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Bahrain says big oil find dwarfs reserves

Bloomberg Bahrain, the smallest energy producer in the Persian Gulf, discovered its biggest oil field since it started producing crude in 1932, according to the country’s official news agency. The shale oil and natural gas discovered in a deposit off the island state’s west coast “is understood to dwarf Bahrain’s current reserves,” Bahrain News Agency reported, without giving figures. US ...

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Crude futures drop 1.9 percent

Bloomberg Crude fell as a sell-off in equity markets signalled a flight from riskier investments. Futures slid as much as 1.9 percent in New York. US stocks declined as China imposed retaliatory tariffs on US goods, the latest move in escalating trade dispute between world’s largest economies. At the same time, supply concerns that prompted hedge funds to increase bullish ...

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Iraq cabinet approves raising crude oil output capacity

Reuters The Iraqi cabinet approved a plan to raise the nation’s crude oil output capacity to 6.5 million barrels per day by 2022, according to a government statement. Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said in January capacity was currently close to 5 million bpd. The country is producing more than 4.4 million bpd in line with an agreement between the ...

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Adobe steps up AI-powered marketing to take on rivals

Bloomberg Adobe Systems Inc., the company best known for Photoshop, has lately been spending its time trying to figure out what makes consumers tick. The software maker has been quietly undertaking a project to help corporate customers automate their marketing efforts, part of an accelerated push into artificial intelligence. Called Perfect Path, the prototype system aims to use massive amounts ...

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Time Warner attacks US data underpinning AT&T merger suit

Bloomberg Time Warner Inc.’s attorneys launched a withering attack on the US government’s evidence that its proposed sale to AT&T Inc. could trigger large subscriber losses for pay-TV rivals and lead to an abuse of leverage in programming deals. On the fifth day of the Justice Department’s antitrust trial to stop the deal, Time Warner said the US’s expert estimates ...

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Facebook limits brokers’ data use for ad targets

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is conducting a broad review of all its data practices and taking a much more conservative stance on some policies, moves that could limit advertisers’ ability to target users on the social network, according to people familiar with the matter. As part of the changes that will be rolled out over the next few weeks, Facebook said ...

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Starwood bids $1billion for Swedish firm Victoria Park

Bloomberg Starwood Capital Group offered to buy Victoria Park AB in a $1 billion deal that would give the US investment firm a foothold in Sweden’s rented-residential real estate market. The cash offer to shareholders in Victoria Park values the Swedish company at about 8.68 billion kronor, Starwood said in a statement to the stock exchange in Stockholm. Victoria Park ...

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Nissan’s Infiniti seen recharging its attack on BMW, Audi

Bloomberg Infiniti is recharging its attack on BMW and Audi. The Nissan Motor Co. premium brand wants to use the structural changes enabled by the industry’s shift toward electric and self-driving cars—such as a larger cabin and fewer components under the hood—as a chance to inject a Japanese touch of simplicity and space into its models. That entails a minimalist ...

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Abu Dhabi to host first Green business summit

Abu Dhabi / WAM The first-ever Green Business Summit in Abu Dhabi will include a series of special panel discussions led by leading experts in international policy and sustainable development. Key topics include an assessment of global sustainability initiatives, how governments can create a policy fram-ework that stimulates the transition to a greener future, and what it will take for ...

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RTA awards AED1.3 billion deal for Expo roads project

DUBAI / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) awarded two contracts worth AED1.3 billion for phases 3 and 4 of roads leading to Expo 2020 project. The project is intended to ensure a smooth flow of traffic to serve exhibition visitors as well as future projects in the area. The latest announcement comes as per the directives of His ...

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