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Emirates Group planning to cut about 30,000 jobs

Emirates Group plans to cut about 30,000 jobs to reduce costs amid the coronavirus outbreak, reducing employees by about 30 percent from more than 105,000 at the end of March, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is also considering speeding up the...

Makhlouf's defiant statements kill Syrian Lira in heart

(Zaman Al Wals)- The value of the Syrian pound (Lira) has been in hysterical dwindling on Sunday following new defiant statements by Bashar al-Assad's cousin and Telecom tycoon  Rami Makhlouf  who has refused to step down and warned of imminent collapse for the ailing economy....

Iran stock market booms, but analysts fear a growing bubble

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...