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Muscat: Oman’s benchmark MSM30 Index declined 0.34 per cent to close the session at 5,207.73 points. The MSM Sharia Index ended at 757.19 points, down...

Moscow: Oil producer group Opec is looking at extending or deepening a supply-cutting deal with non-member countries, two Opec ministers said on Wednesday,...

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday lowered to 6.7 per cent the economic growth projection for 2017-18 from its August forecast of 7.3 per...

Johannesburg: The African arm of Germany's Munich Re has dropped KPMG as its auditor, the latest company to distance itself from the accountancy firm...

Sydney: Miner and commodities trader Glencore has agreed to buy a further stake worth at least $531 million in Peru's largest zinc miner, Volcan...

San Francisco: Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the...

San Francisco: Uber Technologies Inc's fractured board declared peace on Tuesday, attempting to put months of strife behind it by unanimously passing a...

United Nations: Top Indian economist Arvind Panagariya has told the United Nations that the world export market worth nearly $22 trillion is extremely large...

New York: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought a major stake in Pilot Flying J, the largest US truck stop operator, and said it will become the...

Strasbourg: The European Union agreed new rules on Tuesday to guard against excessively cheap Chinese imports, ending 18 months of wrangling over trade ties...