Bloomberg Dyson Ltd. continues to prove making high-priced vacuum cleaners is a lucrative and growing business. The closely held UK firm said total sales grew 45 percent in 2016, to 2.5 billion pounds ($3.12 billion), largely due to demand for a new line of battery-powered cordless cleaners. The models, first introduced two years ago and costing about 500 pounds ...

  Reuters Kuwait’s stock exchange will introduce a new equities benchmark next year after completing a reorganization of its listed companies into new market categories, the bourse’s chief executive officer said. Boursa Kuwait, as the exchange is known, will group companies in segments according to criteria including market capitalization and average daily traded volume as part of a program to ...

  AP Stocks around the world sank on Monday on worries that the Trump White House may not be able to help businesses as much as once thought. Many of the trends that have been in place since Election Day went into sharp reverse: The dollar’s value sank against other currencies, as did bank stocks, while prices jumped for Treasury ...

  Reuters Most Middle Eastern stock markets fell in thin trade on Monday, in line with global losses, with Egypt hit particularly hard. The Saudi stock index edged down 0.3 percent in the lowest volume since September; declining shares outnumbered advancing ones by 115 to 31. Most petrochemical producers fell, with Saudi Kayan Petrochemical losing 0.7 percent. The largest dairy ...

  Bloomberg The Pentagon is poised to review — and probably approve — a new helicopter from Lockheed Martin Corp. to transport heavy cargo for the Marine Corps in a program valued at as much as $29 billion. The Defense Acquisition Board has scheduled a March 30 meeting to review whether to approve low-rate production for the first 24 of ...

  Bloomberg Emirates will adjust its offering if customer demand drops following a US ban on in-flight electronics and called for the measure to be imposed more widely. The world’s biggest long-haul carrier will be watching bookings to its U.S. destinations “very carefully” to monitor any declines, Emirates President Tim Clark said in an interview with Bloomberg TV in Dubai. ...

  Bloomberg British Airways (BA) is rolling out technology that will allow passengers to go through boarding gates at its main London Heathrow Airport hub using facial recognition. Biometric devices at the main security-screening area in Terminal 5 capture a traveler’s features along with the boarding pass, and then a facial scan at the gate verifies the person’s identity, allowing ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways Engineering become the first organisation in the Middle East to be granted with a Part21G Production Organisation Approval (POA) by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). With the new approval Etihad Airways Engineering is now entitled to manufacture interior parts such as seat covers, carpets, curtains, decals and markings alongside composite and ...

  Lucknow / AP India’s most populous state is running out of meat. After the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh this month on the back of a resounding electoral victory and named a Hindu priest-cum-politician as the state’s chief minister, the government began cracking down on illegal slaughterhouses and meat shops. The new chief minister, ...

  Bloomberg A pledge by crude producers to consider extending their output-cut deal failed to excite oil bulls, with prices dropping as more time was seen needed to trim swollen global stockpiles. Futures lost as much as percent 1.3 percent in New York, extending their third weekly drop this month as rising US supplies offset the effect of output curbs ...