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Bahrain announces discovery of 80 bn barrels of oil

Bahrain on Wednesday announced its newly discovered shale oil reserve was estimated at more than 80 billion barrels, making the once-marginal oil producer potentially a major player in the market. The size of recoverable oil -- or oil that can be extracted -- is still under study, Oil...

Cyprus government makes deposit in Co-op Bank ahead of sale

The Cyprus government deposited Tuesday 2.5 billion euros ($3.1 billion) into the island-nation's troubled Cooperative Bank in an attempt to dispel any uncertainty over its future. Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said he hoped the deposit, mainly in the form of a bond issue,...

Turkish exports up in March

Turkey's exports in March totaled $15.5 billion, an 8.01 percent rise compared with the same month in 2017, according to provisional data of the Ministry of Customs and Trade on Monday. The imports climbed 12.77 percent to over $21.4 billion, amounting to a foreign trade deficit of...