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Chinese media hits back at Trump’s fentanyl claim

Bloomberg The latest tariff move by the US has “seriously breached” the truce that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed in Japan in late June and isn’t doing any good to trade talks, according to a People’s Daily commentary. “It deviates from the correct track and is not conducive to solving the problem,” the paper, mouthpiece of the Communist ...

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India plans to cut coal imports by a third over next five years

Bloomberg India’s coal ministry is preparing a plan to cut imports of the fuel by at least a third over the next five years, counting on an increase in domestic production and a jump in renewable output, according to people familiar with the plan. Imports are seen falling to below 150 million tons by the year ending March 2024, down ...

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Berkshire cash pile hits record $122 billion as profits increase

Bloomberg Warren Buffett’s distaste for overpaying is winning out over his frustration with sitting on a lot of cash. With stocks at record highs, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. sold $1 billion more worth of stocks than it bought last quarter, its biggest net selling since the end of 2017. Buffett spent last year building a massive stake in Apple Inc. and ...

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Poland’s $32 billion mortgage fiasco gets its day in EU court

Bloomberg From his humble beginnings setting up a one-man law firm in Warsaw, Jacek Czabanski has become a crusader for Poland’s struggling mortgage holders, fighting a battle that stands to reshape the country’s powerful banking industry. Since 2015, Czabanski has been busy building a case for several hundred mortgage holders who have sued their banks for what they say are ...

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White House weighs September release of new health care plan

Bloomberg The Trump administration is considering releasing a health care plan next month to counter the push by some 2020 Democratic candidates for a Medicare for All program, Dow Jones reports, citing people familiar with the discussions that it didn’t identify. The plan could include a guarantee to maintain coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, as well as efforts to ...

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Uber expects another short-term UK license

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. expects to only be given another short-term license to operate in London when its current permit to operate there ends towards the end of next month, Sky News reported. The company has little chance of securing a longer term five-year agreement for the UK capital, according to report. London is one of Uber Technologies’s most successful ...

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For Ireland plc, pain of no-deal Brexit starts to hit home

Bloomberg Ireland’s biggest companies are getting a taste of the pain that could come from the UK crashing out of the European Union without a deal. Amid the deepening impasse over how to deal with the Irish border, the country’s ISEQ All-Share Index has been the worst performing benchmark in Europe, the Middle East and Africa since Boris Johnson became ...

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China is paying US tens of billions of dollars: Trump

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump said “things are going along very well with China,” and repeated his contention that Beijing is paying the US “Tens of Billions of Dollars” after successive rounds of import tariffs. This was “made possible by Chinese government’s monetary devaluations and their pumping in massive amounts of cash to keep their system going,” Trump said in ...

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UAE to implement common electronic customs system

ABU DHABI / WAM In collaboration with the local customs administrations, the Federal Customs Authority initiated the executive procedures to unify customs system across the UAE. The move is meant to authorise common customs electro-nic system within all local customs administrations as well as border zones in order to contribute to cementing the security scheme, facilitate trade, simplify clearing procedures, ...

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ADX bolsters ties with Shanghai exchange

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business A delegation from the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), headed by HE Khalifa Salem Al Mansouri, Acting Chief Executive of ADX, visited the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The visit comes as part of the framework of strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership between the financial markets and exploring and enhancing the partnership and cooperation opportunities for investors ...

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