Bloomberg Canada’s new Minister of International Trade Jim Carr has invited a dozen trade ministers to meet in October to discuss how to fix the World Trade Organization (WTO). But two countries have been left off the list: the US and China. The goal is to “identify concrete and tangible ways the operation and function of the WTO can be ...

Bloomberg Mark Zuckerberg is counting the cost of user disenchantment with Facebook Inc. His fortune tumbled by $16.8 billion in late trading, as shares of the social media giant slid 20 percent in New York on disappointing results. If that holds through, he will slide to sixth place from third on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It would also wipe his ...

Bloomberg Are Britons living beyond their means? That’s the question being asked by the Office for National Statistics after households saw their outgoings exceed their incomes last year for the first time in three decades. Each household spent or invested about 900 pounds ($1,187) more than they received on average — 25 billion pounds in total, according to an ONS ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Preparations are in full swing to launch KhalifaSat, the first satellite fully built in the UAE by a team of highly qualified Emirati engineers, into orbit before end of the year from the ground station in Japan aboard the rocket, H-IIA, revealed Director-General of the UAE Space Agency. ‘‘The UAE Space Agency is planning to launch ...

HODEIDAH / WAM Up to 2800 Yemenis in Ad Durayhimi District of the Hodeidah Governorate have benefitted from an extensive humanitarian airdrop operation carried out by Saudi-led Arab Coalition Forces, for second time in a week. Utilising state-of-the-art technology, including parachutes and GPS techniques, the airdrop, which included 400 food parcels, as well as mineral water provided by the Emirates ...

DUBAI / WAM DP World has signed a 20-year concession with an automatic 20-year extension with the Republic of Mali to build and operate a 1000-hectare modern logistics hub outside of Bamako, the capital and largest city of Mali. The multimodal logistics platform, Mali Logistics Hub (MLH) will have inland container depots (ICD) and Container Freight Stations (CFS) that will ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Economic confidence in the UAE and the Middle East rebounded further in the second quarter of the year and is now at its highest level since Q2 2015, despite a slowdown in the global economic recovery that started in late 2016, finds the latest edition of ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IMA Global ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) has determined three main categories of “eligible goods” for calculating Value Added Tax (VAT) on the basis of the profit margin scheme. These are second-hand goods, meaning tangible movable property that is suitable for further use as it is or after repair; antiques, i.e. goods that are over 50 years old; ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday published a consultation paper setting out its proposed regulatory framework for operators of Private Financing Platforms (PFPs) in ADGM. The consultation paper follows positive feedback received from the industry in response to the March discussion paper issued by the Financial Services Regulatory ...

Bloomberg Ireland would back any request by the UK to stay in the European Union after March 2019, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said, the first senior EU official to publicly raise the prospect of Brexit being delayed. The Irish government would “absolutely” support the British government if it sought more time for negotiations with the bloc, Coveney told BBC ...