Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Development Bank (EDB), a key financial enabler of the country’s economic diversification and industrial transformation agenda, has succesfully closed its $750 million five-year bond issue, priced at a fixed re-offer yield of 1.639 percent per annum in the Regulation S markets. This was the second USD transaction issued under EDB’s $3 billion Euro Medium Term ...

Ajman / WAM Abdullah Al Muwaiji, Chairman of the Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry, discussed with Jaan Reinhold, Ambassador of Estonia to the UAE, prospects of economic collaboration and ways to boost bilateral trade between two nations. This came as part of the ambassador’s visit to the chamber to explore ways to benefit from the investment opportunities the two ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The honourable Swiss Ambassador to the UAE, HE Massimo Baggi, visits Mohammed Rasool Khoory & Sons newly opened Rolex Boutique at The Galleria Al Maryah Island. The honourable ambassador was received at the Boutique by Yousef Al Khoori, CEO of Mohammed Rasool Khoory & Sons. The new boutique offers a comprehensive Rolex experience. It provides ...

Dubai / WAM According to Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2021, the UAE ranks first in the Mena region and second globally in overall business skills, only after Luxemburg. This year’s study draws on performance data since the pandemic’s onset from more than 77 million learners on the platform to benchmark skills proficiency across business, technology, and data science for over ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi University (ADU) has retained its position in the top 701-750 universities globally in the prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings for 2022 for the fourth year in a row while continuing to significantly improve its position on various indicators. The university has improved its score in different key indicators. Compared to previous performance, ...

Consumer advocates are cheering Amazon’s quiet decision to stop mandating arbitration for most customer disputes. The online retail giant, like other vendors, has heretofore included in its terms of service a ban on lawsuits. Without making a public announcement, the company has switched gears. We might be cheering too soon. Even though Amazon had little choice — more on that ...

As much as the US pines for the good old days of global semiconductor supremacy, Japan feels its loss of glory even more. Once a dominant name in electronic components, the nation has been overtaken by South Korea, Taiwan, and, more recently, China. Yet Tokyo may have a viable plan to revitalise its domestic sector. “Unlike the purely domestic, independent ...

One of the biggest questions hanging over the US economy right now is whether the government is spending too much money. Some prominent economists are warning it’s time to pump the brakes. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package came on top of $3.1 trillion in similar outlays back in 2020; and now the president is planning at least ...

President Joe Biden’s recently unveiled budget marks a new era in US economic policy making. Decades of trickle-down tax cuts are out the window; Biden is betting that trickle-up economics will deliver the kind of sustained and equitable growth we all want. But that’s a dangerously short-sighted strategy that in the long term will create far more stagnation than a ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra Region, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), launched the largest coral reef rehabilitation project in the region, including more than one million colonies of coral reef through a replanting programme, with the aim of increasing ...