Business

New York: Visa, the world’s largest payments network, posted fiscal-fourth quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates as card spending by consumers...

Dubai: Banks from Saudi Arabia to Dubai are feeling the pain of the Middle East’s slowdown. Many of the region’s largest banks missed analysts’...

Nairobi: African exporters of oil and commodities should remove subsidies and boost taxes to weather their slowest growth in more than two decades, the...

Muscat: His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers today received the heads of delegations taking part...

Muscat: Seventh Conference of Heads of Supreme Courts in the Arab countries began at Al Bustan Palace Hotel under the auspices of Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq...

Muscat: As much as OMR2 billion is expected by the Oman government from divesting stakes in state-owned companies, said a top-level official of the Capital...

Muscat: Amid poor trading volumes, the MSM30 Index declined by 0.12 per cent to close at 5,531.45 points. The MSM Sharia Index closed at 848.57 points, down...

Seoul: Number of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners demanding compensation for being inconvenienced by the smartphone’s troubles is starting to rise. In what...

Muscat: Most of the outstanding dues of contracting firms have been paid by the government, said the executive president of the Central Bank of Oman. “May...

Muscat: Oman plans to borrow as much as $10 billion from overseas markets in the next four years to meet budget deficit in the aftermath of a severe fall in...