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  Bloomberg Sempra Energy says it’s more interested in making money from energy projects in Latin America than buying back shares. The San Diego, California-based utility owner said it’s scaling back its target for buying shares by $500 million and will instead use the cash to help build a $2 billion natural gas pipeline in Mexico. In fact, its Mexican ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Executive Committee at the Executive Council, headed by Saeed Eid Al Ghafli, Chairman of the Executive Office, approved during its meeting an array of development projects in collaboration with the private sector worth a total of AED 470 million, in addition to making a number of decisions and adopting vital projects in the Emirate. In ...

  DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Dubai Land Department’s (DLD) Transactions Report, issued by Real Estate Research and Studies Department, announced that the total amount of real estate transactions recorded in the Emirate in the first six months of the current year reached a total of AED 113 billion, achieved through 28,251 sales, mortgages and other transactions. The report reveals that property ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai has a huge opportunity to boost growing real estate investment from Chinese investors in the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, developers and property marketers have been told. Uncertainty in Europe following the Brexit vote could attract a new wave of Chinese investment in Dubai based on the Emirate’s offer of quality new ...

  Ankara / AFP Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday warned against exacting revenge on supporters of the failed coup, as Ankara arrested top generals in a relentless crackdown that has sparked global alarm. Erdogan has denounced the coup bid, which left more than 300 dead on all sides, as a treacherous bid to oust him from power devised ...

  Bloomberg Asia is embracing bullet trains like never before. Singapore and Malaysia signed an agreement on Tuesday that will bring a high-speed rail link to Kuala Lumpur by 2026. The long-envisioned plan, six years behind an earlier target completion date, follows a $5.5 billion project already underway in Indonesia. India last year chose Japan to build a $15 billion ...

  Bloomberg Turkey’s central bank slowed the pace of interest rate cuts at its meeting on Tuesday after the failed coup attempt triggered a sell-off in the currency and sovereign debt. The bank lowered its overnight lending rate by 25 basis points, which fell short of the 50-basis-point cuts it delivered during the past three meetings but matched the median ...

  Bloomberg Truckmakers, including Daimler AG and Paccar Inc.’s DAF Trucks, agreed to pay European Union regulators a record €2.93bn ($3.24 bn) in fines for fixing truck prices over 14 years. Daimler got the largest penalty of €1.01 billion and DAF will pay €752.7 million as part of a settlement with the European Commission that cut potential fines by at ...

  Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund scrapped its forecast for a pickup in global growth this year, citing Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, and warned the damage could worsen if confidence falters among investors and companies. The IMF sees global gross domestic product rising 3.1 percent this year, down from April’s 3.2 percent projection and equal to growth ...

  Kiev / AFP Ukraine said on Tuesday seven of its soldiers had been killed and 14 wounded in “very heated” fighting that marked the bloodiest clashes with pro-Russian separatists in two months. The announcement — the highest daily death toll since Ukraine reported seven of its soldiers dying on May 24 — follows a flurry of talks between world ...