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Muscat: Rebound in index heavyweights lifted the MSM30 Index to 5,027.35 points, a gain of 0.59 per cent. The MSM Sharia Index ended at 742.05 points, up by...

London: Oil prices firmed on Wednesday, holding near eight-week highs, as a fall in US inventories bolstered expectations that the long-oversupplied market...

Las Vegas: Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday announced it was rolling out a free version of its antivirus software across the globe, a product launch...

Washington: US consumer confidence jumped to a near 16-year high in July amid optimism over the labour market while house prices maintained their upward...

Brussels: The European Central Bank (ECB) should maintain a "firmly accommodative" monetary policy for an "extended period", the...

London: Uganda's new-found oil reserves may account for as much as 4 per cent of its economy annually in coming years if managed well, the International...

San Francisco: Twitter heads toward its quarterly earnings report on Thursday with a stock that has risen more than 40 per cent since April when much of...

Washington: The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates unchanged on Wednesday and possibly hint that it will start winding down its massive...

Shanghai: China blue-chip stocks fell for a second day on Wednesday on lingering fears of further regulatory tightening, even though most China watchers do...

Muscat: A new police station in the Mirbat area of Dhofar was officially inaugurated on Tuesday morning with a celebration by the Royal Oman Police and...