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London / AFP Britain’s annual inflation rate rose in January to its highest level for a year, buoyed by the higher prices for clothing and alcohol, official data showed Tuesday. The 12-month Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.3 percent last month, after registering 0.2 percent in December, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement. Alcohol and ...

MOSCOW / Bloomberg Neither a recession nor a collapse in revenue has yet been enough to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin that it’s time to join with OPEC in cutting oil output to boost prices. His reasons may be pragmatic rather than political. As Russia’s oil minister meets his Saudi Arabian counterpart in Doha on Tuesday, the world’s second-largest crude ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in his capacity as Ruler of Abu Dhabi, has issued an Emiri decree appointing His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, as Chairman of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi. In another ...

ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Aldar Properties, Abu Dhabi’s leading listed property development, investment and management company, on Monday announced net profit of AED 2.6 billion for the financial year ended 31 December 2015, up 13% from AED 2.3 billion in 2014. Net profit for the fourth quarter rose 4% to AED 750 million, from AED 718 million in Q4 ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Exports, the export development agency of the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai, is set to connect exporters in the UAE to new and strategic markets across Europe, Asia and Africa in 2016 after its target sectors and overseas offices across six countries brought remarkable outcomes in 2015. With local exporters and manufacturers venturing successfully ...

Sunaina Rana / EMIRATES BUSINESS If you had been to the recent International Education Show (IES) in Sharjah, you would have been amazed to see a bevy of leading universities and visitors flocking to the event. It was a massive draw. Witnessing the show from close quarters, it became quite apparent that Sharjah is on the fast track of becoming ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Central Bank of the UAE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in Mumbai, to consider a Currency Swap Agreement between the two countries. Mubarak Rashed Al Mansoori, Governor of the UAE Central Bank signed the MoU on behalf of the UAE and Governor Dr Raghuram Rajan signed ...

Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), revealed that the total expenditure budget approved for RTA in 2016 amounted to AED7.609 billion comprising an Operational Budget in the order of AED3.913 billion, and an Infrastructure Projects Budget estimated at AED3.696 billion.

Abu Dhabi / EMIRATES BUSINESS The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, has announced the successful initiation of its Concentrated Solar Power on Demand Demonstration pilot at the Masdar Institute Solar Platform. The demonstration is intended to show that the novel single-tank thermal energy storage system may prove ...

Singapore / AFP Oil prices turned lower again on Monday as Iran prepared to ship its first consignment of the commodity since sanctions were lifted, reigniting worries over a global supply glut. Both main contracts had soared more than 10 percent Friday on a report that the OPEC producers’ club was open to output cuts that could drag prices up ...