Kazakhstan agrees on transit period following WTO accession to support domestic producers
Kazakhstan has been seeking to enter the WTO since 1993.
Apple, Samsung earn all smartphone profits, and more
Apple and Samsung are grabbing virtually all the profits in the red-hot smartphone market while most other makers are losing money.
Fitch Ratings affirms Kazakhstan's Long-term foreign and local currency IDRs at 'BBB+' and 'A-' respectively
The Outlooks on the Long-term IDRs are Stable.
Euro "too strong", says European Commission's Tajani
European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani said Wednesday the euro was overvalued and urged the zone's central bank to help exporters by weakening the single currency.
No grain storage problems this year: Mamytbekov
Kazakhstan's Agriculture Minister Asylzhan Mamytbekov has assured there would no problems with grain storage this year.
Rosneft to supply crude to Kazakhstan in exchange for transit to China
Rosneft will supply Kazakhstan with additional crude in exchange for the oil transit to China.
Pension assets to be fully consolidated in the Q1 2014: Central Bank Governor
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed the Government late January to merge all the pension funds into a single government-owned entity.
Chevron ordered to pay Ecuador $9.51 bn on appeal: court
An Ecuadoran court Tuesday upheld a ruling that US oil giant Chevron was liable for environmental damage in its Amazon basin region by sister company Texaco, but ordered it to pay a reduced $9.51 billion.
China Singles Day online shoppers spend almost $6 bn
Chinese shoppers spent a record 35.0 billion yuan ($5.7 billion) at the country's biggest online marketplaces on Singles Day, their operator said Tuesday, after the festival created by e-tailers to persuade the loveless to console themselves with retail therapy.