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Bloomberg The European Union unveiled its long-term vision on combating climate change in a push for more ambitious action on the environment just days after US President Donald Trump rejected his government’s warning on the economic costs of global warming. The 28-nation bloc, responsible for 10 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions, set a 2050 perspective to help give direction to ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s threat to cut subsidies to General Motors Co in retaliation for the automaker’s plan to close US factories was met with immediate skepticism. While it’s true that GM, like other US automakers, has received substantial federal assistance over the years — including a nearly $50 billion bailout in 2009 — experts cast doubt on the idea ...

Bloomberg BMW AG will keep spreading the gospel of free trade and back its rhetoric up by investing more in its massive US plant, all as the Trump administration mulls higher tariffs on imported autos. The German automaker is presenting two SUVs at the Los Angeles auto show this week: a refreshed X5 crossover and a new three-row model, the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Ministry of Finance and the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance have signed an agreement for the financing of Stage Two of the Etihad Rail national rail network. The second stage will extend 605 kilometres from Ghuweifat on the border with Saudi Arabia to Fujairah on the east coast, to be followed by future route ...

Abu Dhabi / 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 launch of seven national strategies that promote the development model ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has been named ‘Financial Centre of the Year – Mena’ for a third year in a row by Global Investor magazine. The accolade, presented at the annual Mena Capital Markets Summit Awards in Dubai, is a testament to ADGM’s achievements and innovations across all three of its authorities – the Financial ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), continues its commitment to support Dubai’s vision for leadership in energy security and efficiency through its energy diversification initiatives. In line with the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy’s aim of generating 75 percent of its energy consumption from clean sources by 2050, the DWTC is championing a range of resource and energy optimisation ...

Bloomberg As South Africa’s ruling party battles to bounce back from a succession of scandals and extend its quarter-century monopoly on power in next year’s elections, it has a key advantage: a wounded opposition. By forcing the unpopular Jacob Zuma to stand down as president in February, the African National Congress deprived the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Economic Freedom Fighters ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he’ll likely push forward with plans to increase tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, indicating he would also slap duties on all remaining imports from the Asian nation if negotiations with China’s leader Xi Jinping fail to produce a trade deal. Trump, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Monday, said ...

Bloomberg Wu Yajun’s transfer of a $7 billion stake to her daughter caps the property developer’s comeback after a 2012 divorce robbed her of the title of China’s richest woman. It also marks the distance that billionaire Wu has come since quitting an “iron rice bowl” job in 1988. Her property empire Longfor Group Holding Ltd. has almost doubled in ...