Dubai / WAM Deyaar Development, one of Dubai’s leading property developers and real estate service providers, announced its unaudited financial results for the first half of 2022. The company achieved a remarkable increase of 196% in net profit to reach AED66.9 million for the six months ended June 30, compared to AED22.6 million for the same period in 2021. ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The central bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has decided to raise the Base Rate applicable to the Overnight Deposit Facility (ODF) by 75 basis points, effective from July 28. This decision was taken following the US Federal Reserve Board’s announcement on July 27, to increase the Interest on reserve balances (IORB) by 75 basis points. ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Response Plus Holding (RPM), a subsidiary of ADX-listed Alpha Dhabi, has reported a strong performance in the half-year results ending June 30, announcing a net profit of AED20.6 million in the first half of 2022, compared to AED12.5 million during the same period in 2021. Response Plus Holding has achieved AED162.6 million in revenue in ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Healthcare Programme, an initiative by the Emirati Talent Competitiveness Council (Nafis), has begun registering UAE nationals with, at least, high school degrees. The initiative aims to attract 2,000 nationals to the healthcare sector in 2022, while continuing the process until reaching the target of attracting 10,000 nationals to the sector by 2026. The programme ...

The war in Ukraine is, let’s admit it, weird. Russian citizens can, at least theoretically, travel to Ukraine for business or pleasure, though now — only since June — they need visas. The belligerents are parties to a recent deal ensuring safe grain exports. Russian gas keeps flowing to Europe through Ukraine’s pipeline system, albeit in reduced volumes. Countries that ...

Spirit Airlines Inc is now dancing with only one suitor. A high-stakes shareholder vote over the low-cost carrier’s proposed merger with Frontier Group Holdings Inc appeared to come down to the wire, with Spirit pausing the proceedings at midday to allow for a few extra hours of negotiations. In the end, despite the additional time and four earlier delays in ...

  For a market that has typically been seen as concentrating on the future, investors can sometimes take a surprisingly backward view. Consider their upbeat reaction to Alphabet Inc’s earnings, reflected in the stock’s 5% jump on July 27. As encouraging as it might be that second-quarter revenue came close to what analysts expected — although the 13% growth rate ...

  Bangladesh is seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Pakistan is expected to receive its own $1.2 billion rescue deal soon. Neither wants to end up another Sri Lanka. The island nation was pulled into a vortex of empty dollar coffers, popular anger over shortages of food, fuel and medicines, political chaos and a still-deepening economic funk. ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE cut its delivery goal and slowed a ramp up in production of its best-selling narrow-body model as supply-chain issues afflicting everything from engines to microchips show no sign of easing. The world’s biggest planemaker now aims to hand over around 700 aircraft in 2022, compared with an earlier target of 720, it said in a statement. ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc’s Spain-based cabin crew plan to strike for four days a week over the next five months in a major escalation of a dispute over pay at Europe’s largest discount carrier. The SITCPLA and USO unions have called 24-hour walkouts from August 8 until January 7, according to a statement. A SITCPLA representative said it had “no ...