Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. shares climbed to a new 20-year high as investors rally behind founder Masayoshi Son‘s more cautious strategy of selling assets, paring debt and buying back shares. The Tokyo-based company’s stock gained more than 3% to 7,244 yen, the highest level since March of 2000 in the midst of the dot-com boom. The stock had already hit ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The number of subscribers in telecommunications services in the UAE, including mobile phones, landlines and Internet, grew to 21.808 million by the end of August, 1 percent up compared to the preceding month. The latest statistics released by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) indicated an increase in the number of mobile phone subscribers to 16.685 million ...

Bloomberg Nearly 200 countries are nearing a legally-binding agreement to reduce pollution from the world’s cargo ships, a step forward after two years of talks on how the industry should clean up its emissions. A series of virtual meetings will start on Monday hosted by the United Nations shipping agency over a new rating system that will measure the carbon ...