Business

Dubai/Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's $300-billion privatisation programme was billed as the sale of the century when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled...

Washington: A measure of US factory activity fell more than expected in November as a gauge of employment cooled, but the index continued to point to...

Beijing: Executives from Chinese companies specialising in offering consumers small, easy-to-get loans became something of a fixture on Wall Street this...

Muscat: The foundation stone for Oman’s first bus assembly unit was laid on Thursday at the Special Economic Zone of Duqm (SEZAD) as the Sultanate...

Vienna: OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers look poised to agree on Thursday to extend output cuts until the end of 2018 to finish clearing a global glut of...

San Francisco: Top executives at Uber Technologies Inc used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified...

London: The dollar climbed on Thursday, moving further away from a two-month low hit earlier this week, as investors added bets the U.S. central bank will...

Muscat: The draft general budget for the fiscal year 2018 has been referred by the the State Council Office to the extended committee composed of the...

Kuwait: The gCloud Project of Information Technology Authority (ITA) and Advanced Manpower Management System of the Ministry of Manpower won two awards as...

Muscat: Diversity in the real estate product offerings of both local and international firms can boost the real estate sector in the Sultanate, said...