News

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi General Services Company, Musanada, has revealed that it has completed the emergency department renovation and expansion project at Al Rahba Hospital, to be eventually be handed over to Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, Seha, during the third quarter of 2017. This forms part of Musanada’s efforts to deliver projects that will achieve the ...

Bloomberg Eight years after it was given the power to meaningfully change smoking in America, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved to do so. The FDA announced it would take advantage of powers in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act — a law enacted under a Democratic Congress and then-President Obama — to cut the level ...

Bloomberg German’s major automakers were accused in a US lawsuit of acting as a cartel, colluding for nearly two decades to limit the pace of technological advances in their vehicles and stifle competition — allegations that widen the scope of the latest scandal to hit the nation’s auto industry. BMW AG, Daimler AG, Volkswagen AG and its Audi and Porsche ...

Bloomberg Netflix Inc., which has been spending billions of dollars on TV shows and movies for its online video service, lined up a $500 million revolving credit facility through five lenders including Deutsche Bank AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The company has the option to increase the credit line by $250 million, according to a regulatory filing on Friday. ...

Bloomberg An extended shutdown of a Ford production facility in Turkey is due to a supply shortage of a transmission produced in Bordeaux, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be named because the issue hasn’t been publicly announced. The Ford Otosan plant in Yenikoy, Kocaeli province, a joint venture between Ford Motor Co. ...

Bloomberg Caution lights are flashing for the oil industry. Facing lower-than-expected commodity prices, drillers from ConocoPhillips to Hess Corp. to Statoil ASA have slashed their capital spending plans in recent days, as companies lay out their plans to cope with oil prices stuck below $50 a barrel. The budget cuts won’t necessarily mean less oil or natural gas on the ...

Bloomberg Representatives of some OPEC and non-OPEC nations will meet in Abu Dhabi on August 7-8 to discuss why some of them are falling behind in their pledges to cut production, according to an OPEC statement. The meeting, co-chaired by Kuwait and Russia, will examine reasons why some countries aren’t fully implementing their cuts, it said. Some nations will argue ...

Bloomberg Kuwait joined the United Arab Emirates in promising to pump less oil after Saudi Arabia called on fellow OPEC producers to cut more supply to help curb the global glut. Kuwait Petroleum Corp. has agreed with customers in the US to reduce contractual sales volumes of oil for 2017, state-run KPC said. The announcement came after UAE Minister of ...

Bloomberg A wave of next-generation upstarts is hitting America’s oil patch, offering high-tech solutions aimed at an industry in flux following the worst crude-market crash in a generation. At a time when the five biggest oilfield servicers — still smarting from the price rout — have cut almost $1 billion from their research budgets, companies such as Ambyint Inc. are ...

Bloomberg Starbucks Corp. suffered its biggest stock decline in almost two years after cutting its forecast, renewing fears about sputtering growth at the world’s largest coffee chain. The shares dropped as much as 8.2 percent to $54.63 in New York, the biggest intraday plunge since August 2015. Slowing growth in the US forced Starbucks to cut its profit forecast for ...