ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and President of Iraq, Dr Barham Salih, reviewed the prospects of promoting the fraternal relations between the two nations and accelerating cooperation across all fronts. This came in phone call Sheikh Mohamed received on Monday ...
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Arada records 35% rise in sales during 2020 to reach AED1.75b
Sharjah / WAM Arada reported a robust sales performance for 2020, as the developer benefited from a raft of project handovers and the stable Sharjah real estate market to overcome the effects of the pandemic. During a challenging year for the UAE property sector as a whole, the total value of real estate sold by Arada rises by 35 percent ...
Read More »Emirates expands its US operations
DUBAI / WAM Emirates Airline has announced it will resume non-stop services to Seattle (from February 1), Dallas and San Francisco (from March 2), offering its customers connectivity through Dubai to and from popular destinations in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The addition of these three destinations will take Emirates’ North American network to 10 destinations following the resumption ...
Read More »Empower records 560,000 electronic deals in 2020
DUBAI / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower), the world’s largest district cooling services provider, announced that, during 2020, the number of electronic transactions performed by its customers surged noticeably to reach approximately 560,000, with an increase of more than 12 percent compared to the year 2019. This reflects the company’s apparent contributions to the ‘Dubai Paperless Strategy’ that ...
Read More »Ship orders slump 50% with owners unsure over green fuel
Bloomberg Ship owners facing looming deadlines to use less-polluting fuels have slashed the number of new vessels on order because they don’t know which alternative technology to switch to. Ammonia, hydrogen, biofuels and electrification are some of the many contenders to power the world’s future merchant fleet, but most are only in the trial stage and won’t be scalable for ...
Read More »Trump’s last days bring fresh turmoil to US-China relations
Bloomberg The Trump administration’s final days are proving as confounding as ever for companies and investors stuck in the middle of an increasingly contentious US-China relationship. After a week of widespread confusion over the scope of a US ban on investments in businesses linked to China’s military, both Washington and Beijing took steps over the weekend that threaten to further ...
Read More »Brexit drags UK below US in business location ranking
Bloomberg Britain is significantly less attractive as an international business location because of Brexit but remains well positioned compared with other major economies, according to a German study. The UK slipped behind the US to second place in the latest ranking published by Germany’s Foundation for Family Businesses, though it remains ahead of the rest of its Group of Seven ...
Read More »Apple, Amazon remove Parler after use in US Capitol riots
Bloomberg Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are removing Parler from their services, part of a growing backlash after the social media network was among those used to organise last week’s riots at the Capitol. Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, while Amazon’s cloud unit decided to stop hosting the social media company. They joined Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which removed ...
Read More »Twitter shares fall 6% following Trump ban
Bloomberg Twitter Inc. shares fall 6.1% in pre-market trading after the social media platform permanently banned outgoing President Donald Trump. The San Francisco-based company confirmed its decision in a blog post, saying Trump’s tweets breached policies by risking incitement to violence. It cited Trump’s posts referring to riots in the US capital last week. Mirabaud analyst Neil Campling said the ...
Read More »Young American adults top $10trn in assets for first time
Bloomberg Despite the pandemic-induced recession of 2020, America’s young adults doubled their assets over the past four years, new data from the Federal Reserve show. This marks the first time the assets for so-called millennials have exceeded $10 trillion. But, this generation, the oldest of whom turn 40 this year, has a massive debt burden as well, according to the ...
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