
Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Friday tensions with South Sudan over oil transit payments could lead to war, stepping up the rhetoric in a row over crude reserves between the two coun

Turkish inflation climbed for a fourth consecutive month in January to the highest level since November 2008 after food prices surged. Bonds yields slumped on speculation the rate may now decline.

Turkey hired three banks for a sale of Samurai bonds guaranteed by Japan Bank for International Cooperation, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Ukraine's exports of maize to Iran dropped 40 per cent in January as problems collecting payment from Tehran due to tightening sanctions hampered trade, consultancy ProAgro said on Monday, quoting por

Egypt’s central bank left its key interest rate unchanged after the government requested a $3.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund and parliamentary elections eased concerns over poli

Egyptian investment firm Arabiyya Lel Estithmaraat's (AIC) plan to buy Egyptian businessman Aladdin Saba's stake in investment bank Beltone Financial Holding has run into trouble after Beltone rejecte

Bahraini financial firms face a tough task raising funding in 2012 as political tensions from last year's Arab Spring unrest fester and real estate investments show no sign of paying off.

Smaller Gulf banks, squeezed by difficult funding conditions and flush with bond paper following the busiest period of issuance from the region on record, are increasingly exploiting the repo market t

The central banks of China and Qatar agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas such as developing their financial markets, a statement said on Thursday, the latest in a series of agreements that the P

Societe Generale's private banking arm plans to close its office in Bahrain, it said on Thursday in the latest exit by a bank from the Gulf island kingdom, as France's second-biggest listed bank aims