Bloomberg Boris Johnson took aim at his own government’s tariffs on imports of food that is not produced domestically, saying their removal could ease the UK’s cost-of-living crisis. But even his officials say otherwise. “Why do we have a tariff of 93 pence a kilo on Turkish olive oil?†Johnson said at a speech in Blackpool, northern England, days ...
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France says economy will grow this year
Bloomberg The French economy will grow this year despite soaring inflation and uncertainty over the war in Ukraine, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said. The minister declined to give an estimate, saying he would update country’s growth forecast once a revised budget bill is presented following the legislative elections later this month. “It was 4%, it’s obvious that with ...
Read More »Fertilisers piling up at Brazil ports signal further price drop
Bloomberg A glut of fertilisers at the biggest Brazilian ports signals that the price of the nutrients may have to drop further before farmers start buying. In Paranagua, private warehouses reached their maximum storage capacity of 3.5 million tons, according to Luiz Teixeira da Silva, Paranagua’s operations director. A terminal operated by VLI Logistics, one of the two at ...
Read More »Germany, UAE joint investments can tackle climate change: Envoy
Dubai / WAM Germany and the UAE as strong economic partners will continue “the old-fashioned trade,” but they have an opportunity to make joint investments in new technologies and businesses of the “new economy” that will help achieve their net-zero targets, a top German diplomat told the Emirates News Agency (WAM). “We have very good economic relations. But there’s ...
Read More »ADQ buys leading Turkish pharmaceutical firm BMG
Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company, on Monday announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Birgi Mefar Group (BMG), one of Turkey’s leading producers of sterile injectable products. As a full-service pharmaceutical CDMO, BMG is a production service provider for sterile injectable products, namely vials and pre-filled syringes used ...
Read More »Borouge included in FTSE Global Equity Index Series
Abu Dhabi / WAM Borouge, a leading petrochemical company that provides innovative and differentiated polyolefin solutions, has been included in FTSE Russell’s FTSE Global Equity Index Series which includes three world-renowned indices – FTSE Emerging Index, FTSE Global Large Cap Index and FTSE All-World Index – as of June 10. FTSE Russell’s indices are used by investors globally to ...
Read More »Tenders worth $6 billion awarded in Kuwait in ’21
Kuwait/ WAM The Central Agency for Public Tenders of Kuwait (CAPT) has stated that the agency awarded 235 tenders worth $5.9 billion in 2021. Secretary-General of CAPT Usama Al-Duaij told Kuna that number of awarded tenders has been mounting on an annual basis, however, the total sum of offers reached, in 2020, only 98 ones, worth approx $1 billion, ...
Read More »Dubai Chamber members’ exports, re-exports hit AED23.1bn in May
Dubai / WAM The value of exports and re-exports of Dubai Chamber members grew 28.3% year-on-year (YoY) to reach AED23.1 billion in May 2022, marking the highest level since August 2018. Members’ exports and re-exports amounted to AED104.3 billion between January and May, achieving 15.8 percent YoY growth when compared to the same period last year. Over 291,000 certificates ...
Read More »Production at Abu Dhabi’s RO facility reaches 50%
ABU DHABI / WAM Ewec, the Emirates Water and Electricity Company, has announced that production of desalinated water using low carbon-intensive reverse osmosis (RO) technology from the Taweelah RO facility has reached 50 percent capacity. Taweelah RO, connected to the Abu Dhabi network in December 2021, is now providing 100 million gallons per day of desalinated water, and will ...
Read More »DFM unveils new equity futures on individual stocks
Dubai / WAM As part of its strategy to diversify investment opportunities, the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) on Monday launched new equity futures contracts on individual stocks of two of its leading listed companies namely; Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and GFH Financial group. The new launch brings the number of companies that the DFM provides futures’ contracts on ...
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