Economy

New York: Investors are starting to doubt whether they can count on the protective embrace of an accommodative US central bank when markets go...

New York: Federal Reserve policymakers fretted on Friday that they could face the next US recession with virtually the same arsenal of policies used in the...

Washington: Senior US officials will discuss trade disputes next week with a top Chinese economic official when he visits Washington, a senior US official...

Muscat: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Sohar Port and Freezone and Netherlands-based Strukton International for the development of a...

MUscat: The value of Oman’s non-oil exports touched OMR2,600.8 million in the first 10 months of 2017, 28.2 per cent up from the OMR2,028.4 million...

Manama: Bahrain will go ahead with imposing a value-added tax (VAT) to strengthen state finances, Minister of Finance Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa...

Tokyo: A second year of slowing growth in the US auto market is forcing Japanese automakers to look beyond discounts to grow market share and focus more on...

London: The emergence of self-driving electric cars and travel sharing are set to dent oil consumption by 2040, oil and gas giant BP said, forecasting a...

Seoul: South Korea's crypto-currency industry is anticipating much better times as the market regulator changes tack from its tough stance on the...

Caracas: President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that Venezuela had received $735 million in the first day of a pre-sale of the country's "petro”...