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Bloomberg Strikes against French president Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan entered their second month, the longest such action for state-owned railway company SNCF. Transport remained gummed up as unions prepared for two more days of street protests while the government said a compromise was near. Prime minister Edouard Philippe will start another round of discussions with union representatives on Tuesday, ...

Bloomberg Would you give up Facebook for one month in exchange for $50? The question, posed by MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and four co-authors of a new paper, may help economists get a better measure of the extent to which new, free technologies are reshaping the economy and our lives. The answer, unsurprisingly, is a lot. They estimate that the social ...

Bloomberg Beijing Automotive Group Co hopes to sell at least the same amount of vehicles this year as in 2019 as it battles “brutal” competition and a prolonged slowdown in China’s car market. China’s fourth-largest carmaker is targeting up to 2.35 million vehicle sales in 2020, General Manager Zhang Xiyong said at a news conference in the northeastern province of ...

Bloomberg The Chinese trade delegation plans to sign the first phase of its trade deal with the US in Washington on January 15, according to people familiar with the matter. The plan is still to send its top negotiator, vice premier Liu He, to ink the deal, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the private plans. ...

Bloomberg After ousting his protege-turned-foe from the helm of Tata Sons Pvt in a boardroom coup three years ago, Ratan Tata was looking forward to a partial retirement. Instead, he’s fighting the battle all over again — this time in a court. India’s Supreme Court is expected to hear as early as this week an appeal by the $111-billion conglomerate ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister 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 Sunday signed on the final metal part to be fitted into the Hope Probe. The piece ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The seventh EcoWASTE Exhibition and Forum, focussing on the removal and storage of waste, is to be held from 13th-16th January, 2020, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. Guided by the vision of its wise leadership, which spares no efforts to achieve a better tomorrow for communities worldwide, the UAE has set an exemplary model ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), on Sunday announced that it broke its annual volumes and Average Open Interest (AOI), records last year, making 2019 the most successful year since its launch. The exchange traded 23.06 million contracts in 2019 beating its previous record of 22.26 million contracts traded in 2018 with DGCX’s wholly-owned clearing house, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Urban Planning and Transport (DMT), announced that the 10th World Urban Forum (WUF10), the UN-Habitat conference that aims to raise awareness on sustainable urbanisation in cities and liveability across the globe, will be held in Abu Dhabi from February 8-13. To be hosted for the first time in the Arab region, the forum ...

Bloomberg Japan said it would tighten immigration procedures in the wake of Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic escape from the country after skipping bail, and ordered an investigation on how the former Nissan Motor Co chief disappeared. Justice Minister Masako Mori said authorities were “promptly” asked to find out how Ghosn left Japan without detection once she became aware of the incident. ...