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  Bloomberg For a few hours last week, British consumers were asked to make a choice: keep consuming power as normal or just turn the lights off. Hundreds of thousands of households took part in the effort to reduce electricity demand during a couple of hours when energy supplies were forecast to be particularly tight. There was a financial incentive ...

Bloomberg US regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla Inc.’s self-driving car claims, the latest effort by watchdogs to scrutinize the actions of the world’s second-richest person. The review is part of an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission probe of the company’s statements about its Autopilot driver-assistance system, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who ...

Bloomberg The Mercosur trade group and the European Union will reach a trade agreement soon, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said in Buenos Aires, during German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to the South American nation. The trade bloc, which also consists of Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, is keen to finalize the long-negotiated deal, Fernandez said, adding that he has spoken to ...

  Bloomberg Europe’s biggest semiconductor-equipment maker ASML Holding NV said an agreement between the Netherlands, the US and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China shouldn’t have a “material effect” on forecast it has published for this year. “In combination with the current market situation, we do not expect these measures to have a material effect ...

  Bloomberg The boss of Britain’s largest sandwich-maker says price negotiations with supermarkets have become so strained amid the inflation crisis that sometimes walking away is the only option. “In certain cases we’ve said to people ‘If you’re not prepared to take this price, we’re not prepared to supply you’,” said Dalton Philips, Chief Executive Officer at Greencore Plc, speaking ...

Bloomberg Oil rose along with many other commodities as optimism over Chinese demand countered concerns over a global economic slowdown. West Texas Intermediate increased as much as 1.5% on Friday, and were heading for a third straight weekly gain. Trafigura group sees “a lot of upside” for oil markets as pent-up demand is unleashed, esp cially as Chinese consumption rebounds. ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM “Extreme Weekends” has started at the Sheikh Zayed Festival in Al Wathba area. Attended by an intense crowd, the annual event is set to become another hit for visitors this year. The first day of the show welcomed motor cross and car drifting sports fans with impressive stunts and routines performed by international motorcyclists and ...

  Dubai / WAM A total of 2,786 real estate transactions worth over AED8.4 billion were conducted during the week ending January 27, according to figures released by the Dubai Land Department (DLD). The DLD report showed that 285 plots were sold for AED1.7 billion, while 2,043 apartments and villas were purchased for AED4.43 billion. The top three transactions were ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has announced that it supplied 203,000 tonnes of waste to other industries as feedstock in 2022. The amount was almost double the volume EGA generated during 2022, reducing stockpiles from previous years, and a 40 percent increase on 2021 as industries recovered from Covid-19. EGA has worked for more than a ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Adnec group announced Edge group as the strategic partner for the 16th edition of the International Defence Exhibition (Idex) and the 7th edition of the Naval Defence Exhibition (Navdex) 2023, which will be held under the patronage of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Organised in cooperation with the UAE Ministry of Defence, ...