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GENEVA / WAM Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, has discussed, with Ruba Jaradat, Assistant Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and Regional Director for Arab Countries, the potential technical cooperation between the UAE and ILO. Their discussion took place during a meeting on Tuesday in Geneva, on the sidelines of the 107th International …

OTTAWA / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met with Harjit Singh Sajjan, Minister of National Defence of Canada. During the meeting, the two sides discussed cooperation ties between the UAE and Canada especially in the military, security and defence industry sectors. They also exchanged views on the latest developments in …

Bloomberg President Donald Trump signalled his intention to impose tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports and curbs on investments in sensitive technology, sending a hawkish message to Beijing days before the latest round of trade talks between the world’s two largest economies. In a statement on Tuesday, the White House said a final list of covered imports will be …

Bloomberg Energy ministers from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait plan to meet on Saturday to discuss OPEC matters, about a week after the Saudis and Russia announced a new policy to revive oil production. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih will meet with Kuwait’s Bakheet Al-Rashidi and the UAE’s Suhail Al Mazrouei — also the holder of OPEC’s …

Bloomberg For oil traders, there’s no place quite like Saldanha Bay. When prices slumped in 2014, trading houses generated outsize profits by storing millions of barrels of crude in the deep-water harbor north of Cape Town. Now storage facilities at the port — where South Africa built vast concrete bunkers in the 1970s that helped insulate the apartheid regime from …

Bloomberg Darren Woods is mounting a strong defense of his plan to rescue Exxon Mobil Corp. from its share-price slump with a multibillion dollar investment spree that’s at odds with the belt-tightening undertaken by rivals. Far from preaching spending caps or showering investors with cash, Woods’ solution, outlined in an interview, is to invest heavily in mega-projects that he says …

Bloomberg PetroChina Co. rallied the most in two years after regulators unveiled a new gas market policy that harmonises prices for different users and is seen as an earnings boost for the nation’s biggest producer and importer of the fuel. The company’s Hong Kong-traded shares closed 6.5 percent higher in reaction to an announcement that the pricing mechanism for gas …

Bloomberg Sliding oil prices are eroding the buffers that helped Russia withstand the emerging-market retreat. Investors are pulling cash from the biggest exchange-traded fund tracking Russian assets at the fastest pace in almost a year. Redemptions from the VanEck Vectors Russia ETF, which invests in oil and gas companies including Gazprom PJSC, Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC, reached $88.9 million …

Bloomberg OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia concluded that the crude market re-balanced in April, when their collective production cuts achi- eved a key goal of draining the surplus in global stockpiles. The excess in oil inventories, which has weighed on prices for three years, plun-ged in April to less than the five-year average for stockpiles in developed nations, …

Bloomberg Beleaguered CEFC China Energy Co. is set to meet an interest payment on a dollar bond, just days after defaulting on a separate debt obligation in the domestic market and as more of the once-promising energy conglomerate’s ambitious deals fail. Bank of Communications Trustee Ltd., the trustee for the $250 million of dollar bonds issued by CEFC Shanghai International …