Donald Trump’s big win in Nevada, with Marco Rubio pulling even with or just ahead of Ted Cruz, fuels the conventional wisdom that the Republican presidential contest is now down to a two-man race. However, this year the conventional wisdom has been consistently wrong. Next Tuesday will test that two-man theory. Ted Cruz, despite third-place finish in South Carolina and ...

International attention has once again closed in on the South China Sea over claims that China has deployed HQ-9 surface-to-air missile batteries to Woody Island. Reports suggest that US intelligence sources have confirmed the presence of these mobile batteries, whereas satellite images of Woody Island earlier this month showed no such batteries. China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, has downplayed concerns ...

ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS The Emirates Securities Market Index has decreased by -1.08% to close at 4255.16 points. Accordingly the Market Capitalization has lost AED 7.56 Billion attaining AED 690.24 Billion. A total of 1.18 Billion Shares were traded with a total value of 1.1 Billion AED during the trading session of 24-02-2016 through 10870 transactions. The number of companies which ...