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  Dubai / Gulf Time A leader in UAE mattress market Future Mattress, has announced its plans to capture 20% market share in the mattress sector in the UAE. This was revealed by Muhammad Adil Mirza, CEO, Phoenix Medicines LLC and Future Mattress at recently organized Iftar dinner organised by his group in a leading Dubai hotel, adding that his ...

  Dubai / WAM The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian & Charity Establishment (MBRCH) has increased its donation to the 1 Billion Meals initiative, the region’s largest campaign for providing food support to the disadvantaged and underprivileged in 50 nations around the world, to AED31 million. They contributed an additional AED11 million on top of the AED20 million they ...

  Sharjah / WAM After a successful debut last year, Expo Centre Sharjah has announced that it will host the second edition of the ‘HIVE Furniture’ Show, the region’s first dedicated event focusing on big box retailers and wholesale traders, from June 13 to 16. The announcement was made on the sidelines of a signing ceremony between Saif Mohammed Al ...

  Bloomberg Germany will increase borrowing plans by nearly 40 billion euros ($43 billion) this year to cushion the effect of the war in Ukraine, taking the total for net new debt to almost 140 billion euros, according to three people familiar with the matter. The adjustment is needed to help finance a range of government measures designed to offset ...

  Bloomberg Britain’s inflationary shock combines the worst of America’s problems with the worst of Europe’s and will be harder for policy makers to address than in any other leading industrialised nation, the head of the International Monetary Fund’s European department said. Alfred Kammer, the IMF’s European director, said prices in the UK will remain elevated for longer than other ...

  Bloomberg Sales of previously owned US homes fall in March to the lowest since June 2020 as historically low inventory paired with rising mortgage rates curbed purchases. Contract closings decreased 2.7% in March from the prior month to an annualised 5.77 million, figures from the National Association of Realtors showed. The figure was in line with estimates in a ...

  Bloomberg Billions of dollars in Argentine technology exports are going unreported as companies and freelance workers skirt currency controls, according to an industry group. About $2.2 billion of service exports from the country’s technology sector may go unreported in official data this year, according to Luis Galeazzi, executive director of Argencon, an advocacy group that published its semiannual report ...

  Bloomberg Canadian consumer price inflation shot past expectations in March, jumping to a new three-decade high and cementing expectations the Bank of Canada will continue with aggressive interest rate hikes in coming weeks. Annual inflation rises to 6.7% last month, up from 5.7% in February, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa. That’s the highest since January 1991 and exceeds the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Stallions Group PJSC subsidiary, Royal Development Company (RDC), a property management firm, have been appointed by Q Properties to manage Reem Hills, the recently launched AED8 billion luxury residential project on Abu Dhabi’s Reem Island. With the first phase due for completion in December 2024, Royal Development Company will manage the project in its ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE has strongly condemned the two terror attacks in Afghanistan, one of which targeted a mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif, in which a number of civilians were killed and injured. In a statement on Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) affirmed that, “the UAE expresses its strong condemnation of these criminal acts ...