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Bloomberg The first major utility to embrace green power is cultivating its roots as a grid operator to insulate it from new rivals seeking a foothold in the electricity business. Iberdrola SA’s Chief Executive Officer Ignacio Galan said selling power directly to environmentally-conscious companies and running grids that earn a predictable return are at the heart of the strategy for …

Bloomberg Chesapeake Energy Corp’s agreement to sell shale assets in Ohio for about $2 billion boosted the natural gas producer’s shares as it moves to whittle down debt. The deal announced with closely held Encino Acquisition Partners is Chief Executive Officer Doug Lawler’s biggest in 3 1/2 years. After Chesapeake said almost all of the proceeds will be used to …

ABU DHABI / WAM Around AED1 billion worth of wages was transferred through UAE Wages Protection System (WPS) during the period from 2013 through 2017. According to CBUAE statistics, salaries transferred thro-ugh WPS has been on a rise over past five years, increasing from AED147 million in 2013 to AED170.6 million in 2014. In 2015, AED196 million worth of salaries …

Bloomberg Europe will build more terminals to import US liquefied natural gas, the head of the European Commission told US President Donald Trump during a meeting aimed at averting a transatlantic trade war. “They want very much to do that, and we have plenty of it,” Trump said, referring to the US shale boom, which has unleashed record supplies of …

Bloomberg Saudi Basic Industries Corp, the Middle East’s biggest petrochemicals producer, posted an 81 percent increase in second-quarter profit on higher sales prices and volumes. Net income rose to 6.7 billion riyals ($1.8 billion) from 3.71 billion riyals a year ago, the company known as Sabic said in a statement. Revenue climbed 26 percent to 43.3 billion riyals. The company …

HODEIDAH / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), has sent an urgent relief convoy to the Tuhaita District and other liberated areas of the historic Zubid city in the governorate of Hodeidah as part of the UAE’s emergency relief response to the humanitarian situation in the Red Sea Coast liberated areas. The ERC said the urgent food assistance includes food …

Bloomberg Major car-producing nations are due to meet without the US to discuss possibly coordinating their response to President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs. Representatives of the European Union, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Japan will convene in Geneva on July 31 to debate how to respond if the US imposes levies on car imports, as well as prospects for …

NEW DELHI / WAM The UAE and Invest India have on Saturday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the India – UAE Artificial Intelligence Bridge which is dedicated to spur discussion and explore options for both countries to grow their artificial intelligence economies. This partnership will generate an estimated $20 billion in economic benefits during the next decade. Omar bin Sultan …

DUBAI / Emirates Business Arab Bank Group reported net income after tax for the six months period ended June 30 of $436 million compared to $415 million in prior period, recording a growth of 5%. The Group’s net income before tax grew by 6.4% to reach $582 million with net operating income reaching $ 668.5 million and recording a solid …

Bloomberg BP Plc agreed to pay $10.5 billion, its biggest acquisition in almost two decades, for most of BHP Billiton Ltd.’s onshore US oil and natural gas assets, including in the prized Permian Basin. The deal gives the London-based energy giant a position in the Permian, a swath of west Texas and New Mexico that’s the world’s fastest-growing major oil …