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In the first announcement of a female victor, Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi was elected in the holy city of Makkah, the official SPA news agency reported.

A more disruptive plan came from Eric Jackson, managing director at SpringOwl, an investment firm with a minority share in Yahoo.

In previous articles we discussed why rate hike from FED is still crucial, despite it being well priced in, beginning of a mega unwinding of monetary stimulus, our take on U.S. rates via term premia and impact on equities. It experimented with unconventional ways to stimulate the...

Here’s what you need to know about how the Fed’s action will affect you.

The 20 women who have won are from 10 different regions, even as results in several more regions are yet to be announced.

Yahoo is facing pressure from investor groups against giving CEO Marissa Mayer more time to show progress on the company’s turnaround, reports the Wall Street Journal.

South African President Jacob Zuma appointed Rooyen after firing the previous finance minister, Nhlanhla Nene, who had held the post for about 18 months.

State-affiliated websites and independent news agencies indicate Saudi Arabians may have elected as many as 17 women, but no final tally has been announced. More importantly, female voters represented 42 per cent of the electorate, which by itself suggests there is a high level...

But for all the doomsday scenarios rattling the financial markets, the impact of a one-quarter percent increase in the so-called fed funds rate – the interest rate banks charge each other for overnight loans – will likely cause barely a ripple in the USA economy....

The deal announced Friday is being billed a merger of equals, to be called DowDuPont.

And she has cited the labor market’s cumulative progress in recent years, with the unemployment rate down to 5% from 10% in 2009, and employers adding an average of more than 200,000 jobs a month in 2015.

The rand recovered to 15.09 rand from 15.89 rand against the USA dollar immediately after the news broke late Sunday night.

– Revert to the old logo and bring back the iconic old Yahoo billboard on Route 101 into San Francisco “to send a message that the era of Marissa Mayer is now over”.

“We are relentlessly searching for those responsible for what happened and you may rest assured we will bring these persons to account”, said Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch at a news conference in Germany.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has decided against cutting its oil output to lift prices, its president and Nigerian oil minister of state Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said following a meeting in Vienna yesterday.