World Business

BUCHAREST: Gas imports will be roughly 20 percent cheaper than Romanian stored domestic gas prices this winter, meaning the European...

SAN FRANCISCO: Computer software giant Microsoft Corporation announced on Monday that it will acquire business-oriented social networking service LinkedIn Corporation...

KHARTOUM: Sudan's inflation rate jumped to 13.98 percent in May compared to 12.85 percent in April, an official report said...

NEW YORK: Internet ad revenues in the US reached a record-breaking $15.9bn in the first quarter of 2016, surpassing last...

KHARTOUM: Sudan's annual inflation rate rose to 13.98 percent in May from 12.85 percent in April, on the back of...

HOUSTON: Citgo Aruba said it would invest US$450 million to US$650 million to reactivate an oil refinery in Aruba that...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia exported 28,953 tons of dry rubber in the first quarter of 2016, down 8 percent from 31,476...

TEHRAN: New model oil contracts, designed to lure billions of US dollars in foreign investment for the energy industry, still...

WASHINGTON: The unexpected downturn in the US jobs market has once again removed an interest-rate hike from the table as...

BARCELONA: The globalization of the world’s economy this century has made it far more vulnerable to the impacts of extreme...

KINGSTON: The Jamaica Customs Agency’s Contraband Enforcement Team (CET) says it has seized more than 600 pounds of marijuana with...

FRANKFORT: Kentucky tax revenues that showed solid growth through the first 10 months of this fiscal year plunged in May,...

WASHINGTON: Alberta has lost more than 20,000 jobs for the second month is a row. New numbers released by Statistics...

SKOPJE: The growth rate of the gross domestic product (GDP) in Macedonia in the first quarter of 2016 was 2...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia imported 302,776 tons of petroleum in the first quarter of 2016, down 30 percent from 434,288 tons...

CHICAGO: Export sales of U.S. corn to be shipped ahead of the fall harvest have topped last year's pace for...

WASHINGTON: Some 2.6 million Filipinos remained jobless but employment registered a slight improvement compared to last year, the National Economic...

WASHINGTON: Coffee exports from Costa Rica rose 14.6 percent in April compared to the same month last year, the country's...

RABAT: Morocco will raise the custom duty on soft wheat imports to 65 percent from 30 percent from June 15...

WASHINGTON: The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has lamented that Nigeria imports milk worth over $1.3...