Business

Muscat: Bank Muscat, the leading financial institution in the Sultanate, and Majid Al Futtaim Properties signed a term finance agreement for the Mall of...

New York: The days of Twitter Inc. limiting messages to 140 characters, a signature of the social network since its launch in 2006, may be numbered. Twitter...

Khobar (Saudi Arabia): State oil giant Saudi Aramco is expected to finish building facilities soon in the north of the kingdom that will allow it to...

London: The European Union's London-based banking watchdog has lost nearly a tenth of its staff in just two months as fewer people apply for jobs and...

Ottawa: The United States on Tuesday unveiled draft text on labour standards during the negotiations on modernising the North American Free Trade Agreement...

London: Uber is expected to tell a British employment appeal tribunal on Wednesday that its drivers are self-employed and not workers entitled to a range of...

Washington: US consumer confidence fell in September and home sales dropped to an eight-month low in August due to the impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma,...

Cleveland: The Federal Reserve needs to continue gradual rate hikes despite broad uncertainty about the path of inflation, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on...

New Delhi: India has been ranked as the 40th most competitive economy — slipping one place from last year's ranking — on the World Economic...

Munich/Paris: German industrial group Siemens and French rival Alstom agreed to merge their rail operations, creating a European champion to better...