Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd denied that one of its flight attendants discriminated against will.i.am after the co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas tweeted his grievances over an incident involving his laptop. The seven-time Grammy winner tweeted that a flight attendant called the police on him for not stowing away his laptop during a flight to Sydney from Brisbane. The artist, …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia put a valuation on state-owned oil giant Aramco of between $1.6 trillion and $1.71 trillion. Aramco will sell 1.5% of its shares on the local stock exchange, the Tadawul. At the lower end of the price range, the offer would fall short of a record, coming in just below the $25 billion raised Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s …

ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates is the sixth largest source of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), inflows to Sri Lanka, and its largest trading partner in the Middle East with bilateral trade representing more than half of the country’s total trade with the region, a top Sri Lankan official told the Emirates News Agency (WAM). There was …

AL AIN / WAM Strata Manufacturing, the advanced composite aero-structures manufacturing facility wholly-owned by Mubadala Investment Company, successfully delivered its first shipset of Empennage Ribs for the 777X, the world’s largest and most efficient twin-engine jet produced by Boeing. The announcement, made during Dubai Airshow 2019, follows the landmark agreement between the two companies signed during Abu Dhabi Global Aerospace …

Bloomberg China’s central bank said it will “increase counter-cyclical adjustment” to ward off downward pressure on the economy, while staying vigilant on the possibility of expectations that inflation may spread. The economy faces greater difficulties as investment growth slows and industrial production remains sluggish, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said in its third-quarter monetary policy report. The central bank …

Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Democratic Republic of Congo agreed in principle to a new credit injection as the government faces slowing growth and declining foreign reserves. The IMF’s executive board is expected to consider the credit facility in mid-December, along with an IMF staff oversight programme that would last through May, the Washington, DC-based lender said in …

Bloomberg KBC Group NV’s chief executive apologised for his criticism of an Irish mortgage overcharging investigation, after his comments drew a public rebuke from the country’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar. Lawmakers from across the political spectrum rounded on Johan Thijs after he urged the Irish central bank to “turn the page” on the “annoying” inquiry into how thousands of customers …

Bloomberg Investigations into money laundering at Danske Bank A/S should be expanded to include the lender’s possible use of gold as a way to help clients in Estonia hide their fortunes, according to Danish lawmakers. “Danske Bank has some explaining to do,” Torsten Schack Pedersen, a Liberal Party member on the parliament committee that oversees financial legislation, said by phone. …

Bloomberg A former Societe Generale SA (SocGen) banker fired over allegations he took secret information on a $10 billion chemical deal and shared it with a friend lost a second bid to get about 430,000 euros ($473,000) in compensation related to his dismissal. The Paris court of appeals rejected the claims by Stephane Fima, who was dismissed in 2016 for …

Bloomberg European Central Bank (ECB) policy maker Madis Muller said the central bank could broadened its asset-purchase programme, if the economic situation in the euro area deteriorates significantly. “Right now, we are doing unconventional things,” he told students at a Bundesbank event in Frankfurt. “You could — of course — imagine even more unconventional things if the situation gets really …