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SHARJAH / WAM The Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) and the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) recently convened a meeting to explore ways to develop the publishing industry in the UAE and the Arab world, as well as strengthen the presence of Emirati publishers in the regional and global publishing arenas. The meeting aligns with both entities’ long-term strategy to enhance collaboration ...

Bloomberg Saudi Aramco, which plans what could be the world’s biggest initial public offering, will invest more than $300 billion over the next decade to maintain its spare oil-production capacity and explore for more natural gas, President and Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said. The outlook for oil supplies is “increasingly worrying,” with about $1 trillion in investments lost during ...

NEW DELHI / Reuters India, the world’s third-largest oil importer, will import crude oil from the United States for the first time after Indian Oil Corp bought a cargo that will be delivered in October. The purchase comes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US in June when President Donald Trump said his country looked forward to ...

Bloomberg After President Donald Trump’s exuberant visit to Warsaw last week, where he encouraged Poland and its east European neighbors to buy US liquefied natural gas, it’s time for sober calculations by Poland’s gas company. PGNiG SA Chief Executive Officer Piotr Wozniak said in an interview that the state-controlled company is already in talks with potential suppliers to fill the ...

Bloomberg The tussle for supremacy between OPEC and US shale drillers is killing off older oil fields at the fastest pace in almost a quarter century. That could hurt the industry once the current glut has faded. The three-year price slump triggered by the battle for market share choked off funds for aging deposits elsewhere, accelerating their decline. Output at ...

Bloomberg China is the new leader of shipping trade to the Americas. State-owned Cosco Shipping Holdings Co.’s $6.3 billion offer to buy Orient Overseas International Ltd. would create an entity that’s the biggest shipping company moving boxes to the North American continent from Asia, beating Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S and France’s CMA CGM SA. The takeover, announced in Hong Kong, ...

Bloomberg Sunac China Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy hotels, land and projects from Dalian Wanda Group Co. for 63.2 billion yuan ($9.3 billion) in China’s largest property deal, as billionaire Chairman Sun Hongbin moves to take advantage of competitors shedding assets. Sunac will buy 76 hotels from Wanda through a unit and will purchase a 91 percent stake of 13 ...

Bloomberg China’s producer price gains held up, signaling that demand in the world’s second-largest economy is maintaining pace for now, even in the face of regulatory curbs. The producer price index rose 5.5 percent in June from a year earlier, in line with the estimate in a Bloomberg survey as well as the reading in May. The consumer price index ...

Bloomberg Indian shares rose, and the benchmark index rallied its second record high in three sessions, after a regulator tightened rules for offshore derivatives and banned so-called “naked” bets. The National Stock Exchange, the country’s largest bourse, suffered its longest technical outage, handing over the volumes to rival BSE Ltd. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex climbed 1.1 percent to close ...

Bloomberg Japan’s investors returned to developed bond markets in May, mopping up Treasuries, German bunds and French debt one month before a global selloff sparked by hawkish comments from major central banks. Investors bought a net 1.32 trillion yen ($11.6 billion) of US sovereign debt in May, the most in nine months, according to Japan’s balance-of-payment data released on Monday. ...