World Business

WASHINGTON: Indiana’s unemployment rate rose for the second straight month in April, while Illinois’ increased for the sixth straight month....

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Ministry of Finance and National Economy said the average inflation rate has declined to 12, 4% in the...

WASHINGTON: Rapeseed exports of Bulgaria in 2016 (July-April) amounted to 294.3 KMT. The EU countries are the main importers. They...

CALIFORNIA: Salesforce.com reported fiscal 2016 first quarter results on May 18. The global leader in customer relationship management software delivered...

NAIROBI: Fruits like oranges, grapes and apples are being bought from Kenya's neighbouring countries, especially Tanzania, creating stiff competition for...

LONDON: Royal mail has said full-year pre-tax profits fell 33 per cent to £267million as it took a hit from...

SYDNEY: Papua New Guinea (PNG) explorer Oil Search Ltd yesterday said it had bought rival InterOil Corp in a multibillion-dollar...

WASHINGTON: Illinois' unemployment rate ticked up to 6.6 percent in April as more people continued to join the labor force...

RABAT: Morocco's annual consumer price inflation slowed to 1.6 percent in April from 1.8 percent in March as food prices...

HARARE: Zimbabwe's cement producers want the government to impose tariffs on imports, including from Nigeria's Dangote Cement, saying this would...

WASHINGTON: Catching many investors off guard, the United States Federal Reserve has made clear that an interest rate hike next...

TLANTA: State labor officials say Georgia's jobless rate is holding steady at 5.5 percent. The Georgia Department of Labor on...

WASHINGTON: Michigan added 6,000 new jobs in April and the state's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.8% as the state's...

WASHINGTON: In February 2016 wheat exports from Romania continued to increase and were the second largest for this month equaling...

PHNOM PENH: Agencies in Cambodia announced on Wednesday that the country's rice exports have increased more than fivefold over the...

MOSCOW: Gazprom’s natural gas export to non-CIS countries surged 17.9% year-on-year from January 1 to May 15, 2016, Chief Executive...

WASHINGTON: Chile imported 2.884 million mt of coal in the first three months of the year, up 71.2% from the...

BEIJING: Alipay, China’s biggest third-party payments system, faces a setback in its push to expand overseas as the nation’s central...

SHENZHEN: Tencent said its first-quarter net profit rose 33 percent year on year to a record 9.2 billion yuan (US$1.4...

WASHINGTON: The cargo customs entries registered gas export in Azerbaijan for $100.328 million for Jan-Apr 2016 versus $107.025 million for...