• Retail sales in Brazil fell for a second straight month in August even as supermarket sales firmed, government data showed on Tuesday, in another sign of weakness as the economy struggles to…

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  • Russia’s budget deficit for January-September 2016 amounted to 1.576 trillion rubles ($25.09 billion) or 2.6% of GDP, according to the finance ministry, Tass reported. The federal budget deficit…

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  • British inflation recorded its biggest jump in two years last month, setting the tone for a steep rise in prices over the coming year as sterling’s post-Brexit plunge squeezes household finances,…

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  • Canadian manufacturing sales in August jumped much more than expected on widespread strength, reinforcing expectations that broad economic growth rebounded in the third quarter, Reuters reported.…

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  • Australia’s prospects for maintaining economic growth that will stimulate job creation and eventually higher wages and inflation are “reasonable,” the central bank said.

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  • Kenya’s debt burden has soared to Sh3 trillion ($29.6 billion)–and it is growing rapidly as fears of more taxation for Kenyans increase.

    In a period of six months this year, the Jubilee…

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  • Saudi Arabia has had a tough time weathering the crash in oil prices. GDP growth which was 10% in 2011, slumped to just 2.7% by 2013. Although it has marginally improved to around 3.5% by 2015, it…

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  • Asian markets climbed on Tuesday as mixed readings on the US economy and comments from a top Federal Reserve official raised expectations that US interest rate rises would be gradual.

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  • Managing Director of Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran Mohammad Saeed-Nejad said the government earns $16-17 billion from marine industry every year. “Latest figures show the marine economy…

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  • Esfahan Steel Company has launched its long-delayed rail manufacturing line, as many criticize the government for the import of rail tracks over perceived damage to the fledgling homegrown…

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  • Khouzestan Steel Company, the largest Iranian semis producer, keeps enhancing its positions in the Far Eastern slab market.

    Over the past few weeks, the supplier has managed to sign several…

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  • Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index gained 142.30 points or 0.18% to end Tuesday trade at 77,849.5.

    More than 858 million shares valued at $60.5 million changed hands for the day.

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  • With the first development phase of Kish South Kaveh Steel Company going on stream, domestic crude steel production capacity has reached 31 million tons per annum, Minister of Industries, Mining…

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  • German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt will travel to Iran with a trade delegation on Friday to meet Abbas Akhoundi and Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, Iranian ministers of roads and industries…

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  • The Central Bank of Iran's figures show the government’s tax revenues increased by 25% in the first five months of the current Iranian year (started March 20) compared with last year's…

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  • The International Exhibition and Convention Center of Anzali Free Zone in the northern Gilan Province is hosting the First Exhibition of Livestock, Poultry, Aquaculture, Dairy Products,…

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  • Iran Shipbuilding and Offshore Industries Complex delivered the new Iran-Kashan container ship to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines in Bandar Abbas on Tuesday. The vessel, which travels…

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  • Tehran hosts a meeting of customs directors from the Economic Cooperation Organization on Wednesday, which will discuss ways of promoting cooperation, facilitating trade and fighting smuggling.

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  • Iran exported 4.3 million tons of non-oil goods worth $1.4 billion to India during the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 20), registering a 5% increase over the similar period…

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  • The 18th Marine Industries Conference and Iran International Maritime and Offshore Technologies Exhibition, otherwise known as IRANIMEX 2016, opened in Kish Free Trade Zone on Tuesday.

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  • Natural gas has been discovered in a part of the North Sea—an area that up until now, had slim chances of containing reserves.

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  • Officials from Saudi Arabia say oil at $50 to $60 a barrel would ensure adequate global supply, setting out a potential price band for the producer club before its meeting in Vienna next month.

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  • Kuwait's finance minister and acting oil minister, Anas al-Saleh, said on Tuesday he was optimistic that an understanding on production "at least" would be reached between producers at an OPEC…

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  • A group of Italian investors has voiced interest in financing a development project in Jam Petrochemical Complex (JPC) in the southern Bushehr Province.

    According to Shana, an Italian…

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  • Iran's October crude and condensate exports are set to hold near five-year highs seen in September, a source with knowledge of its preliminary tanker schedule said, reflecting Tehran's success in…

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