10,125.470 points on Thursday, 17.270 points (0.17 percent) up from its previous closing.
A trading volume of 112,358,192 shares was registered in 12,682 transactions in all sectors, with a…