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Muscat: A foundation stone will be laid for the world’s largest Sebaic acid project in Duqm on Wednesday. The function will be held under the auspices of...

Muscat: Listed companies have a combined market capitalisation of OMR1.6 billion by the end of September 2016. The total market capitalisation of the Muscat...

Muscat: A forum to highlight investment opportunities and privatisation programmes in Oman – Outlook Oman – will be held under the auspices of Dr Ali...

Muscat: Oman’s nominal gross domestic product (GDP) derived from the petroleum sector contracted by 34 per cent in the first quarter of 2016 and that from...

New York: AT&T has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85 billion, sources have said, paving the way for what would be the...

Muscat: Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs received on Thursday Tobias Ellwood, Minister of State for the Middle East...

Moscow: Two years ago, the Kremlin’s oil flagship was foundering, hit by falling prices and international sanctions just as it faced $20 billion in debt...

San Francisco/Boston: The apparent lack of interest in Twitter by potential suitors may force the social media company to consider a route anathema to...

Seattle: Microsoft’s first-quarter sales and earnings topped analysts’ estimates, buoyed by growing demand for cloud-based software and services. Profit...

New York: General Electric (GE) cut its 2016 forecast for organic sales growth as the industrial giant grapples with a sluggish global economy that’s...