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Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co quickened revenue growth to roughly 30 percent in the first half after select teams secured critical supplies to keep production going despite US technology export restrictions, people familiar with the matter said. Two months into a Trump-administration ban that cut Huawei off from American suppliers, China’s largest technology company is starting to feel the pinch. Still, ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc set records for lobbying in the second quarter as Washington ramped up scrutiny of big technology companies, while Google’s spending dipped as it continued to reshuffle its influence operations. The world’s largest social media site spent more than $4.1 million on lobbying, the most among big internet platforms, an increase from its previous high ...

Bloomberg The US and France agreed to push ahead with creating a global digital tax system at a Group of Seven meeting, papering over a feud on the matter that still has Washington dangling threats of tariffs. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Europe had won a concession from the US that changes to tax rules should address “highly ...

Bloomberg Standard Life Assurance Ltd. was fined 30.8 million pounds ($38 million) by UK regulators over how it handled sales of some pension products. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group Holdings Plc, offered employees “large financial incentives to sell annuities, which encouraged them to place their own financial interests ahead of their customers.” ...

Bloomberg UK manufacturers are more pessimistic than at any time in the past three years after order books shrank at a pace last exceeded during the financial crisis a decade ago, according to the Confederation of British Industry. The gloomy assessment adds to evidence that the economy suffered a Brexit hangover in the last quarter after orders were brought forward ...

Bloomberg A union at AT&T Inc is accusing the company of reneging on a labour agreement that helped gain the support of worker groups for last year’s $85 billion takeover of Time Warner. As part of a deal renewed in 2017, the Communications Workers of America pledged to support expansion efforts by AT&T and the company agreed to terms for ...

Bloomberg Harley-Davidson Inc cut its full-year operating margin outlook and 2019 bike shipment forecast after weak global motorcycle sales and the impact of tariffs dented second quarter earnings. The Milwaukee-based manufacturer slashed its shipment forecast this year to 212,000 to 217,000, from a previous range of 217,000 to 222,000. Lower shipments also prompted it to reduce its expected 2019 operating ...

BEIJING / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, witnessed the signing of a number of agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) between the two countries, spanning a series of sectors including defence, trade ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, stated that China is the UAE’s leading trade partner in terms of non-oil commodities, accounting for 9.7 percent of its total non-oil trade in 2018, valued at over $43 billion. The UAE’s non-oil foreign trade with China in 2018 represented 16 percent of its total non-oil foreign trade ...

BEIJING / WAM Dubai-based global developer Emaar will jointly implement with Beijing Daxing International Airport an AED40.5 billion ($11 billion) project including the five square kilometre land area of the 50 sq km airport. The move is in line with the visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander ...