Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings agreed to buy an Austrian airline from former Formula One motor-racing champion Niki Lauda, only the second acquisition in the Irish carrier’s history. The low-cost giant will pay Lauda less than $61.7 million for a majority stake in LaudaMotion, which retook control of carrier Niki just two months ago following the insolvency of Air Berlin. The aviation ...

Bloomberg British retailer John Lewis Partnership Plc is opening its 50th department store in London amid a spate of retail restructurings and outright collapses. In a bid to draw in shoppers, it’s doubling down on everything it says Amazon.com Inc. can’t do. The employee-owned retailer wants to build more personalised relationships with its customers through concierge-style services and educational sessions ...

Bloomberg Energy-related companies led a rise in US stocks as equity markets looked to shrug off weakness in technology. Government bond yields increased as investors braced for higher US borrowing rates. Oil climbed to a two-week high as output curbs by OPEC and its allies continued to deplete the remnants of a global supply surplus, helping to lift the shares ...

Reuters The region’s biggest market, Saudi Arabia, was up 0.2 percent with financial stocks among the largest gainers ahead of an expected decision by FTSE at the end of this month to include Riyadh in its secondary emerging market index. Al Rajhi Bank, the kingdom’s second largest bank by assets, rose 1.7 percent, while Saudi British Bank was up 2.3 ...

Bloomberg During the equity rout, investors were not only back to betting on volatility’s return, they were doing so using a leveraged security from the firm at the nexus of last month’s stock selloff. As a jump in the VIX spurred activity across volatility-related securities, the exchange-traded product that had the highest volume was the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Tuesday attended the announcement of a joint venture between Aldar Properties and Emaar ...

DUBAI / Reuters The United Arab Emirates is asking Washington to exempt it from new US tariffs on aluminium and steel and believes it has a strong case, a senior government official said on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump is pressing ahead with imposing import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminium, but has already exempted ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Saif Mohammed Al Hajeri, the Chairman of the Department of Economic Development — Abu Dhabi, and Park Kang-Ho, Ambassador of South Korea to the UAE, discussed with him ways to create more investment opportunities in a number of economic sectors related to advanced knowledge and technology. During the meeting, they hashed out the development of economic ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The financial facilities offered by national banks to the government and public and private sectors stood at AED11.8 billion in January, boosted by increasing dynamic economic performance and activities, according to figures released by Central Bank. Figures showed accumulated balance of financing by national banks reached AED1.3 trillion. A preliminary reading of the facilities flow index ...

DUBAI / WAM Mashreq Bank on Tuesday announced its partnership with Alipay, an online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group. The first-of-its-kind association with Alipay, enables Chinese customers carry out payments at merchant outlets using their Alipay digital wallets. The move reaffirms Mashreq’s position as a leader in digital payments and innovation in the UAE. Alipay ...