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Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Delegates at this year’s Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) will have more opportunities than ever to hear some of the oil and gas industry’s most powerful executives speak in open-invite conference sessions, after organisers confirmed they will increase the number of Global Business Leader panels for 2017. Held under the patronage of ...

Bloomberg The UK government said it wants to maintain tariff-free, bureaucracy-light trade with the European Union for a period of up to two years after Brexit, a proposal cheered by British businesses but which is likely to raise eyebrows on the continent. Ahead of the publication Tuesday of the first of a series of new papers aimed at fleshing out ...

Bloomberg Hedge funds have adored the FAANGs for so long it’s no wonder that two of them—Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc.—are losing their appeal. Ken Griffin’s Citadel sold 3.4 million shares of Apple, the majority of its stake. And Viking Global Investors, led by Andreas Halvorsen, shed 9.6 million shares of Facebook, or most of its holding. These are just ...

Bloomberg The Philippines is considering potential ways to jointly develop oil and gas resources with China in a disputed part of the South China Sea, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano. Any joint ventures would conform to Philippine law and wouldn’t lead to the loss of Philippine territory, Cayetano told a House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday in ...

Bloomberg The number of new taxpayers in India more than doubled in the past five months and about $47 billion came back to the banks after the government’s cash ban brought more people into the fold of the formal economy, PM Narendra Modi said. “Black money which was hidden was forced to come to the mainstream,” Modi said in his ...

Bloomberg China had unexpected buoyancy in its economy to thank for an easing off in corporate defaults in the first half. But as growth shows signs of pulling back, the question is: will it last? Despite alarm over the risks posed by China’s daunting debt pile ticking up in the first six months, the country actually saw a drop in ...

Bloomberg South Korean President Moon Jae-in has signaled his country will no longer stay quiet as tensions escalate between the US and North Korea. In a forceful speech on Tuesday, Moon asserted the right to veto any military action against Kim Jong Un’s regime, saying that decision should be made by “ourselves and not by anyone else.” He vowed to ...

HAMBURG / WAM Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum toured the Airbus Plant in the German Province of Hamburg. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed’s four-stop tour of the giant factory premises started in the department dedicated to the assembly of the basic components of the short- and mid-range ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, paid his condolences, on Monday, to the family of the martyr, Captain Ahmed Khalifa Al Baloushi, who lost his life while serving with the Arab Coalition’s “Operation Restoring Hope,” led by Saudi Arabia, to back ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The retail sector in the UAE is a significant mainstay of the domestic economy, with retail trade expected to secure a compound annual growth rate of 4.9 percent to hit AED260 billion by 2021, according to international forecasts. The marked growth of this sector comes in coveted defiance of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and ...