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Dubai / WAM Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced the formation of the New Zealand Business Council (NZBC), in Dubai in a move to strengthen UAE-New Zealand relations and expand bilateral economic ties. The New Zealand Business Council is the 50th country-specific business council to be established in Dubai under the umbrella of Dubai Chamber. The council has ...

Bloomberg Despite sitting on top of the world’s largest crude reserves, the reach of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company is receding. In the 1980s Petroleos de Venezuela SA started an international expansion with the objective of finding new outlets for its growing oil production. The company bought Citgo Petroleum Corp. in the US, leased the Isla refinery in Curacao, bought a ...

Bloomberg The US and China are edging closer to resolving differences on currencies that have bogged down economic talks for nearly two decades. The only question is how meaningful the deal will be. With both nations inching towards a trade agreement that’s expected to include a provision for China to hold the yuan stable, US President Donald Trump is shifting ...

Bloomberg China won’t make big concessions to the US in order to seal a trade deal, former finance minister Lou Jiwei said in Beijing on Wednesday, calling some US demands for change “unreasonable.” “China’s concessions probably won’t be very big because a lot of their demands are what we already plan to reform,” Lou, who was finance minister until 2016 ...

Bloomberg PT Mayora Indah, Indonesia’s largest listed consumer goods exporter, expects demand for its instant coffee and biscuits to drive a double digit growth in revenue during next five years. The company, which generates about half its revenue overseas, will boost instant coffee exports to Russia and Eastern European countries this year, said Ricky Afrianto, Mayora’s global marketing director. It ...

Bloomberg Carlos Ghosn walked out of a Tokyo prison on bail after 108 days in detention, vowing to fight allegations of financial crimes that could imprison the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman for as long as a decade. Flanked by police officers and wearing construction worker reflectors, a light blue baseball cap, a face mask and eyeglasses, Ghosn climbed into ...

Bloomberg Investors looking for opportunities to make money in India’s election year will most likely find them in the battered corner of the nation’s $2 trillion stock market: mid-cap shares. Mid- and small-sized companies are trading at a discount to their historical averages after the recent selloff, and the fund house plans to gradually boost its exposure to them relative ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump regularly declares that he’s winning his trade wars. Yet evidence is growing that the US economy is a net loser so far. In two separate papers published over the weekend, some of the world’s leading trade economists declared Trump’s tariffs to be the most consequential trade experiment seen since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs blamed for worsening ...

Bloomberg A federal judge is requiring PG&E Corp. to abide by rules governing how the utility operates its power lines in California, seeking to reform what he described as “dismal” management that led to a series of destructive fires over the past two years. US District Judge William Alsup gave PG&E a March 22 deadline to present any arguments as ...

Bloomberg General Electric Co.’s new boss warned of additional cash problems at the ailing company, eroding confidence in a nascent turnaround and sending the shares tumbling. Cash flow from GE’s industrial operations will be negative this year as GE grapples with further challenges in its power business and other operational pressures, Chief Executive Officer Larry Culp said at an industry ...