Bloomberg An economic development director at Amazon.com Inc. isn’t happy about a Washington Post report that the e-commerce giant is in advanced talks with a Washington suburb about being the location for its second headquarters. In a recent tweet, Amazon’s Mike Grella addressed “the genius leaking info,” saying: “You’re not doing Crystal City, VA any favours. And stop treating the ...

Bloomberg Britain is urging the European Union to support a global carbon market for emissions from airlines, a move that would probably supersede the bloc’s own trading program. Aviation is too big of an industry to be covered piecemeal by regional pollution rules, according to Liz Sugg, the UK’s aviation minister. Flights within the union are covered by the EU’s ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The results of macroeconomic and sectoral indexes reflect a positive economic performance in Abu Dhabi, particularly at the level of non-oil activities, during Q2 of 2018, confirming rising levels of investor confidence and business optimism about the emirate’s economic outlook. This is revealed by Q2 economic follow-up report of results of the emirate’s macroeconomic and sectoral ...