Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates, the largest international airline in the world, on Tuesday announced it will start a daily service between Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh, and Dubai, from 1 October 2018. Edinburgh will become Emirates’ second destination in Scotland after Glasgow and its 8th in the United Kingdom after the airline starts its daily service to London Stansted in ...

Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business In a move to further strengthen ties with the Nordic region, the Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA) on Tuesday announced the opening of their first international representation office in the Nordics, as the Emirate seeks to drive further growth in the number of visitors travelling to Ras Al Khaimah. RAKTDA already has ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Mashreq Bank, the UAE’s leading financial institution, on Tuesday announced that it will enter the non-bank financial institution (NBFI) space in India through an engagement with IL&FS Financial Services Ltd to offer external commercial borrowings (ECB) in Indian Rupees (INR). Through the IL&FS Group, Mashreq will serve the Indian market across various verticals including financial services, ...

Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s agreement to sell out of oil-sands producer Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. brings its $30 billion divestment goal within reach. The Anglo-Dutch company’s Shell Gas BV unit will divest all its shares in Canadian Natural for total pretax proceeds of $3.3 billion, The Hague-based Shell said. The sale serves the dual purpose of shedding one of ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s non-oil revenue climbed 63 percent in the first quarter of 2018, propelled by improved tax collection as part of a drive to reduce the economy’s reliance on income from oil exports. Revenue rose to 52.3 billion riyals ($14 billion), partly due to the introduction of value-added taxation and measures taken over the past two years, including a ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said bringing global oil inventories back to their five-year average isn’t the target of OPEC’s output cuts, and the group is yet to accomplish its goal of stabilising markets. The rolling five-year average of stockpiles is inflated by the glut that’s been around since 2014, Khalid Al-Falih said in Tokyo. The objective of production curbs ...

Bloomberg Britain got a glimpse of its green future as the sun provided more power to households than any other energy source over a rare, sunny holiday weekend. Solar generation rose to 8,728 megawatts, just shy of the record of 8,910 megawatts on May 26 last year. The sun provided 26.9 percent of electricity supply, just beating natural gas, while ...

Bloomberg Sasol Ltd. expects a “volatile environment” for crude oil as geopolitics help sway the market. “It’s going to move back and forth depending on what’s happening in the world — political tensions, supply disruptions,” said Steve Cornell, co-chief executive officer of the South African energy and chemicals company. Market drivers include the much-anticipated US decision on the global nuclear ...

Bloomberg Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. reached an agreement to buy larger rival Shire Plc for about 46 billion pounds ($62 billion) in a deal that transforms it into a top drugmaker in the lucrative business of rare diseases and boosts its heft in the US. The Japanese company capped a drawn-out pursuit by agreeing to pay Shire 49.01 pounds a share ...

Bloomberg When Xiaomi Corp.’s founders were eating millet congee at an office in Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighbourhood in 2010, they decided to create a smartphone brand selling handsets at “honest” prices. Eight years later, Lei Jun and the seven other Xiaomi co-founders have created a company that wants to challenge the global industry dominance of Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. ...