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Bloomberg Bayer AG’s $63 billion Monsanto purchase has suffered regulatory delays, mounting legal claims and now will yield lower earnings for the year than earlier forecast. Still, the company’s CEO says he has “no regrets.” The German company lost out on revenue from Monsanto’s busy spring season, when farmers in the Northern Hemisphere plant the bulk of their crops, because ...

Bloomberg The British and German governments have abandoned key Brexit demands, potentially easing the path for the UK to strike a deal with the European Union, people familiar with the matter said. The pound rose. Germany is ready to accept a less detailed agreement on the UK’s future economic and trade ties with the EU in a bid to get ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi on Tuesday hosted the ministerial meeting of the Joint Committee between the UAE and Chad, under the co-chairmanship of Dr. Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State, and Ashtah Saleh Daman, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, African Integration, International Cooperation and Diaspora Affairs. Dr. Al Jaber stated that the political ties ...

DUBAI / WAM DMCC, the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise, has announced the official opening of its representative office operated by the German Arabian Advisory GmbH in Dusseldorf, Germany. Opening a representative office in one of Germany’s economic and trade centres, brings DMCC to the doorstep of European clients, and will ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE spends more on direct emergency humanitarian aid to Yemen in 2018 than any country on earth, according to the Financial Tracking Services. Established in 1992 as a follow-up to UN General Assembly Resolution 46/182, FTS is managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to track humanitarian aid flow. The ...

Dubai / WAM Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al-Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, on Tuesday officially inaugurated the Middle East region’s premier B2B event for the natural stone, marble and ceramics industry. Welcoming recognised industry brand names from around the world, Dr Thani Al-Zeyoudi toured the exhibition and met many company representatives who have gathered in Dubai for the ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies against “recklessly” attacking the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major holdout of rebels in the country’s seven-year-old civil war. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave ...

Bloomberg China is exploring a merger between two of the nation’s three wireless carriers to speed up the development of 5G mobile services amid a race with the US over the technology, according to people familiar with the matter. The country’s top leaders are reviewing a proposal to combine China United Network Communications Group Co. and China Telecommunications Corp. but ...

Bloomberg Typhoon Jebi swept through western Japan on Tuesday as the strongest tropical cyclone to come ashore in 25 years, causing widespread power outages and flooding the region’s main airport. One person was reported killed. The storm paralysed the country’s second-largest population center around Osaka, with companies forced to temporarily close their plants, and power cut to more than 800,000 ...

Bloomberg The US-China trade war threatens to make September a very slow month at ED Opto Electrical Lighting Co.’s auto-parts factory in the eastern Chinese city of Zhenjiang. With President Donald Trump slapping tariffs on items like car gaskets and ignition wiring sets in July, American buyers of the company’s LED car lights pushed hard over the summer to get ...