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RED SEA COAST / WAM The UAE is continuing to normalise humanitarian conditions and improve the living conditions of Yemenis in all liberated governorates, with ERC distributing clothes and food for Eid to needy families living in the Red Sea Coast. ERC representatives said Eid clothes distribution project covers 700 families in Khawkhawh, Hais and At Tuhayta districts, and included …

Bloomberg Bank of Sharjah PJSC plans to issue dollar-denominated bonds later this year to help the United Arab Emirates lender repay existing debt, people with knowledge of the plan said. The company wants to raise about $500 million in a sale likely to take place in September or October, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because …

Bloomberg Oil tumbled the most in a week as global financial markets swooned and the swelling US crude stockpiles reinforced the fears about an economic slowdown. Futures slipped more than 5 percent in New York, joining a slide in equities. American crude inventories registered a surprise increase for the second straight week, US data showed on Wednesday, although gasoline demand …

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Chinese agricultural products are likely to hurt the Asian nation a lot less than the retaliatory duties Beijing already imposes on the US. The White House, while delaying tariffs on big-ticket consumer products until Dece- mber, decided to push ahead with 10 percent tariffs on Chinese agricultural products as well as antiques, …

Bloomberg Recession fears are spreading among investors at a time when valuations across major assets are looking dangero-usly stretched following years of monetary stimulus, the latest Bank of America Corp survey shows. About a third of asset managers polled believe a global recession is likely in the next 12 months, the highest probability since 2011 — when Europe was engulfed …

Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd soared the most in more than two years after billionaire Mukesh Ambani revealed a plan to sell a stake to Aramco as part of efforts to pare debt. The conglomerate aims to be a zero-net-debt company in 18 months, Asia’s richest man told shareholders. Aiding that wou-ld be a proposed sale of 20 percent of Reliance’s …

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is in late-stage talks to acquire as much as 10 percent of India’s Future Retail Ltd, people familiar with the negotiations said, as the US company moves to bolster its bri- ck-and-mortar presence in one of the world’s fastest-growing retail markets. India’s No. 2 retailer by turnover, Future is seeking a valuation of about 20 billion rupees …

KUWAIT / Emirates Business Agility, a leading global logistics provider, on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of 12.99 fils per share on net profit of KD 21.6 million ($71 million), an increase of 8.1 percent over the same period in 2018. Q2 EBITDA grew 31.2percent to KD 48.6 million, and revenue increased 3.2percent to KD 396.3 million. First-half earnings of 25.18 …

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump decried what he called China’s “massive” intervention to suppress the yuan, portraying the US as the beneficiary of his tariffs on Chinese imports and suggesting — despite recent evidence to the contrary — that prices aren’t rising. “Through massive devaluation of their currency and pumping vast sums of money into their system, the tens of …

HODEIDAH / WAM The UAE, through its humanitarian arm, the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), on Wednesday launched a strategic water project in Qataba in the Khawkhah District, Hodeidah Governorate, as part of its efforts to respond to the needs of people in Yemen’s Red Sea Coast. Mohamed Al Junaibi, Director of Humanitarian Affairs at the ERC in Yemen, stated that …