Bloomberg Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), the Middle East’s biggest plane-leasing company, said its board and shareholders approved an additional $300 million to repurchase bond. It will be conducted through open-market transactions, the company said. To date, Dubai Aerospace has repurchased $295 million of principal amount of its publicly traded bonds under the previous authorisation of $300 million. The company currently …

Bloomberg Total holiday shopping this year might be one for the record books, but you wouldn’t know it looking at this past weekend’s numbers. More than 165 million Americans shopped either in stores or online during the five-day period from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday — more than expected, but well below the 174 million shoppers during the same period …

Bloomberg Saudi Aramco will seek more acquisitions to speed its expansion in refining and petrochemicals as Saudi Arabia pushes ahead with plans to diversify its economy from reliance on sales of crude. The purchases will be in addition to Aramco’s planned purchase of government-controlled chemicals producer Saudi Basic Industries Corp, Aramco Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said on Tuesday in …