Dubai / Emirates Business Frank de Winne, the Belgian astronaut, led a university roadshow in the UAE this week as part of Next Gen Space Initiative and the UAE’s first Belgian Week. The Next Gen initiative, designed to educate and inspire youth on space, is supporting the build-up campaign towards the Global Space Congress, which will be held in …

  Bloomberg Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said the UK economy will grow more slowly than previously forecast in 2017 and the government will need to borrow more over the next five years, as he laid out the framework for a post-Brexit Britain. Outlining his first Autumn Statement to Parliament on Wednesday, five months to the day after Britain …

  Bloomberg Filings for unemployment benefits in the U.S. rebounded last week from a four-decade low while remaining consistent with a firm labor market. Jobless claims rose by 18,000 to 251,000 in the period ended Nov. 19, a Labor Department report showed Wednesday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for 250,000 applications. In the previous week that included …