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Dormant Argentina IPO market prepares for 2018 awakening

Bloomberg Argentina’s IPO market hasn’t had quite the jolt some investors were expecting. A year and a half after President Mauricio Macri took office, new share sales are slow to take off. Just one company has completed an international initial public offering. The delay comes as private companies wait for their valuations to rise, while taking advantage of their low ...

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AT&T plans major organizational changes after deal

Bloomberg AT&T Inc. is planning major organizational changes to follow the $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., including a redefined role for Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson, as the telecommunications giant morphs into a media company. Stephenson will oversee a pair of CEOs who will independently manage the company’s telecommunications and media businesses, according to people familiar with the ...

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New initiative launched to boost financial planning, cash forecasts

DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources have launched the first phase of the ‘e-link’ project between the Financial Planning System, the electronic federal budget, “Hyperion”, and the Human Resources Information Management System in the Federal Government, “Bayanati”. The project has been launched to enhance financial planning and cash forecasts, support ...

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RTA chief in France to inspect works on new trains for Dubai Metro

DUBAI / WAM A delegation from the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) headed by Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA, visited France to check on the progress of work in the manufacturing of 50 new trains for the Dubai Metro. These trains will be supplied by the French Alstom Company as part ...

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Dubai calls on global innovative firms to address key challenges

DUBAI / WAM Dubai is calling on the world’s most innovative companies to help find solutions to key strategic challenges as registration opens for the third cycle of Dubai Future Accelerators, the world’s fastest growing business accelerators programme, which is run by Dubai Future Foundation. The third cycle, to be held over nine weeks starting in October this year, will ...

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SCCI gears up for Costa Rica visit to enhance bilateral ties

SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has announced that a high-level delegation is preparing for a visit to the Republic of Costa Rica, to enhance bilateral economic relations and serve mutual interest to achieve more growth and prosperity between the two countries. The delegation will include officials from a number of government agencies, representatives of ...

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ADU aims to align education with labor market needs

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi University’s (ADU) Career Development Department has begun preparations to implement a comprehensive plan of events, activities and initiatives that enhance career opportunities for graduates, and provide them, even before graduating, with support and guidance they need to succeed on career paths. The plan will include interactive training programs and specialized workshops aimed at ...

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Second Russian’s role at Trump Jr meeting raises host of questions

Bloomberg The meeting that Donald Trump Jr. had in June 2016 with a woman billed as a Russian government lawyer included at least one other person with long-standing ties to Russia. Rinat Akhmetshin, who once served in a Soviet counterintelligence unit, told the Associated Press that he was also there, along with a translator. The revelation adds to the questions ...

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Asia’s biggest buyout sees GIC-backed firm get $11.6bn

Bloomberg A Chinese consortium agreed to pay S$16 billion ($11.6 billion) for Global Logistic Properties Ltd., the warehouse operator backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, in Asia’s biggest buyout. GLP accepted the takeover offer from a management-backed group that includes private equity firms Hillhouse Capital Management and Hopu Investment Management. The group, which also includes founder Ming Mei’s SMG, Bank ...

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Hottest commodity in China may start to cool before long

Bloomberg These are great times for China’s gargantuan steel industry as product prices soar to multi-year highs, mills’ profits swell and speculators stake out record positions in futures markets in the country that makes half of global supply. They could be over soon. While demand in Asia’s top economy has remained strong, “as the property market cools and investment growth ...

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