Bloomberg L’Oreal SA shares tumbled as a drop in North American sales raised concerns that a makeup boom fuelled by beauty bloggers and selfies has lost steam. The stock fell as much as 4.9 percent in Paris trading, the most in three years. The sales decline in a crucial region came even as demand from China lifted the world’s biggest ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a further follow-on pipeline infrastructure investment agreement with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. GIC will invest $600 million in select Adnoc crude pipeline infrastructure, following BlackRock, KKR and the Abu Dhabi Retirement Pensions and Benefits Fund (ADRPBF) who earlier this year ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) imposed financial penalties of $299,300,000 and $15,275,925 (AED56,062,645) on Abraaj Investment Management Limited (AIML) and Abraaj Capital Limited (ACLD) respectively. In a press statement, DFSA said that the investigation, which began in January 2018, was complex and spanned multiple jurisdictions. Bryan Stirewalt, Chief Executive of the DFSA, said, “The size of ...