Economy

Muscat: The non-oil sector’s contribution to the economy grew by 4.7 per cent to reach OMR14.1 billion at the end of the three-month period ended...

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...

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

Muscat: Oman's Producer Price Index (PPI)-based inflation eased by 23.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to the same quarter of 2014,...

Muscat: A tender of Government Treasury Bills, issue number 443 was held at the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) this week. The total value of the allotted...

Beijing: China's leaders sound more confident that the world's second-largest economy has arrested a slide in growth to quarter-century lows, but...

Washington: World financial leaders sounded a sour note on the global economy on Thursday, pointing to Britain's possible exit from the European Union...

Beijing: China posted its slowest economic growth since 2009 but a surge of new debt appears to be fueling a recovery in factory activity, investment and...

Washington: A prolonged period of slow growth has left the global economy more exposed to negative shocks and raised the risk that the world will slide into...

Singapore: Growth in developing economies in East Asia is holding up despite tough global conditions and a slowdown in China, according to the World...