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ABU DHABI / WAM Brazil-UAE bilateral trade is set to increase this year with the intensified business transactions, a top Brazilian diplomat said. “The bilateral trade stood at $2.6 billion in 2018, however, the first eight months of 2019 have already witnessed $2 billion trade transactions. This means 2019 trade volumes will surpass the 2018 figures,” Fernando Luis Lemos Igreja, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation, has highlighted the UAE leadership’s commitment to providing optimal health and prenatal care to women in the country. In a speech marking the over 25 years of dedicated ...

Bloomberg Maruti Suzuki India Ltd posted its lowest quarterly profit since fiscal 2016, caught in the Indian auto market’s worst ever sales slowdown. The Suzuki Motor Corp unit reported net profit of 13.6 billion rupees ($190 million) in the three months ended on September 30, down 39% from 22.4 billion rupees a year earlier. That still beat forecasts: analysts on ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc and ICICI Securities Ltd are among banks selected for UTI Asset Management Co’s planned initial public offering in Mumbai, according to people familiar with the matter. HSBC Holdings Plc, SBI Capital Markets Ltd and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd are also picked to arrange the Indian mutual fund’s share sale, said the people, who asked not to be ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s budget deficit is set to widen this year as a weakening economy puts pressure on government revenue, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said. The manufacturing sector is struggling and commodity prices have dropped significantly, Indrawati told reporters Thursday in Jakarta. She said she’d issued a decree that would allow the government to widen the 2019 deficit and borrow ...

Bloomberg India’s top court ordered several telecom carriers, including Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone Idea Ltd and many defunct ones, to pay the government as much as 920 billion rupees ($13 billion) in past dues, dealing a blow to the businesses already struggling to make profits and pare debt. The Supreme Court, in a ruling read out by a two-judge bench ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s small-cap listings are experiencing outsized gains on their debuts, and none more so than Singaporean companies. Four of them have gone public in Hong Kong in the second half of this year, opening 55% higher than their offer price on average and ending their first day up 58%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That compares with ...

Bloomberg China aims to buy at least $20 billion of agricultural products in a year if it signs a partial trade deal with the US, and would consider boosting purchases further in future rounds of talks, people familiar with the matter said. The $20 billion would take its imports of US farm goods back to around the level in 2017, ...

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp has won the sought-after JEDI cloud computing contract with the Pentagon valued at as much as $10 billion over a decade, dealing a blow to the market leader, Amazon.com Inc, which had been the front-runner. The decision, which was announced by the Defense Department, may be challenged by Amazon, according to a person familiar with the matter, ...

Bloomberg General Motors (GM) employees voted in favor of a new four-year labor agreement reached with the United Auto Workers (UAW), ending a nearly six-week-long strike that has cost the company about $2 billion and rippled through the US economy. The union said the deal was approved by 57.1% of its members, enough to ratify the contract and stop the ...