World Business

WASHINGTON: Ohio could end the year with a notable record: fewest new unemployment-claim filings. So far this year, 364,762 claims...

WASHINGTON: The Customs Department has begun operating a new clearance system in the arrival hall at Owen Roberts International Airport...

WASHINGTON: Argentina's unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 percent in the third quarter of the year, the government's Indec statistics agency...

BOGOTA: Colombia's central bank held its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Friday for a fourth month to quell inflation even...

WASHINGTON: Storage revenues for Rubis Terminal have increased by 1.6% as the company looks to expand capacity at Rotterdam. In...

WASHINGTON: Agri-services group Origin Enterprises has reported an 11 per cent increase in revenue to €333.6 million for the three...

WASHINGTON: The Turkmen Parliament adopted a law on the 2017- state budget, the Turkmen government reported on November 24. In...

NAIROBI: Kenya continues to import large quantities of its major crops to make up for national output shortfalls despite growth...

HARARE: Capacity utilisation in the manufacturing sector has risen by 13,1 percentage points to 47,4 percent, buoyed by an import...

ABUJA: Nigeria spent N958.3 billion importing Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, in five months. The amount could...

YEREVAN: The World Bank forecasts that Armenia's GDP growth rate may reach 3.1 percent in 2016, supported by rising external...

WASHINGTON: Local exporters are expected to access more credit after the Rwanda’s Export growth facility received a financial support amounting...

BEIRUT: Industrial exports dropped by 15.7 percent in the first nine months of 2016 compared to the same period last...

WASHINGTON: There were 256,153 mobile phone handsets and other consumer mobile devices worth USD 24.407 million imported to Azerbaijan in...

MANILA: The Bureau of Customs said Friday it would ensure justice for deputy commissioner Arturo Lachica, who was killed in...

WASHINGTON: linois' unemployment rate inched up to 5.6 percent in October, and employers added more than 2,200 jobs to their...

DOHA: Demand for natural gas will grow in 2017 but at a slower rate than in recent years, Qatar's energy...

WASHINGTON: The Chilean cherry industry may have run into some problems this season with rail and hail, but improved weather...

ARGENTINA: Argentina is one the world’s major dairy exporting regions but its milk production has declined significantly during 2016, according...

ALGIERS: Algeria's import bill of sugar (beet sugar, cane sugar, lactose syrup and solid lactose) totalled US$649.34 million during the...