Bloomberg Procter & Gamble Co. agreed to buy Merck KGaA’s consumer-health business for 3.4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) to bolster growth, betting that vitamins and decongestants can hasten its comeback. The deal gives the maker of Crest toothpaste a stable of products with sales growth of 6 percent in the past two years, double the pace of traditional consumer goods ...

Bloomberg There are many depictions of a future in which we’ve mastered the art of manipulating the opacity of glass. Even in real life, sunglasses can adapt to the intensity of sunlight. So why, one might ask, can’t we have that in our homes, or at work? The wait may soon be over. The tinted world of tomorrow is coming, ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Investments has announced the decision to distribute 12 percent cash dividend to its shareholders for the financial year ending on December 31, 2017. A proposal to this effect was approved by the shareholders at the company’s 22nd Annual General Meeting on Wednesday. The company presented its 2017 financial results, which revealed a net profit of AED1,001.6 ...