Economy

London: Iran formally opened a secondary market for hard currency on Tuesday, abandoning after just three months an effort to dictate a single exchange rate...

Frankfurt: German chemicals group Evonik has started the auction process for its methacrylates plastics unit, which makes clear acrylic sheets, people close...

London: Britain's information regulator slapped Facebook with a small but symbolic fine for breaches of data protection law after millions of users'...

Sydney: Australia is preparing to ban Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from supplying equipment for its planned 5G broadband network after its intelligence...

London: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has raised its offer for Britain's Sky in an agreed deal valuing the pay-TV group at $32.5 billion, seeing...

Beijing/Washington: China accused the United States of bullying and warned it would hit back after the Trump administration raised the stakes in their trade...

Muscat: Oman’s central bank raised OMR61 million by way of allotting treasury bills on Tuesday. The treasury bills are for a maturity period of 28 days,...

Muscat: More than half of the companies surveyed in the Middle East (56 per cent) are unable to analyse all the data they collect and 32 per cent do not...

Muscat: Mimecast, a leading email and data security company, on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Ataata. Ataata is a cyber security training and...

Muscat: Shell Intilaaqah’s evolved edition ‘Aspire and Inspire’, concluded its first training cycle of the year, the Bright Ideas...