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MENA Newswire, NEW YORK: U.S. stock indexes ended Monday at record closing highs, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 posting modest gains, as investors balanced strength in select corporate shares against heightened political pressure on the

MENA Newswire, SAN FRANCISCO: Apple has entered into a multi year agreement with Google to integrate Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models into Siri, marking one of the most significant partnerships between the two technology companies in recent years and a

NEW YORK: Credit card lenders and payments companies slid in U.S. trading after President Donald Trump publicly backed a proposal to impose a one year cap of 10 percent on credit card interest rates, a move that immediately unsettled financial

MENA Newswire, CAIRO: Egypt’s annual core inflation rate declined to 11.8 percent in December, marking a continued slowdown in underlying price pressures, according to data released by the Central Bank of Egypt. The reading was down from 12.5 percent recorded

WASHINGTON: Senior executives from the largest U.S. oil companies have told President Donald Trump that they are not prepared to make firm investment commitments in Venezuela, underscoring continued caution toward the country’s energy sector despite renewed outreach from the White

MENA Newswire, SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI and SoftBank Group announced a joint investment of $1 billion in SB Energy, expanding a large-scale effort to build power and data center infrastructure to support artificial intelligence computing in the United States. The investment forms

MENA Newswire, KYIV: Ukraine has awarded development rights for the Dobra lithium deposit in the central Kirovohrad region to a consortium that includes TechMet, a U.S.-backed critical minerals investment firm, and U.S. billionaire Ronald S. Lauder, The New York Times

NEW YORK: The global economy is experiencing a period of subdued economic performance marked by weak momentum and limited expansion, according to the latest assessment by the United Nations. The organisation said current conditions reflect an environment in which economic

Mena Newswire, NEW DELHI: The United Nations has projected that India’s economic growth will moderate to 6.6 percent in 2026, easing from an estimated 7.4 percent in 2025, as higher trade tariffs imposed by the United States weigh on global

MENA Newswire, TOKYO: Japanese long-term government bonds recorded net inflows from foreign investors during the week ended Jan. 3, marking the first such inflow in three weeks, according to official data released on Thursday. The return of overseas buying followed