Abu Dhabi / WAM The automotive trade index in Abu Dhabi has maintained its positive momentum achieving 5 percent growth during the first ten months of 2019, compared to the same period in 2018. According to statistics in a report issued by the Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi, local car sales jumped in value to AED28.66 billion from January to the end ...

Bloomberg India’s consumer price inflation hit a more than five-year high, boosting the case for the central bank to keep interest rates on hold for longer and possibly putting at risk its accommodative stance. Data on Monday showed inflation breached the upper end of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 2%-6% target band as it accelerated to 7.35% in December ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said that Opec and its allies remain focused on using production cuts to reduce oil inventories to normal levels, undeterred by the flare up of political tensions in the Middle East. Oil prices have erased all of this year’s rally, which saw Brent crude surge to a three-month high of almost $72 a barrel. Opec ...