Bloomberg Oil rises for the fifth straight week with the global energy crunch set to boost demand for crude as stockpiles decline from the US to China. Futures in New York gained 2.8% this week. The global benchmark Brent settled at the highest in nearly three for the second day in a row. Global onshore crude supplies sank by almost ...

Bloomberg The record spike in energy prices could hardly have come at a worse time for Europe’s ambitious new climate plan, with politicians just beginning to talk about how they’re going to implement the world’s most sweeping emissions-cutting strategy. The energy crisis is threatening double-digit increases in consumer electricity bills months before the winter freeze and it’s also squeezing industrial ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Emirates Development Bank (EDB), a key financial enabler of country’s economic diversification and industrial transformation agenda, signed a Memoradum of Understanding (MoU) with Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the Menat (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region, to offer a credit guarantee scheme for SMEs in the UAE. The MoU with Emirates ...