Business

San Francisco: Facebook built a colossal business based on measuring something older advertising methods cannot: the granular details about people. Two...

Atlanta: Jeffrey Lacker, one of the Federal Reserve’s most hawkish policy makers, warned that the US central bank may have to raise rates more than three...

Washington: US home-building fell more than expected in November, tumbling from a nine-year high as construction activity declined broadly, the latest sign...

Muscat: Oman Development Bank (ODB), the Sultanate’s leading bank in sustainable development project financing, approved as many as 4,444 development...

Frankfurt: Deutsche Lufthansa and Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi agreed to share seat sales in the first step of what could be deeper cooperation between the...

Muscat: Sayyid Hamoud bin Faisal Al Busaidy, Minister of Interior, on Thursday met with the head and members of the main committee for municipal councils’...

Tokyo: Asian economies including China, Hong Kong and Japan have become more vulnerable to financial shocks since the 2008 global crisis and are now among...

Muscat: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos on Thursday in Manah received credential papers of US Ambassador Marc J Sievers to Sultanate. During the meeting,...

London: The Dollar surged to its highest levels in 14 years on Thursday, after the Federal Reserve hinted that U.S. interest rates could rise faster in 2017...

Muscat: Oman and Tunisia signed an agreement on exemption from visa by both the countries for holders of diplomatic, special and service passports. The...