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  Bloomberg Tesla Motors Inc. customers in the UK may find their Christmas cash goes a little further than expected after the carmaker postponed a price increase by two weeks. The US electric-auto manufacturer’s plans to raise prices 5 percent in the UK have been put off until Jan. 15 from the original beginning-of-the-year deadline, Tesla said in an e-mailed ...

  Bloomberg Household confidence in the US is closing in on its best year since before the last recession, according to figures in the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index. Comfort measure cooled to 46 in period ended Dec. 25, the first retreat in five weeks, from 46.7. The gauge in the prior week was the strongest since April 2015. Gauge of ...

  Bloomberg Euro-area manufacturing expanded last month at the fastest rate since April 2011, in a sign that the currency bloc’s recovery is intact heading into 2017. A Purchasing Managers’ Index climbed to 54.9 in December, IHS Markit said on Monday. The reading matches the initial estimate on Dec. 15 and was up from 53.7 in November. Higher import costs ...

  Beijing / AFP China will further tighten controls on individuals’ foreign currency purchases to try to curb massive capital flight from the country as the yuan falls sharply against the dollar. Individuals wishing to convert yuan to foreign currencies will now have to provide more detailed information to their bank, including an explanation of the funds concerned in addition ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Emirati and Kazakh officials discussed ways of promoting co-operation and co-ordination on religious affairs to project the genuine and bright image of Islam, its upholding of ethical and human values as well as its call to spread tolerance and peaceful co-existence and reject fanaticism, extremism and terrorism. Chairman of the UAE General Authority of Islamic ...

  Dubai / WAM Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on Saturday night inspected the Dubai Police operations room, set up to secure the New Year celebrations at the Burj Khalifa and on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard in Downtown Dubai. No incidents, security breaches or injuries were reported during the ...

    Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Education will launch a specialised training programme tomorrow, so far the biggest such initiative, targeting 11,500 teachers, 1,000 school principals, 92 academic supervisors and 300 laboratories specialists, in addition to 340 learning resource specialists and 370 special education teachers. The 1,000 principals will include regional managers, their assistants, school principals and their assistants, ...

  Dubai / WAM Rising to the call of the ‘100 Days of Positivity’ programme, students of Academia Management Solutions International (AMSI) — a leading academic solutions provider which manages both ISAS and Al Mawakeb Schools — participated in special activities and merged them into their school routines. The initiative, launched by the National Program for Happiness and Positivity, along with ...

  Dubai / WAM The Bank of China is expected to play a role in some of the UAE’s most important projects, including infrastructure, tourism, real estate, trade and logistics. Dubai has a wide network of economic relations with several countries, however, its ties with China are deep and unique, particularly in terms of the Dubai Government’s vision to expand these ...

  Sharjah / WAM Under the patronage of H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of H.H. the Ruler of Sharjah, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children and Chairperson of The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), has launched the ‘Sharjah ...