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  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 ...

  Dubai / WAM About 2,145 real estate and property transactions worth AED6.3 billion were conducted in Dubai during the week ending April 22, according to the Land Department of the Government of Dubai. Two hundred and twenty-five plots were sold for AED1.12 billion, and 1,436 apartments and villas were sold for AED3.2 billion, said a Land Department statement on ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business (KBIZ) signed a cooperation agreement to strengthen economic and trading relationships between their respective members. Signed in Abu Dhabi, the cooperation agreement stipulates that both parties shall support the business environment as a global system for positive partnerships ...

  Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Islamic Bank (SIB) announced an increase in its operating profit before provisions by 17.1%, amounting to AED 248.5 million for the first quarter 2022, compared to AED 212.2 million for the same period of the previous year. Net profit amounts to AED 187.0 million for the quarter ended March 31 compared to AED 164.2 million ...