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Dubai / Emirates Business As part of its efforts to provide modern services and ensure customer satisfaction, Dubai Land Department (DLD) announced a new development through the completion of ‘The Development Initiative’ for the lease self-registration service by adding new services to the Ejari smart application. Sultan Butti bin Mejren, Director General of DLD, said: “This step is important in ...

SHARJAH / WAM Over 500 business leaders and 30 industry experts, chief executives and decision-makers representing the region and the world will lead discussions at the fourth Sharjah FDI Forum. Taking place on December 10-11 in Sharjah, under the theme, ‘Shaping the Future of Economies’, the Forum will see global experts cover corporate investment strategies, expansion opportunities, and explore the ...

Bloomberg Despite strong incentives in the Republican tax plan for American executives to expand, invest and ultimately boost the US economy’s growth potential, a lot of the debt companies are issuing appears to be motivated by something else. Non-financial corporate debt stands at 45.6 percent of gross domestic product, near the highest in post-war record keeping. Despite that, non-residential investment ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp may be poised for further volatility on Monday after disclosing a second power-line failure on the morning that California’s deadliest fire began. A circuit in Concow, Butte County, failed at about 6:45 am on November 8, the utility said in a filing to the state’s Public Utilities Commission. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known ...

Bloomberg The former chief executive officer of Intel Corp who was ousted over an inappropriate relationship with an employee has accepted a marginal pay cut to join CDK Global Inc, a much smaller company that provides software to the auto industry. Brian Krzanich was named CEO and a member of the board. He’ll succeed Brian MacDonald, who had been leading ...

Bloomberg The UK government has drawn up a package of reforms to improve the way public services are outsourced, after construction firm Carillion Plc became one of the biggest corporate casualties in British history this year. Outsourcing firms, including Serco Group Plc and Capita Plc, will issue “living wills” over the coming weeks, Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington plans to ...

Bloomberg Telecom Italia SpA’s decision to name Luigi Gubitosi as its new chief executive officer marks another victory for Elliott Management Corp in its push for a radical overhaul of the embattled phone company. The board, stacked with directors representing billionaire Paul Singer’s fund, chose the former Merrill Lynch banker at a meeting. Gubitosi succeeds Amos Genish, who was ousted ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Ltd is considering a plan to boost its oil-refining capacity by about half, people with knowledge of the matter said. The proposed plant, to come up at the world’s biggest refining complex in Jamnagar, will be able to process as much as 30 million tonnes of crude a year, the people said asking not ...

Bloomberg BGC Partners Inc is entering the shipbroking market for the first time, buying Poten and Partners Group Inc to bet on demand for liquefied natural gas. Poten, which is based in New York, specializes in the LNG tanker and liquid petroleum gas markets, with 170 staff in offices from London to Singapore, Houston, Athens, Guangzhou and Perth. BGC didn’t ...

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co. will remove Carlos Ghosn as chairman after he was arrested in Tokyo for violations of financial law, throwing the auto industry’s largest global alliance into turmoil. Ghosn, among the most prominent car-industry leaders globally and also the Chief Executive Officer of Renault SA, has been arrested over the suspected breach of Japanese financial trading law, the ...