Economy

Davos: Chief executives are more optimistic about the economic outlook than they have been for many years although anxieties are rising about geopolitics,...

Tokyo: Nearly three-quarters of Japanese companies expect the economy to keep expanding at least another year, extending an already strong run, although...

Davos: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday revised up its forecast for world economic growth in 2018 and 2019, saying sweeping US tax cuts were...

Muscat: Oman’s economy has achieved a robust 10.1 per cent growth rate at OMR20.33 billion for the first nine months of 2017, mainly driven by a...

Beijing: The United States, not China, threatens the global trade system, China's foreign ministry said on Monday, after US President Donald Trump's...

Tokyo: As trade officials gather in Tokyo this week to try and forge ahead with a trade pact that US President Donald Trump abandoned last year, the new...

London: After a year of relatively healthy global economic growth, economists are predicting pretty much the same for 2018 — a neither too-hot nor...

Muscat: SV Pittie Sohar Textile FZC LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of India-based SVP Global Ventures Ltd, is expected to start work on its $300 million...

Frankfurt: Deutsche Telekom will keep to its promise of hiking dividends in 2018 and the years thereafter, its Chief Financial Officer Thomas Dannenfeldt...

London: Britain's vast financial services industry will suffer far fewer job losses from Brexit than first feared, the City of London's policy chief...