ABU DHABI / WAM The Board of Directors of the UAE Central Bank held its seventh meeting for 2018 on Sunday, under the chairmanship of Khalifa Al Kindi, Chairman of the Board. During the meeting, which was held at the Central Bank’s premises, the board reviewed a memo regarding the Macro Prudential Policy stance report – Q2 2018, and instructed ...
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‘Global energy forum’ returns to Abu Dhabi in 2019
ABU DHABI / WAM The third annual Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum will be held in Abu Dhabi on January 12-13, 2019, again kicking off Abu Dhabi’s Sustainability Week. The two-day event gathers international and regional political, industry, and thought leaders to set the global energy agenda for the year and examine the longer-term geopolitical and geo-economic implications of the ...
Read More »Democratic power struggle puts heat on older white incumbents
Bloomberg He’s a white, 10-term incumbent in a majority-minority district. She’s two decades younger and wants to be the state’s first black woman elected to Congress. The Democrats vying in a Tuesday primary for a Boston area US House seat—incumbent Mike Capuano, 66, and Boston City Councilwoman Ayanna Pressley, 44—highlight a choice the party has been confronting around the country: ...
Read More »WPP’s new CEO steps out of Sorrell’s shadow ‘for change’
Bloomberg Mark Read is stepping out from the shadow of WPP Plc founder Martin Sorrell as the advertising giant’s new chief executive, and he has a clear message: change is coming. “There are no sacred cows,†Read said in a phone interview, shortly after WPP confirmed his appointment on Monday. In an unusually lengthy statement, Read promised renewal and a ...
Read More »Manufacturing growth in UK slows to 2-year low as exports falter
Bloomberg UK manufacturing growth unexpectedly slowed to the weakest in two years last month as export orders contracted amid a weakening of the global economy. IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 52.8 in August, the firm said, down from 53.8 a month earlier, and below the 53.9 forecast by economists. A gauge of new orders for exports fell below ...
Read More »Google, Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
Bloomberg For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the US. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of the two billion Mastercard holders aren’t ...
Read More »Steel major Jindal studies split as $6bn debt weighs
Bloomberg Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. is considering a breakup plan as part of a restructuring to help trim its 420 billion rupee ($6 billion) debt pile and boost investor confidence in a company that was once India’s biggest steelmaker by market value. The New Delhi-based company is looking at splitting its steel, power and international businesses into three separate ...
Read More »Korean investor in talks for WeWork UK landmark
Bloomberg Hana Financial Group Inc. is in talks to buy a landmark office property opposite the Bank of England that’s being transformed into a major WeWork Cos. co-working space, according to people with knowledge of the plan. Aermont Capital LLP, the owner of the building at One Poultry, is seeking a price of about 185 million pounds ($240 million), the ...
Read More »31,000 Yemenis benefit from ERC’s food supplies in Hodeidah
HODEIDAH / WAM More than 31,000 Yemenis have benefited from emergency relief assistance provided by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), recently, including 22,500 children, while the Authority is continuing to rehabilitate drinking water plants to meet the needs of Yemeni households. Within this context, the ERC distributed 4,500 food baskets and basic commodities to Yemeni families in the districts of ...
Read More »Campaign to promote benefit of equity futures launched
DUBAI / WAM Nasdaq Dubai and Brokerage House Securities (BHS), have begun a joint campaign to publicise the benefits to investors of trading equity futures. The campaign will include seminars at Nasdaq Dubai’s new MarketSite event space, tailor made workshops, videos detailing how to trade and other activities that raise awareness of equity futures’ unique advantages. BHS is a trading Member ...
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