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Gas pipelines facing $18.5 billion threat from Trump tax revamp

Bloomberg Pipeline owners led by Enbridge Inc. and Williams Cos. could be forced to refund as much as $18.5 billion to drillers, utilities and even United Airlines Inc. for upfront payments they charged customers before new US tax rules cut the corporate rate. Natural gas conduits include the cost of future tax payments in customer fees. Because the Trump administration ...

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After Tesla debacle, Denmark reconsiders electric car subsidies

Bloomberg Denmark may be open to financial incentives to buy electric cars after seeing a dramatic drop in sales of non-polluting vehicles, according to Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen. “We have tax incentives for electric cars, and you could discuss if they should be bigger. I will not exclude that,” Rasmussen said in an interview in Copenhagen. Any new incentives ...

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Roche lifts forecast as bet outside cancer pays off

Bloomberg Roche Holding AG’s bet on fields outside its mainstay market of cancer is starting to pay off as the Swiss drugmaker boosted its forecast for this year. New medicines such as Ocrevus for multiple sclerosis and Hemlibra for hemophilia are driving the increase, the company said in a statement. The world’s biggest maker of cancer treatments also reported sales ...

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Ceridian raises $462mn in IPO

Bloomberg Ceridian HCM Holding Inc., the software maker backed by Thomas H. Lee Partners, raised $462 million in its initial public offering. The company priced 21 million shares at $22 apiece, above the $19 to $21 price range marketed to investors, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The IPO gives Ceridian a market value of almost $3 billion, according to ...

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Ford mulls $11.5bn in extra cuts, killing car business

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co. is sharpening its knives to cleave another $11.5 billion from spending plans and cut several sedans, including the Fusion and Taurus, from its lineup to more quickly reach an elusive profit target. The automaker expects to save $25.5 billion by 2022, Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks told reporters as Ford reported first-quarter earnings per share and ...

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London new-home sales rise after first price cuts since 2010

Bloomberg Sales of London homes under construction rose as developers lowered asking prices for the first time since 2010. About 6,900 of the properties were sold in the first quarter, the most in three years, with about 30 percent snapped up by institutional investors betting on rental properties, according to a report by Molior London seen by Bloomberg News. Londoners ...

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UAE reaffirms commitment to peacebuilding worldwide

NEW YORK / WAM Zaki Nusseibeh, Minister of State, has urged UN agencies and member states to take collective action to identify countries that support and finance terrorism, and hold them accountable, reaffirming the UAE commitment to peacebuilding in the Middle East and beyond. The minister made the remarks on the sidelines of his participation in the two-day United Nations’ ...

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EU sounds trade-war alarm as Trump sticks to tariff plan

Bloomberg The European Union warned about the costs of a trans-Atlantic trade war while bracing for one to erupt after the US signalled it will reject the bloc’s dem-and for an unconditional waiver from metals-import tariffs. “A trade war is a losing game for everybody,” Belgian Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt told reporters in Sofia. “We should stay cool when ...

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ADM’s AED118mn Al Maqta South project to be completed in Q2

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) nearly completed Roads and Infrastructure Project of District 25 at Al Maqta South. The project is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2018 in cooperation with Musanada, at a cost of more than AED118 million, according to an ADM press release. The development includes construction of roads ...

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Dewa, GE sign AED192.7 million pact

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has signed an agreement with General Electric to extend the lifetime of the GE 9E gas turbines at E station at the Jebel Ali Power and Desalination Station, worth AED192.7 million. The work is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2019 and end in the first quarter of ...

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