Cyprus exports grew faster than imports during January 2019, narrowing the island’s trade deficit by €138.8 million.

Credit card spending rose by 35% in the first three months of the year compared to 2018, JCC said recently while a monthly increase for March of €307,182,374 or 15% was seen.

House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.2% year-on-year in both the euro area and the EU in the fourth quarter of 2018 and by 1.6% in Cyprus, according to Eurostat.

Casino operator Melco announced recently the location of its two new satellite establishments in Ayia Napa and Paphos, which will be up and running by the end of 2019.

In March 2019, the credit rating agency Fitch upgraded Hellenic Bank’s Long – Term Issuer Default Rating from B to B+ as a result of the the completion of the acquisition of certain good assets and liabilities from the Cyprus Cooperative Bank Ltd (CCB) as well as the €150m capital increase which the Bank carried out.

The Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism (EPIC), in its latest study, identifies the factors that drive value and are important for companies’ sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as potential metrics to assess them.

The increased engagement of Robots and Artificial Intelligence in various aspects of modern business challenges the traditional perception we have of employment relationships and will almost inevitably bring considerable changes to the job market.

Paphos is once again in the lead as the most popular district for overseas buyers and investors for the first quarter, accounting for 40.6% of all sales in January-March 2019, according to preliminary data.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently revised downward its 2019 growth forecast for Cyprus to 3.5% from its October estimate of 4.2%.

The Cyprus Hydrocarbons Company (CHC) is in “advanced talks” with Noble Energy and its partners over the renegotiation of the production-sharing contract for the Aphrodite gas reservoir, the organisation’s chairman said recently.