World Business

CARACAS: The price Venezuela receives for its mix of medium and heavy oil fell back below $40 as markets and...

BEIJING: Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud), a subsidiary of e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group, is forecast to record revenue of nearly US$9 billion...

JERUSALEM: A consortium led by US firm Noble Energy Inc has approved a US$265 million project to sink a new...

NEW DELHI: India will soon remove Cyprus from its tax blacklist as a non-cooperative jurisdiction for income tax purposes, local...

WASHINGTON: Along with wheat flour export growth, Kazakhstan increases wheat bran exports. In April of 2016 Kazakhstan exported 24.4 KMT...

WASHINGTON: Costa Rica's economy picked up in the first quarter, helped by a boost in exports and domestic consumption, the...

TEGUCIGALPA: Coffee exports from Honduras plunged 18.5 percent in June compared with the period last year, national coffee institute IHCAFE...

MEXICO: The Banco de Mexico on Thursday raised its key interest rate by half a point to contain inflation and...

PARIS: Google pays taxes in every country where it has a presence, the multinational tech giant's Europe vice president Carlo...

WASHINGTON: Major global banks’ elimination of correspondent banking relationships (CBR) could threaten growth and financial stability in some small countries,...

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc is exploring the purchase of rival music streaming service Tidal, which is run by rap star...

BUCAREST: Romania's unemployment rate rose to 6.6% in May, from 6.4% in April, the national statistics office (INS) said on...

WASHINGTON: Austria’s trade of goods revived in 2015, Statistik Austria reports today, presenting final figures for the last year. Exports...

BOISE: Micron shares dropped more than 9 percent in extended trading after the semiconductor company posted lower-than-expected quarterly sales and...

RIGA: The Freeport of Riga in the Latvian capital generated 53.5 million euros (59.1 million U.S. dollars) in operating revenue...

RIO DE JANEIRO: A total of 11.2 percent of Brazilian's active working population, or around 11.4 million people, are out...

TOKYO: Japan's industrial output slid in May at the fastest rate in three months to its lowest level since June...

LONDON: Unemployment in Northwest Indiana dropped steeply in May, the most recent month for which data is available. The seasonally...

WASHINGTON: The Pittsburgh-area’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate fell to 5.7 percent in May, down from 5.9 percent in April, according...

HARARE: Zimbabwe has earned $253,67 million from 45,1 million kilogrammes of tobacco exported mainly to China and SA since the...