Already struggling to make ends meet, Egyptian families are suffering from a leap in the price of fresh produce that's putting pinched household budgets under further strain.
For the last two weeks grocery shoppers in Cairo have have to dig (...)
The stock market main index ended the week in negative territory "Because of profit-taking processes after a six-day buying spree," comments Walaa Hazem, asset manager at HC Securities.
Individual investors widened their participation on (...)
Workers and employees of the Egyptian weekly magazine and daily newspaper Rose Al-Youssef have been demonstrating and staging a sit-in since early Tuesday morning against the chairman of the board, editor-in-chief and corruption at the (...)
Egypt's ministries of finance and labour were swamped by thousands of application forms after they announced an employment scheme offering jobs to all citizens regardless of qualifications.
"Send your personal information to Post Office Box (...)
Tuesday morning brought the swearing in by the ruling military council of Egypt's latest cabinet . Nearly a dozen new members took seats alongside a mixture of veteran politicians and cabinet members appointed by Mubarak in his final days in a (...)
Egypt's new cabinet met for the first time on Wednesday amid protests from workers' organisations about the track record of the new holders of economy-related positions.
The appointment of two controversial new ministers in the reshuffled cabinet (...)
Four new companies for steel and rebars were among the nine to be granted licenses for the production of 2 million tons of iron and 1 million tons of billet, the Industrial Development Authority announced in a press release.
The companies were (...)
The last year has seen financial ministries and authorities launching their own hotlines for callers wishing to register complaints. The General Authority for Investment's (GAFI) and one specializing in incidents of corruption are the latest to (...)
Inflation is expected to increase slightly, a poll by Ahram Online found.
Four analysts out of five predicted a slight increase of inflation rate, which will be announced tomorrow, Thursday December 9.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for (...)