Business

Muscat: With the sustained drop in crude oil prices, there was a slowdown in the economy in 2015 as well as in the first few months of 2016, according to...

Muscat: An overwhelming response was received by the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) from banks for its development bond issue. The CBO announced the results of...

Muscat: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China on his country’s...

Dubai: The challenges Opec will confront trying to limit output were evident just minutes after the group agreed on the new plan. In an angry and sometimes...

San Francisco: Google repackaged its cloud services and corporate software and hardware offerings into a new unit called Google Cloud on Thursday, the...

Washington: Consumer spending was little changed in August as income growth cooled, pointing to a softening in consumption after a run of strong gains. The...

Brussels: A planned reform of global banking rules being discussed by the United States, Europe, Japan and other major economies risks negatively affecting...

Sydney: China's factory sector struggled to gain speed in September while Japanese inflation went backwards in August despite the best efforts of...

London: The UK current-account deficit widened in the second quarter as the trade gap hit a 2 1/2-year high and Britain continued to record heavy outflows...

London: Switzerland's Nestle, the world's largest food company, wants to tune up your guts. Last weekend, it hosted global experts in Playa del...