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ABU DHABI / WAM Adnoc Distribution has reported that net profit for the six months ended June 30, increased by 18 percent to AED1,124 million compared with the same period last year. According to a press statement, EBITDA grew by 30 percent to AED1,443 million, and gross profit rose by 24 percent to AED2,609 million. Free cash-flow generation was up ...

Ras Al Khaimah / WAM The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) has officially launched phase one of its “Tax Clinic” initiative, which seeks to maintain direct and constant communication with taxable businesses. For three months, the campaign will cover all seven emirates to raise tax awareness across the country, urging taxable businesses to register with the Authority and promoting compliance with ...

Munich / Emirates Business The BMW Group invested substantially in the mobility of the future during the first half of the year, while at the same time firmly continuing on its course of profitable growth. Rigorous implementation of the Group’s Strategy. The BMW Group has also set a decisive course for its future in China, the company’s largest growth market. ...

Bloomberg Europe’s equity market may finally be getting a hand from the force that has supercharged the US stock rally since the global financial crisis: share buybacks. European companies have unveiled blockbuster repurchase programmes this earnings season as their cash piles swell amid a continued recovery in profits. In non-UK Europe, net equity issuance has turned negative for the first ...

Bloomberg Suspended Audi Chief Executive Officer Rupert Stadler lost a bid to end his detention in jail, with a German court saying that there is strong evidence that he turned a blind eye to the corporate shenanigans at the heart of the car company’s global diesel scandal. Stadler’s bid to be released from jail after more than seven weeks was ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in agreed to hold their third meeting this year, as they seek to preserve a detente tested by disputes between Pyongyang and Washington. The two Koreas announced plans on Monday for Moon to visit the North Korean capital next month, the first such trip since 2007. A joint statement issued ...

Bloomberg Speculation about who may or may not finance Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk’s audacious plan to take the carmaker private is distracting dealmakers from a normally quiet August spent in the Hamptons or Southern France. As the intrigue enters a second week, with pressure increasing on the billionaire founder to explain how a deal would be funded, one of ...

Bloomberg Nikon and Canon face a threat at the top end of the market Eight seconds. That’s how long a cowboy needs to stay on a bucking bronco to qualify for a rodeo score. For photographers, that’s barely enough time to take just a few blurry, often unusable pictures. “In the past, these images would have been made by pre-focusing ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has launched the UAE Youth Global Initiative to help Emirati youth unleash their full potential to enhance the country’s reputation and spread awareness of its values, heritage and all-embracing development drive. This came during ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), on Sunday observed the International Youth Day across its headquarters and all operating companies. During the celebrations, which were organised by the Group’s various youth committees, Adnoc’s young talent focussed on the contributions they have made to the business to enable enhanced performance, profitability and efficiency, as well as ...