Emirates Business Global leaders will meet in Dubai for the Africa Legal Network’s (ALN) 3rd Annual International Conference on October 5-6 at the Park Hyatt, Dubai, UAE. The invite-only event will bring together government representatives and business professionals to discuss the greatest opportunities for foreign investment in Africa. The conference comes as total non-oil trade between the two regions ...
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Henkel delivers strong Q2 performance
Emirates Business In the second quarter of 2016, Henkel generated organic sales growth — adjusted for foreign exchange and acquisitions/divestments — of 3.2 percent. Nominally, sales decreased by 0.9 percent to 4,654 million euros due to a negative foreign exchange impact of 5.3 percent. “Henkel delivered a strong business performance in the second quarter. We generated solid organic sales ...
Read More »Nissan looks into ‘future’ of mobility
Dubai / Emirates Business Nissan is conducting a series of real- world experiments and trials to bring future mobility scenarios to life through several “Living Labs†underway at Nissan Future Lab. The “Living Lab†research provides user data to help Nissan anticipate and evolve to meet future transportation needs. The difference between traditional research methods and Nissan’s “Living Labs†...
Read More »â€˜Hues of happiness’ to return to Dubai in November
Dubai / Emirates Business The Color Run™ presented by Daman’s ActiveLife will return on November 12 with a fun and fresh new twist, as its Tropicolor World Tour bursts into Dubai with a 5k stay-cation packed full of island-style colors, music and unforgettable memories. The Tropicolor World Tour takes the world-renowned experience that Dubai’s Color Runners already love to ...
Read More »Oil halts advance below $46 after 3-day gain
Bloomberg Oil halted its advance below $46 a barrel after the biggest three-day gain since April as Nigeria’s oil minister signaled the prospect of production cuts from OPEC was unlikely. Futures slid as much as 0.8 percent in New York after rising 9.7 percent the previous three sessions. Optimism by Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Emmanuel Kachikwu that ...
Read More »India gauges auctions for wind power to maximize investment
Bloomberg India’s preparing to tender 10 gigawatts of wind power by 2019 in auctions intended to help meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious clean-energy targets. The first 1-gigawatt tender is planned for October, Varsha Joshi said in an interview with Bloomberg News. She’s joint secretary at India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Power, the agency tasked with realizing Modi’s ...
Read More »Gas glut upends global trade flows as buyers find leverage
Bloomberg The market for liquefied natural gas is about to attract more players and more trading as new supply from the U.S. and Australia strengthens buyers’ bargaining power. Historically, LNG has been sold on long-term contracts that guaranteed buyers supply and helped producers finance liquefaction plants at a time when less of the product was shipped. Now, a gas ...
Read More »Gas exports to Iraq to start next month: Iran
Reuters Iran, holder of the world’s biggest natural gas reserves, says it will start exports to Iraq in the next month, more than a year later than it originally planned. Shipments will start at 7 million cubic meters a day to supply a power plant in Baghdad, Hamid Reza Araghi, director of the National Iranian Gas Co., said in ...
Read More »China launches world first quantum satellite
AFP China launched the world’s first quantum satellite on Tuesday, state media reported, in an effort to harness the power of particle physics to build an “unhackable” system of encrypted communications. The launch took place at 1:40 am in the southwestern Gobi Desert, the official Xinhua news service said, and comes as the US, Japan and others also seek ...
Read More »China to drop quota for ‘Shenzhen-Hong Kong link’
Bloomberg Chinese authorities are planning not to impose an aggregate quota on trading via the Shenzhen-Hong Kong stock exchange link, according to two people familiar with the matter. Daily trading will still be subject to a cap, the people said. Officials are also considering removing the overall limit for equity trades through Hong Kong’s existing link with Shanghai, one ...
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