Even as U.S. sanctions, unemployment, inflation and low oil prices batter the Iranian economy, there seems to be at least one refuge for investors. The Tehran Stock Exchange has seen gains of 225 percent in the last year, with sharp increases even as the country struggled with one of the...

Beijing has urged the United States to stop the "unreasonable suppression of Huawei and Chinese enterprises" after Washington announced new export controls to restrict the tech giant's access to semiconductor technology. The latest restrictions on the world's second-largest smartphone...

Arab stock markets plunged almost a quarter in value in the first three months of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse in oil prices, a U.N. agency said Thursday. "The drop in oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a 23-percent average loss for major Arab stock...

Oil prices were up on Thursday with a surprise decline in US crude oil inventories and a fall in gasoline stocks that exceeded market expectations. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $29.52 per barrel at 0640 GMT for a 1.13% increase after closing on Wednesday at $29.19 a...