Asia and the Pacific are recognized for leadership in global output, trade, and development. The region has a new opportunity to lead on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a multidimensional, multisectoral, and multiagency undertaking. In 2016, the first year of implementation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), our region faces significant challenges: prioritizing SDG implementation; pace and sequencing; …

BLOOMBERG Emerging-market currencies and stocks rose for a third day as Chinese inflation data spearheaded an advance in the nation’s equities and a gauge of the dollar extended losses. Ukrainian bonds gained the most in a month after the country’s premier resigned. China’s stocks rose the most this month amid signs of a pickup in industrial demand. Sberbank PJSC led …

ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS The Emirates Securities Market Index has decreased by -0.17% to close at 4496.32 points. Accordingly the Market Capitalization has lost AED 1.21 billion attaining AED 729.36 billion. A total of 0.95 Billion Shares were traded with a total value of AED 1.04 billion during the trading session of 11-04-2016 through 10346 transactions. The number of companies which …