Business

Dubai: The government of Oman has chosen five banks to arrange the Sultanate's first international bond issue in almost 20 years, sources aware of the...

London: Oil is poised for a third weekly advance as declining US crude production provided more evidence that the market is rebalancing. Futures gained 1.4...

Cairo: Egypt's war on black market currency traders is not going to plan. One month after a devaluation that was supposed to ease an acute dollar...

Beijing: Apple's online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online...

Athens: Greece and its international lenders have made progress in negotiations on economic reforms, a Greek government official said on Thursday, but a...

Tokyo: Having adopted a negative interest rate on some excess reserves to penalise financial institutions for leaving money idle, the Bank of Japan (BOJ)...

Hong Kong: The Hong Kong exchange has begun a Brexit impact assessment, and some Asian asset managers are looking to set up new bases in mainland Europe...

Tokyo: Sony will postpone its forecasts for the current fiscal year while it assesses the damage from an earthquake that shut its main plant for camera...

San Francisco: Google's parent Alphabet missed Wall Street targets for first-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday as it spent more money to build...

San Francisco: Microsoft reported results that fell short of analysts' expectations, showing its high-profile cloud business cannot quite make up for a...