US, Greece foreign ministers to meet over Eastern Mediterranean tensions

Extraordinary EU foreign ministers meeting has been set for Friday

Daily News Egypt

Businesses plan major operational changes as resilience prioritised: HSBC Navigator

The new Navigator report, “Building Back Better”, from HSBC Commercial Banking, shows that many firms neglected contingency planning in key operational areas such as technology, finance and sustainability prior to…

Daily News Egypt

EIPICO reports 17% y-o-y revenues decline to EGP 1.46bn in H1 2020

Pharmaceutical company underperformed on market, reporting aggressive 31% decline in retail sales

Alyaa Stohy

Misr Cement records higher margins in Q2 despite subdued volumes

Company reports net profit of EGP 14m, down 63% q-o-q, but up 180% y-o-y

Alyaa Stohy

Egypt Tourism Minister, investors explore promoting travel destinations abroad

Meeting discusses possibility of seeking assistance from experts to develop long-term tourism marketing plan

Nehal Samir

SODIC gross sales in 7M 2020 equal 2019 levels despite pandemic

Gross contracted sales of residential units reported at EGP 1.83bn in H1 of 2020

Alyaa Stohy

EALB to increase social housing finance to EGP 2bn

Bank’s mortgage finance portfolio has doubled to 8,000 clients

Hossam Mounir

Planning Minister discusses 3rd phase of financial grant to irregular workers

El-Said says training programmes for irregular workers will be announced after grant disbursement

Daily News Egypt

South Africa COVID-19 infection rate appears to be stabilizing

For several days, daily confirmed cases in South Africa have hovered around 3,000, compared with about 10,000 a week ago.

Xinhua

British economy sees deepest quarterly contraction since 1955

"The British economy recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has led to the biggest fall in quarterly GDP on record," said Jonathan Athow

Xinhua