Bloomberg Glencore Plc Chief Executive Officer Ivan Glasenberg said the rise of electric cars will significantly boost demand for minerals including copper and lithium in the coming decades. “The electric vehicle revolution is happening and its impact is likely to be felt faster than expected,” Glasenberg told investors at an industry conference in Barcelona. Almost all carmakers are increasing investm-ent ...

RIYADH / Reuters Saudi Arabia’s stock market outperformed a sluggish region on Sunday after US and Saudi companies signed over $200 billion of deals during the visit to Riyadh by President Donald Trump. Few of the deals involved listed Saudi companies, and many had been previously announced, or were merely memorandums of understanding that might never lead to concrete projects. ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways on Sunday announced the year-round deployment of its award-winning Airbus A380 aircraft on the Abu Dhabi to Paris route. The superjumbo, which features ‘The Residence’ – the world’s first three-room suite on a commercial airliner – will operate from July 1 on one of its twice-daily services from UAE’s capital city to the ...