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5,000 jobs for UAE nationals in banking, insurance sectors

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), chaired the meeting of the board, held on Wednesday in Qasr Al Watan. Sheikh Mansour welcomed the meeting’s participants and thanked the Central Bank of the UAE ...

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Abu Dhabi, Israel explore potential partnership, growth prospects

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the leading international financial centre, on Wednesday hosted a delegation of high-profile business leaders from Israel, as the two countries continue to explore bilateral growth and investments opportunities. The forum was hosted as part of Abu Dhabi’s long-term economic commitment to attract and retain new businesses and investors to its hub, ...

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Yahsat revenue reaches AED452.7m in 2021

  ABU DHABI / WAM Al Yah Satellite Communications Company, the UAE’s flagship satellite solutions provider, has announced its financial results for the 12 months period ended on December 31, 2021. It reported revenues of AED452.7 million [$123.3 million], exceeding the prior year by 7.9 percent, leading to full-year revenue of just under AED1.50 billion [$408 million], marginally up year-on-year. ...

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Petronas returns to profit on oil, plans clean energy unit

  Bloomberg Malaysia’s state oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd. swung to profit in the final three months of 2021, due to a smaller impairment loss, higher earnings and elevated crude oil prices. Petronas posted net income of 13.4 billion ringgit ($3.2 billion) in the December quarter, versus a 1.1 billion ringgit loss a year earlier, the company said. Revenue climbed ...

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Russia’s Gazprom is in process of paying its dollar bonds

  Bloomberg Gazprom PJSC, the Russian state-controlled energy giant, is already in the process of settling a $1.3 billion debt due on Monday. The company wired the cash to the settlement bank, which will probably release the funds on March 4, a person familiar with the matter said, declining to be identified because the information is private. Gazprom also has ...

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Putin has unleashed a new age of nuclear proliferation

There are many ways in which Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the world a more dangerous, brutish and frightening place. One is by raising the potential for nuclear Armageddon. Two scenarios stand out. The first involves the short term; the other, the long. In the short term, we’re all hoping his latest nuclear threat is just a bluff. During ...

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Is Nike the next luxury fashion house?

Nike Inc is so on trend right now. By making its hottest sneakers harder to find, it’s on its way to becoming more a top-end name, like Gucci or Louis Vuitton, than a mainstream product. That’s of immense value to both the sportswear giant’s brand equity and its profits. And with American luxury on a tear, it’s a strategy the ...

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Unions haven’t kept up with new economy

  Something still feels broken in the labour market. There are many jobs and wages are up. But there is also a sense of uncertainty and misery. Service jobs can be grueling, and despite recent growth, people’s wages over the course of their careers aren’t increasing as fast as they once did — especially when you account for inflation. And ...

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Nobody wants Russian assets for ‘few options’

  A common problem in environmental, social and governance investing is that if you own stock in a coal company, and you care about ESG, so you sell that coal company stock, you are sort of by definition selling it to someone who does not care as much about ESG. And then what? It is fairly straightforward to say “I ...

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Target gets top post-earnings pop since 2020 on forecast

Bloomberg Target Corp soared after unveiling a forecast for new profit gains on top of the pandemic-related boom that has already sparked robust growth. Operating profit will post a percentage increase in the low single digits this year, the retailer said, bucking Wall Street’s expectations that the closely watched number would decline. Target also predicted steady financial gains beyond 2022 ...

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