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Bloomberg Cisco Systems Inc. shares slipped in trading after the network-equipment maker’s fourth-quarter forecasts fell short of Wall Street’s most optimistic projections. Before the company provided its outlook for the current period, the stock had surged 32 percent in a year, last week reaching the highest price in more than 17 years. While Cisco said it’s optimistic about demand and ...

Bloomberg Linde AG and Praxair Inc. are poised to get a so-called statement of objections listing potential reasons for the European Union’s antitrust regulator to block their proposed $46 billion merger, according to three people familiar with the EU review. Such a filing — common in complex merger probes — would lay out precise concerns with the transaction combining the ...

Bloomberg Daimler AG and Deutsche Telekom AG agreed to a 3.2 billion-euro ($3.8 billion) deal with the German government, ending a spat over the clunky start of a system to collect truck tolls that had become one of the country’s longest running legal disputes. The agreement involves a cash payment of 1.1 billion euros, which will be split evenly between ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Hussein Al Nowais, Chairman of National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), a subsidiary of the Senaat Abu Dhabi, announced the company achieved a profit of AED700 million in 2017, an increase of 57% that the previous year, despite impact of low oil prices. Its revenues increased 21% to AED5.7 billion, an indicator of comp- any’s topline performance. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent congratulatory messages to the Kings, Emirs and Presidents of Arab and Islamic nations, on the advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan. In his messages, President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa wished the leaders and their people continued good health and well-being, and further progress and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Adnoc Distribution released its financial results for the first quarter of 2018, with strong double-digit growth in net profit and EBITDA as well as impressive growth in gross profit in its convenience store business. Gross profit for the period increased 14.3% compared to the same period last year to AED1.185 billion, EBITDA has grown 24.9% to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) attended inauguration of the Northern City Residential and Infrastructure Project, one of the key strategic projects in Bahrain. ADFD has allocated AED 2.6 billion towards the development of the project. The Northern City Residential and Infrastructure Project has been developed as part of AED9.175-billion grant provided by the UAE to ...

DUBAI / WAM Noor Bank welcomed listing of $500 sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai. The capital raised supports Noor Bank’s continuing rapid growth as a fully scalable universal Islamic bank across the UAE active in a wide range of products and services including retail, corporate and investment banking as well as treasury and insurance. Noor Bank has arranged over $64 billion ...

DUBAI / WAM UPS officially opened its new 32,000 square metre package sorting and delivery facility in the south east of England. At $163 million, the new London Hub is one of UPS’s largest single infrastructure investments outside of the United States in the company’s history. “Every single day, we see evidence of a more inter-connected world of commerce. And ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced that it has succeeded in achieving a compliance rate of 99 percent regarding the disclosure of the first quarter (Q1) financial statements of its listed public joint stock companies within the deadline of 45 days from the end of the financial period. As many as 65 listed companies out of ...