Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has released its first set of tutorial videos that use sign language to showcase DEWA’s three major services to support hearing-impaired customers. The move supports the Smart Dubai initiative, launched by Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and DEWA’s commitment ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Canada may be forced to throw cold water on a rally in the Canadian dollar that’s threatening to derail the country’s economic growth. The central bank’s interest-rate decision this week will need to factor in a currency that’s gained the most among developed nations since policy makers helped get the rally going at their Jan. 20 ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s real strengthened, defying a slump in emerging-market currencies, as reports that President Dilma Rousseff could be directly implicated in a widening corruption scandal fueled speculation she’ll be ousted. Investors who think that a new government would be better positioned to lift the country out of its economic morass sent the real up 0.4 percent to 3.7722 per dollar ...