India is close to inking a defense deal with the U.S. for the procurement of Sea Guardian armed drones and P-8I anti-submarine warfare and surveillance aircraft....
Saudi Arabia's Aramco is planning to sell a 1.5 percent stake in an initial public offering, placing the value of the oil giant of $1.6 trillion to $1.7 trillion....
Barrick Gold Corporation announced it has reached an agreement to sell its 50 percent interest in Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines ("KCGM") in Western Australia to Saracen Mineral Holdings Limited (“Saracen”) for a total consideration of $750 million in cash....
The Sub-Saharan economies are expected to boom in the next years, with the regional GDP is projected to reach $2.4 trillion by 2023, an analysis from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry showed, according to the Emirates News Agency (WAM)....
The EU member countries' antibiotics imports from the non-EU countries in 2018 were €2.87 billion ($3.38 billion) while extra-EU antibiotics exports were €1.8 billion ($2.12 billion)....
The headline index from the survey, the seasonally adjusted IHS Markit UK Household Finance Index (HFI) which measures households’ overall perceptions of financial wellbeing recorded 44.4 in November, which is unchanged from October and the joint-highest since January....
The deadly chemical plant blast in eastern China's Jiangsu Province on March 21 has been identified as an extremely severe production safety accident caused by prolonged illegal custody of hazardous chemical waste, according to the State Council investigation group on the case....
Tata Steel will cut as many as 3,000 jobs across its European business to come to terms with a “severe” international steel market, but added there would be no plant closures....
Gazprom sent Naftogaz Ukrainy an official proposal endorsed by head Alexei Miller on the extension of the existing contract or conclusion of a new agreement on gas transit via the Ukrainian territory for a period of one year in light of forecast demand for gas by European consumers in 2020....
The travel and tourism industry as measured by the real output of goods and services sold directly to visitors increased 4.2 percent in 2018, according to the most recent statistics from the Travel and Tourism Satellite Account (TTSA) published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)....
The Cabinet in India gave its approval to the Food Ministry's recent decision to import 1.2 lakh tonnes of onions in a bid to improve the domestic availability of the key kitchen staple and check prices....
PayPal Holdings announced that it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, a rapidly-growing technology platform for shopping and rewards, for approximately $4 billion....
The operator of New York state’s last active coal-fired power plant, located north of Buffalo in Somerset, filed with state utility regulators for permission to shut as soon as February 15, saying it wants to build a data center at the site.... ■