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Bloomberg CapitaLand Commercial Trust, Singapore’s biggest office landlord, agreed to buy BlackRock Inc.’s Asia Square Tower 2 for $1.5 billion in the city’s second-largest ever sale of an office building. The transaction will be partially funded by a rights issue of about S$700 million and bank borrowings of about S$1.12 billion, CapitaLand Commercial Trust said in a statement. The company ...

Bloomberg Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said India needs to find a balance between fiscal prudence and spending, and there’s no need to panic, as he tries to dig the economy out of its deepest slump in three years. Speaking at the Bloomberg Economic Forum in Mumbai, Jaitley called for more private investment from local companies and said the banking system ...

Bloomberg ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ UK Prime Minister Theresa May continued a charm offensive to ease European worries about Brexit by writing an opinion column in France to say Britain will be reasonable about the conditions of its departure and wants to remain the nation’s closest ally after it exits. “My message to the citizens of France is clear: In the years to ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. collected more than 500,000 signatures in less than 24 hours on a petition to protest London’s decision to not renew the company’s taxi license, a setback in one of its most lucrative markets. The campaign on the website Change.org asks London Mayor Sadiq Khan to reverse Transport for London’s decision, and is being promoted on the ...

Bloomberg Walt Disney Co. is warning New York-area customers of Altice USA cable systems that they will lose ESPN, ABC and the Disney Channel if the companies fail to reach a new programming agreement. The world’s largest entertainment company plans to air warnings and run messages across viewers’ screens in the affected markets. Altice, which took over pay-TV systems owned ...

Bloomberg More home buyers are resorting to mortgages to purchase London’s most expensive houses and apartments as rising prices drag them into higher tax brackets. Seventy-four percent of homes costing 1 million pounds ($1.4 million) or more in the UK capital were bought with a mortgage in the three months through July, up from 65 percent a year earlier, according ...

Bloomberg Instagram’s most beloved cookie dough confectioner is facing a proposed class action alleging the not-baked goods cause food-borne illness. Cookie Dō, which boasts over 180,000 followers on the social media destination, sells cookie dough made from pasteurized egg product and heat-treated flour. “That means NO chance of food-borne illness or the risk that comes along with eating raw flour ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The follow-up committee of the initiatives of the UAE President approved the funding of a number of infrastructure and urban development projects across various emirates at a total cost of AED1.2 billion. The effort comes in implementation of the directives of the President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the close monitoring by ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi celebrated on Saturday the official commencement of operations of Fujairah Terminals in the East coast of the United Arab Emirates. The announcement came following an official event held at Novotel Fujairah, attended by Sheikh Saleh bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Chairman of the Board of Port of Fujairah, Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, CEO ...

NEW YORK / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State, opened the high-level ministerial seminar organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), and reviewed the role of the industrial sector in ensuring global economic prosperity through its active contribution to achieving UN’s sustainable development goals. “We live in a time of great challenges ...