Abu Dhabi /Â WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, delivered a speech at the conclusion of the Mohamed bin Zayed Majlis for Future Generations, a gathering for the youth being held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. He conveyed the greetings of ...
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Sharjah / WAM Amlak Finance PJSC, a leading specialized real estate financier in the Middle East, on Wednesday announced its Full Year Financial Results for the year ended December 31, 2016. Amlak reported net profits of AED 107 million at the end of December 2016, a decrease of 20% compared to AED 135 million in 2015. The company’s total revenues, ...
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KABUL / AP Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by the IS group. The attack on the 400-bed military facility, located near two civilian hospitals in Kabul’s heavily-guarded diplomatic quarter, set off clashes with security forces that lasted several ...
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Bloomberg Indian stocks are leading gains in Asia this year, the rupee has recouped almost all its losses since Donald Trump’s US election win and foreigners have pumped $2.4 billion into the country’s bonds and equities. As investors wait for the results of one of Narendra Modi’s biggest electoral tests since he came to power in 2014, there’s a ...
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Bloomberg Pakistani tycoon Arif Habib said Asia’s best stock market rally in the past year may extend a further 20 percent led by banks, fertilizer and energy compa- nies, rejecting concerns that the market has been supported by speculators. As industries and the economy grow, Habib, the Karachi-born financier who has seen his fortune swell after his start as ...
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Bloomberg Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV is considering shifting manufacturing of its Panda city car to low-wage Poland to create production space for more upscale models in Italy, according to people familiar with the matter, as earnings pressure on European automakers mounts amid stalling growth. Carmakers fighting for customers at the Geneva International Motor Show this week are aware that ...
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Bloomberg President Donald Trump threw his weight behind a House Republican plan to replace Obamacare, even as conservatives mounted their own savage attack on the bill, with one Republican senator declaring it “dead on arrival†in the Senate. Trump held a White House meeting with the House Republican vote-counting team to rally them behind the bill, setting up an ...
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Bloomberg Long before President Donald Trump has made good on his pledge to spend $1 trillion on US infrastructure projects — including using only American metal in new pipelines — investors already are seeing a big payoffs from domestic steel producers. The VanEck Vectors Steel ETF delivered an 82 percent return in the past year as shares surged in ...
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Bloomberg Central London office values will probably fall as much as 20 percent this year as the economy slows and investors are deterred by uncertainty in the face of the UK’s exit from Europe and increased business rates, according to Deutsche Bank AG’s asset management unit. Spending on properties in the British capital slowed sharply before and after the ...
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Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday visited Middle East Rail 2017, organised by the Federal Transport Authority – Land and Maritime, in cooperation with the Ministry of Infrastructure Development. During his visit to the two-day event, which is being held at the Dubai World ...
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