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Bloomberg UK wages rose quicker than expected at the end of 2022, heaping pressure on the Bank of England to deliver another interest-rate increase next month. Average earnings excluding bonuses were 6.7% higher in the three months through December from the previous year, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday. That’s the fastest pace since records began in 2001, excluding ...

Bloomberg The economy lost nearly 2.5 million working days to strikes last year as Britain suffered its most severe industrial action since Margaret Thatcher was in power. The Office for National Statistics said Tuesday that 843,000 working days were lost due to labor disputes in December, making it the worst month in more than a decade. That took the total ...

Bloomberg Employment in Scotland hit a record high at the end of 2022 as tightness in the labor market spread to all corners of the UK. The portion of adults who have a job climbed to 76.6% in the three months ending December, up 2.4 percentage points from a year earlier. The figures from the Office for National Statistics on ...

  Bloomberg Norma Group SE, a German maker of hose clamps and pipe connections for everything from cars to washing machines, rejected several takeover approaches in recent months from bidders including Carlyle Group Inc., people familiar with the matter said. The company explored a potential sale with advisers toward the end of 2022, according to the people, who asked not ...

  Bloomberg Soaring inflation, higher interest rates and supply-chain snarls spurred by the war in Ukraine pushed most of the European Union’s biggest eastern economies into contraction in the fourth quarter. Poland’s economy shrank 2.4% from the previous three months — much worse than the 0.5% forecast in a Bloomberg survey — for its second non-consecutive decline last year. It ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Adnoc Drilling Company on Monday announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2022. It reported AED2.94 billion ($802 million) net profit for the twelve-month, up 33 percent year-on-year. Full year earnings before Ebitda (interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) was $1.23 billion, with a margin of over 46 percent, ...

Ras Al Khaimah / WAM The National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah (Rakbank) has announced its financial results for the year ending December 31, 2022, and the fourth quarter of 2022. The bank reported a net profit growth of 53.4% YoY for FY’22, reaching a total of AED1.163 billion, its highest in over a decade. The Q4’22 net profit was ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and Enoc have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment, development, and operation of a joint pilot project for the use of hydrogen in mobility. The MoU was signed at the World Government Summit 2023 in the presence of in the presence of HH ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Adnec group, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence, has announced the launch of Idex Next Gen for the first time during the 16th edition of Idex 2023 and the 7th edition of Navdex 2023. The exhibitions will be held under the patronage of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan from February ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) has successfully priced its second Sustainable Sukuk – a landmark $1 billion 5.5-year senior issue with a profit rate of 4.80 percent per annum, representing a spread of 102.4 bps over 5-Year US Treasuries. The sukuk was issued in line with DIB’s Sustainable Finance Framework, which was created to facilitate financing of ...