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Bloomberg Australia’s jobless rate fell in April, adding to the previous month’s strong employment gains, reinforcing expectations that the central bank won’t cut interest rates further. Employment rose 37,400 from March; economists forecast 5,000 gain Jobless rate fell to 5.7%, the lowest since January, vs 5.9% estimate. Full-time jobs fell 11,600; part-time employment rose 49,000. Participation rate held at 64.8% ...

Bloomberg The Philippine economy expanded less than economists forecast last quarter as government and consu-mer spending weakened. Stocks and the peso fell. Gross domestic product increased 6.4 percent from a year earlier, the Philippine Statistics Authority said in Manila on Thursday, after expanding 6.6 percent in the fourth quarter. The median estimate of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for ...

Bloomberg US wheat grabbed its first sale to the Egyptian government in more than two years as the world’s biggest buyer requested grain with a higher protein content, knocking France out of the mix. Egypt’s General Authority for Supply Commodities bought two cargoes of US wheat totaling 115,000 metric tons, of 39 percent of the amount purchased, according to two ...

Bloomberg American factories flexed some muscle in April, boosting output by the most since February 2014 in broad fashion. Along with gains at mines and utilities, total industrial output was also the strongest in more than three years, Federal Reserve data showed. Factory production rose 1 percent (forecast called for a 0.4 percent gain) after a 0.4 percent drop in ...

Bloomberg Unexpected declines in US new-home construction and building permits in April indicate the market is off to a weak start this quarter, government data showed. The results indicate that residential construction is at risk of dragging down growth in the second quarter, lessening any economic rebound after weakness in the previous period. Other indicators of housing demand remain healthy, ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Penthol, a global organization in the supply and distribution of oil products and petrochemicals, appointing them as exclusive seller of ADNOC’s Group III base oil into the United States of America (USA). In line with its strategy to maximise ...

ABU DHABI / WAM UAE and Swedish minister have discussed prospects of co-operation in innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises, research and development, R&D, as well as smart cities, as trade between the two countries stood at US$1.1 billion in 2016, according to the Ministry of Economy. As well as underlining cooperation between the two countries in these vital sectors, Abdullah ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business HE Eng Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, UAE Minister of Economy, discussed ways to further deepen the existing economic and trade ties with the Republic of India during a meeting with a high-level delegation of Indian businessmen and private sector representatives headed Shobana Kamineni, President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The Minister also ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE stock markets on Wednesday saw a robust rise in the leading shares of the real estate sector at the Dubai Financial Market, with Emaar shares leading at AED7.52, and Etisalat shares registering a significant rise. The largest support for the market came from the Emaar shares that bounced to the level of AED7.52 after ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s trade with Qatar grew 92 percent in the period from 2011 to 2016, reaching AED15 billion last year, according to Sultan bin Sulayem, DP World Group Chairman and CEO and Chairman of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, PCFC. “The GCC customs union is moving steadily towards a full integration between the GCC countries by supporting ...