Business

Muscat: The MSM30 Index retreated 0.37 per cent to end the session at 5,090.68 points. The MSM Sharia Index closed at 717.35 points, down 0.13 per cent....

Muscat: His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mohammed Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers returned home early this morning after leading the...

Muscat: Following the launch of the initial public offering (IPO) of Muscat City Desalination Company (MCDC) SAOG (under transformation), investors’...

Muscat: The shares of Oman’s largest insurer National Life and General Insurance Company SAOC (NLGIC) got listed on Wednesday on Muscat Securities Market...

Paris: US firm General Electric will cut 4,500 jobs across Europe after reviewing assets it purchased from France’s Alstom in 2015, French newspaper Les...

London: Britain's economy is ending 2017 lagging the euro zone's strong recovery as the effects of last year's Brexit vote weigh on shoppers and...

Washington: The US trade deficit increased to a nine-month high in October due to rising oil prices and the widening of America's long-standing deficits...

San Francisco: A rare public spat in the technology industry escalated on Tuesday when Google said it would block its video streaming application YouTube...

Tokyo: Asian stocks slipped across the board on Wednesday as various factors including weaker metals prices and monetary policy concerns in China soured...

London: Oil steadied above $62 a barrel on Tuesday as expectations of a drop in US crude inventories and prolonged supply curbs by Opec and other producers...