World Business

GEORGETOWN: At least half the customs officers at the main airport in Guyana have been placed on administrative leave following...

ABIDJAN: Cotton exports from Ivory Coast totaled 97,470 tonnes to the end of February, up more than 15 percent from...

NORTH CALIFORNIA: Open source is big business. To quantify and define “big business,” how about I throw out a number...

NEW YORK: Accenture Plc raised its full-year net revenue forecast well above analysts' expectations and reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and...

MEXICO CITY: Overall, 148 bids were submitted for 128 tracts in the Central Planning Area. BOEM had offered tracts in...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Customs Service has admitted an exemption in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 allows medical cannabis to...

BENGALURU: The labour-intensive cashew industry is crying foul over the budget for fiscal 2016-17 imposing five percent customs duty, four...

WASHINGTON: Emirates National Oil Company (Enoc), the Dubai state-owned energy firm, expects annual revenue to fall again this year, weighed...

WASHINGTON: Arizona taxable sales topped $100 billion for the first time in 2015, according to new data from the Arizona...

WASHINGTON: Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, has registered revenue growth of 12 per cent over...

ABUJA: Nigeria Customs Service has re-introduced the restriction order on importation of rice through land borders across the country. Comptroller-General...

LONDON: EU - Agri-food exports from the EU rose to €9.3 billion in January, a tiny amount above January levels...

LONDON: IG Group , the British online share trading company, has reported an 18% rise in third-quarter revenue as traders...

HARARE: The value of the country's exports declined 13,05 percent in the two months to February due to weaknesses in...

ABUJA: Nigeria spent N1.239 trillion on importation of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol in 2015, National Bureau...

LONDON: Bahrain's statistics office released the following February consumer price data on Monday, showing inflation at its highest level sine...

WASHINGTON: Placer County was the regional leader in employment in February. The county’s 4.6 percent jobless rate was the lowest...

ABUJA: The Federal Government of Nigeria exported a total of 328, 897 million barrels of crude oil in the last...

WASHINGTON: Import duty revenue for last month had increased by 11 percent from last year February, statistics show. According to...

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s raw milk production  for the month of January 2016 has surged 17 percent compared to the first month...