World Business

WASHINGTON: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the San Luis port of entry arrested a U.S. citizen on...

LONDON: The 2016 State of the Satellite Industry Report, produced by the Satellite Industry Association (SIA), shows a solid, steady...

WASHINGTON: Handset-use flexible PCB (FPCB) and keypad maker Ichia Technologies has announced consolidated revenues of NT$513 million (US$15.7 million) for...

LONDON: Those who keep a close eye on Memphis area unemployment figures might have thought its rate couldn't continue to...

RALEIGH: Unemployment rates (not seasonally adjusted) decreased in 95 of North Carolina’s counties in April including Cabarrus County. Unemployment rates...

WASHINGTON: Georgia’s annual inflation slowed to 2.1% in May from 3.2% in April, the state statistics office, Geostat, said on...

WASHINGTON: Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week. The third straight drop is seen as a sign that the...

RIYADH: Uber Technologies Inc said it received its biggest investment to date, raising US$3.5 billion from the Public Investment Fund...

NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs Group Inc cut investment banking jobs in the past few weeks, joining securities firms that are...

VIENNA: Venezuela is going to increase its oil production by 7.14 percent up to 3 million barrels per day, Venezuela’s...

NEW YORK: The world’s food-import bill is set to tumble to a seven-year low in 2016 as a decline in...

LONDON: Virginia’s tourism revenues reached $23 billion in 2015, which is a 2.3 percent increase over 2014, according to a...

WASHINGTON: Global consumption of cotton declined by 3 per cent to 23.6 million tons in 2015-16, and it is likely...

BOGOTÁ: Colombia will need about $7 billion in annual investment over the next 10 years to bolster oil exploration and...

NAIROBI: The Kenyan government has imported 5,000 tons of sugar in order to mitigate the fall in price of the...

ABUJA: Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)’s revenue generation has dropped, as volume of imports continue to fall at the nation’s seaports...

SAN FRANCISCO: GoogleInc is seeking to raise between US$218 million and US$221 million by selling shares in personal computer maker...

TOKYO: Softbank Group Corp said it would sell at least US$7.9 billion of its shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd...

WASHINGTON: Pennsylvania companies exported fewer goods to eight of the commonwealth's top 10 global markets in the first quarter, leading...

ABUJA: Nigeria has recorded negative trade balance, while the value of total exports and imports have fallen by N793.5billion or...