term growth," Conference Board economist Ataman Ozyildirim said in a statement.
"However, easing in the LEI's six-month change suggests that we may be entering a period of more moderate expansion. With the February increase, the LEI remains in (...)
quarter profit. Both income and revenue beat Wall Street's expectations. The lender got a boost from improving results in its Citi Holdings unit, which is selling off assets such as mortgages that soured in the financial crisis. Citi's shares surged (...)
city roads, bridges, and rain drainage and control systems. It also includes other environment-related projects.
The budget also includes appropriations for studies and design of public transport projects in Makkah and Riyadh.
Infrastructure and (...)
oil public and private sector, it is expected to achieve a growth rate of 6.99% as growth of the government sector is expected to reach 1.56% and the private sector by 9.38 % at current prices. The petroleum sector is decreased by 3.83% at the (...)
range mobile communication network services amounted to 12.28 million by the end of 2012, representing a spread of 42.1% in terms of population.
The growth rate in this service was 40.8% by the end of 2012, the report said, adding that there were (...)
German cooperation in the field of energy and health will be organized.
The Mayor also commended the positive impact on the German people through the Exhibition of Saudi Archaeological Masterpieces Through the Ages held in Berlin Museum which shed (...)
both at home and abroad - and to broaden the range of refined goods created in the Kingdom, both for use on the domestic market and for export.
In addition to oil, there are four major gas fields under development and Saudi Arabia has also (...)
immigrant visa processing capacity in China and Brazil by 40 percent this year and expand a visa waiver program that lets participating nationals to travel to the U.S. for stays of 90 days or less without a visa.
Obama said too often "we've seen (...)
fixing
LONDON — Former ICC Anti-Corruption Unit chief Paul Condon has made a sensational claim that every international team was involved in match-fixing at some stage in the 1990s.
Condon, who was founding head of the ICC's ACSU, told the (...)
Qatar government unprecedented infrastructure spending in time for the 2022 soccer World Cup boosted banks' revenues.
Net income from lending at Qatar National Bank averaged QR1.82 billion ($530 million) in the first three quarters of 2011, 64 (...)
oil sector GDP deflator, which is the most important economic indicator to measure inflation at the level of the economy as a whole, is expected to increase by 1.5% in the year 1431/1432H (2010) over the previous year.
The Minister of Finance (...)
city roads, bridges, and road lights, which should help ease traffic bottlenecks. It also includes other environment-related projects.
Transportation and telecommunication:
a.Total expenditure amounts to SR 25.2 (US $6.7) billions, an increase (...)
Saharan African states. Such increase encouraged food companies in GCC countries to increasingly convert their interests towards the Red Sea basin in an attempt to expand their operations, secure supply lines and take advantage of African large (...)
OIC trade and food security on a sustainable basis, so as to foster economic growth and improve standard of living of the vulnerable segments of OIC population.
The Secretary General implored the meeting of Board of Directors to give adequate (...)
skilled job offers for Saudi nationals, continuous improvement for the productivity of national laborers through education and training, and matching the national human resources training programs with the real requirements in the labor market.
He (...)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was named Person of the Year by Time magazine Wednesday, giving him a high-profile boost as he tries to fend off proposals that might weaken the Fed's independence.
The selection puts the mild-mannered (...)
banking became more popular for salary payments and between individuals.
Express service business increased by SR5.86bn - with SR5.6bn coming from transfers between individuals and SR191bn through group payments.
Meanwhile, online transactions (...)
oil sector is expected to increase by (3.6) percent in 1428/1429H (2008) over the previous year.
The Finance Minister said that the initial projections on the public debt indicate that the net public debt will fall at the end of the current fiscal (...)
government sectors. In this context, the Cabinet listened to the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on exerting utmost efforts to put all capabilities at the service of pilgrims to enable them perform this great pillar comfortably (...)
Libyan Holding Company to at least $ 100 million. The construction of the station is scheduled to start before the end of 2008.
The two parties also agreed to implement agreements signed in the past, which provided for exchanging expertise in areas (...)
oil exports during the first quarter of this year 2008. The exports increased by 21% compared with the first quarter of the last year. The value of exports amounted to SR 29666 million.
The Acting Minister of Culture and Information noted that the (...)
2009 "through a succession of capacity increments."
"We are also actively pursuing plans to build three in-kingdom refineries in partnerships with the international oil industry, with a total capacity of 1 million b/d. Our overall downstream (...)
and long-term plans and its balanced strategy to increase production. That strategy is based on four elements: natural resources; Saudi Aramco's huge database; qualified, well-trained human resources; and careful reservoir management to attain best (...)
city roads, intersection and bridges, road lights, and cleaning-related projects.
Transportation and telecommunication :
a. Total expenditure amounts to SR (16.4) billion.
b. New capital budget total SR (14.6) billion. New projects include roads (...)
Shuailiybya plant / Phase III /to 150 thousand cubic meters per day to meet the growing need for water in Jeddah Province.
The report issued by SWCC stressed that the pipelines of Riyadh / Seder / Alwashem / Al Qassim were completed. Besides this, (...)