Business

Muscat: The value of announced merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions with any Middle Eastern & North African (Mena) involvement reached $13.9 billion...

Cairo: Egypt is targeting a primary surplus of 2 per cent of GDP in its 2018-19 fiscal year budget, the finance ministry said on Friday, as it looks to...

Muscat: LG Electronics (LG) opened the doors to its new Software Upgrade Centre in South Korea, the first such facility aimed at providing customers...

Barcelona: The Barcelona-based Fox Economic said in a report it published recently that the Omani economy has witnessed a remarkable economic transformation...

Mexico City/Washington: US trade negotiators have significantly softened their demands to increase regional automotive content under a reworked NAFTA trade...

Lima: Latin American leaders met in Peru for a regional summit on Friday that was overshadowed by Washington's decision to order military strikes on...

Tokyo: Japan will propose setting up a new framework to discuss trade issues with the United States in a summit next week, in hopes of persuading it to...

Beijing: China's commerce ministry said on Thursday trade negotiations with the United States would be impossible as Washington's attempts at...

New Delhi: India's state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) is conducting an internal investigation into an alleged $2 billion fraud and more heads could...

Singapore: Oil markets remained tense on Thursday on concerns over a military escalation in Syria, although prices remained way off Wednesday's highest...