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Bloomberg General Electric Co. finalised an agreement to pay $1.5 billion to settle a US investigation into the manufacturer’s defunct subprime-mortgage business. The civil penalty will resolve claims that WMC Mortgage, a former unit of GE’s finance arm, misrepresented the quality of residential mortgage-backed securities, the US Justice Department said in a statement. GE, which first revealed the agreement in ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US will cut regulations and free up spectrum for 5G technology amid tight competition with China and other nations to develop the next genera-tion of telecommunications infrastructure. “The race to 5G is a race that America must win,” Trump said at the White House. “We cannot allow any other country to out-compete the United ...

Bloomberg Talks between General Motors Co. and electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive Inc. about the largest US carmaker buying an equity stake have reached an impasse and may be dead, people familiar with the matter said. GM had negotiated potentially taking a stake in Rivian and forging a partnership that may have helped the Plymouth, Michigan-based startup bring fully electric trucks ...

Bloomberg Utility giant PG&E Corp. capped its best day since going bankrupt in January thanks to California’s governor. Gavin Newsom called on lawmakers to find a way to help the state’s utilities cover the costs of devastating wildfires — costs so crippling that PG&E was forced to file for Chapter 11 in January while facing $30 billion in liabilities. He ...

Bloomberg Mubadala Investment Co opened an office in New York as the Abu Dhabi wealth fund builds on its presence in the United States. “Today we have offices in San Francisco, we have offices in Rio De Janeiro, we have offices in Moscow, we have an office in New York City which we just inaugurated, and Hong Kong by the ...

Bloomberg Network International shares surged in London trading after the payments processor raised 1.1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) in an initial public offering that’s the biggest listing in Europe so far this year. Network International jumped 22 percent to 532.20 pence in London. The Dubai-based company sold 200 million shares for 435 pence each, according to a statement on Wednesday. ...

SHARJAH / WAM Dana Gas has announced that its average production for Q1, 2019 has increased by 6 percent year-on-year to 68,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) from 65,000 boepd in Q1 2018. The first quarter production increase was led by the KRI (Kurdistan Region of Iraq), which leapt to 32,750 boepd in Q1, 2019 from 26,300 boepd ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Industry, affirmed that there is a “high probability” of achieving balance in the oil market by the end of 2019. “The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) in Jeddah next month will look into the prevailing market conditions and decide to continue the output cut deal ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The CEO of NATIXIS, a global Asset Management Company with $1,008 billion in assets under its management, described the UAE as an “attractive” investment haven. “The UAE for us is an attractive place, no doubt. It is classified as an emerging market. You have stability and you have a long term view of economic development,” Jean ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Aldar Properties PJSC (Aldar) announced the launch of its latest waterfront development, Lea – located on the northern shores of Yas Island. Offering land plots starting at AED 990,000 and sizes ranging from 405 square metres – 1,800 sqm, and available for purchase by all nationalities, sales will commence at Cityscape Abu Dhabi, running from April ...