Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Financial Group (ADFG) is launching Etihad REIT, a Shariah-compliant real estate investment trust (REIT). The REIT comprises a seed portfolio of 10 income producing assets situated in the UAE. Etihad REIT expects to raise further capital through an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange in the UAE at an appropriate ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad’s team at Abu Dhabi International Airport has welcomed 157 talented Emirati nationals from across the UAE after they graduated from the Etihad UAE National Development Foundation Programme (NDFP). Women make up 107 of the graduates and 50 are men. Within the group, 96 were trainees with Etihad Airport Services (EAS) and 61 trained ...

  Bloomberg Oil advanced for a seventh day in New York, the longest gain since December, on confidence Saudi Arabia will support an extension to OPEC-led output cuts just as US stockpiles show signs of shrinking. Futures in New York were holding gains after rising 6.3 percent in the previous six sessions. Saudi Arabia is likely to back prolonging the ...

  Bloomberg Clean-energy investment fell 17 percent in the first quarter, keeping pace with last year’s decline, as the US and China both scaled back support for wind and solar farms. The $53.6 billion funneled into projects such as renewable energy, efficiency and electric cars during the first three months of the year marked the lowest investment for the quarter ...

  Reuters The world’s top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has stepped up sales of light oil to Asia by offering buyers more cargoes on top of the full contract volumes it will provide for May, industry sources with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. The offers will add to a glut of light oil supplies in Asia, increasing competition ...

  LONDON / REUTERS Royal Dutch Shell was aware that some of the payments it made to Nigeria for rights to an oilfield under a 2011 deal would go to a company associated with former Nigerian oil minister and convicted money launderer Dan Etete, it said in a statement to Reuters. Shell spokesman Andy Norman said the group “always knew” ...

  Bloomberg Anil Agarwal has sealed the merger of his mining and energy businesses in India, creating a BHP Billiton Ltd.-like resources conglomerate, even as a recent investment in Anglo American Plc raises questions about how far the billionaire’s ambitions stretch. Vedanta Ltd. combined with unit Cairn India Ltd and fixed April 27 as the record date for determining the ...

  Bloomberg ‘Short is sweet’ is the mantra at global banks advising investors on India’s sovereign-debt market. Deutsche Bank AG and Standard Chartered Plc are among lenders favoring front-end notes amid bets that a banking system awash with cash will help keep short-term rates in check, even as rising supply and the central bank’s hawkish tone threaten to push up ...

  Bloomberg Not even the cheapest shares in 13 years can lure investors to China’s banks. On a price versus book value basis, Chinese financial firms are trading at the biggest discount since 2004 to both the MSCI China Index and their Asian peers. The stocks have underperformed all but two other industry groups this year. While that’s spurred bullish ...

  Bloomberg China’s producer prices surged again at close to the quickest pace since 2008 last month, though pulled back slightly from February, suggesting the reflationary boon to industrial profits is set to moderate. Producer price index rose 7.6 percent from a year earlier, versus median estimate of 7.5 percent in Bloomberg survey and 7.8 percent increase in February. Consumer ...