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Bloomberg Mexico’s Finance Ministry is preparing a support plan for Petroleos Mexicanos and studying all potential options, including a capital transfer or reducing the company’s tax burden, chief economist Luis Madrazo said. Capital aid for Pemex could come from part of the special revenue that the government will receive from the central bank’s operational surplus, Madrazo said in an interview ...

Bloomberg Hours after Argentina cut a deal with New York hedge funds to end a nasty, 15-year-old debt dispute, the government’s top economic officials took to the podium in Buenos Aires to bask in the moment. First to speak that February evening was the finance minister, Alfonso Prat-Gay. He’s an old JPMorgan Chase & Co. guy, a currency strategist. To ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s consumer inflation slowed more than expected in February as a prolonged recession eats into Brazilians’ purchasing power. The benchmark IPCA consumer price index rose 0.9 percent from the previous month, following a 1.27 percent jump in January. That was lower than the median forecast for a 0.98 percent increase from 43 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Twelve-month inflation slowed ...

Bloomberg Freeman’s, the oldest U.S. auction house, is changing ownership for the first time after more than two centuries in business. Three senior managers, who have led the company’s turnaround since 1999, are buying out the family that has owned the auction house since founding it in 1805, according to a statement from the company. Terms weren’t disclosed. The Freeman ...

Emirates Business Total tourism revenues in Ajman for 2015 reached AED359million — an increase of 19% from 2014 — according to tourism statistics released on Wednesday by the Ajman Tourism Development Department (ATDD). The report showed that the number of guests in Ajman in 2015 reached 509,658, while those who spent their nights reached 1,392,406. Majority of them booked their ...

ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business As IoT (Internet of Things) technology comes of age, UAE enterprises are in an immediate need to have cutting-edge solutions that provide the expanded capabilities to back the smart devices upto optimum levels. There is an apparent room available in the industry to have enhanced networks capable of supporting the pervasive nature of IoT devices, ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Middle East’s leading oilfield services provider, AlMansoori Specialised Engineering announced over AED18 million upgrade to its Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) services, the company along with its affiliated companies; Reform Energy Services, Air Drilling Associates and Kelda Drilling Controls, worked intensively to introduce the ‘next generation automated MPD Package’, which was demonstrated at a special event ...

DUBAi / Emirates Business The international home furnishing brand, IKEA, has unveiled its new redesigned living room section at its store at Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. The global brand has chosen Abu Dhabi as one of three stores worldwide to pilot this new store solution. The ‘Make Room for Life’ project aims at creating a more realistic and inspiring shopping ...

Sharjah / Emirates Business Gulftainer, the world’s largest privately-owned, independent port operator based in the UAE, recorded a strong performance in 2015 with an overall growth of four percent across its global portfolio. Gulftainer’s operations in the UAE currently include the Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) and the Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) at Port Khalid and the Sharjah Inland Container Depot ...

Bloomberg While the world focuses on Russia’s oil-freeze talks with OPEC, there are discussions behind closed doors in the Kremlin that will have a much more significant impact on the nation’s energy industry. The petrodollars that underpin Russia’s national budget are evaporating. When crude prices were high, increasing revenue simply meant encouraging companies like Rosneft OJSC and Lukoil PJSC to ...