Bloomberg Amid all the precariousness of Brexit and talk of the death of the high street, a humble clothing seller counters the pessimism as one of the UK’s best-performing blue chips of 2019. Next Plc shares are up 44 percent year-to-date, the second-biggest gainer on the benchmark FTSE 100 index. The stock held onto those gains as the company said ...

Bloomberg London Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, saw off an attempt by environmental groups to block construction of a third runway that it says is needed to boost flights and compete with rival hubs trying to steal its traffic. Construction, which was challenged by Friends of the Earth, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and other groups after the UK government approved the ...

SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah’s 2018 non-oil GDP hit AED89 billion, according to an analytical report on the results of Sharjah’s economy in 2018 issued by Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD), with all non-oil sectors accounting for 91.9 percent of the GDP. The report indicated an increase in the volume of general production in the emirate in 2018 to about ...