Islamabad / WAM The UAE provided 116,177,794 million polio vaccines for Pakistani children aged under five from January 2014 to the end of May 2016 through the Emirates Polio Campaign, launched under directives from President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and as part of an initiative of His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown ...

  Bloomberg A seventh straight week of gains in German bunds has pushed yields on securities of all maturities to unprecedented lows — leaving about $801 billion of debt out of the reach of the European Central Bank. The surge in sovereign debt since Britain’s vote to exit the European Union last month has pushed yields on about 70 percent ...

  Bloomberg Traders will be watching the Bank of England’s first policy meeting since the Brexit referendum for fresh reasons to sell the pound. Speculation is building that BOE Governor Mark Carney will use the Thursday gathering to follow up on his pledge to take whatever steps are necessary to spur the economy. The chances of the central bank cutting ...

  Bloomberg Russia raised 52.2 billion rubles ($816 million) from the sale of Alrosa PJSC, the world’s largest diamond miner, according to a person with knowledge of the deal, the country’s biggest privatization in three years marred by economic uncertainty. Shares were priced at 65 rubles a piece, the person said, a 3.8 percent discount to the stock’s Friday closing ...

  Bloomberg Russian government bonds suffered their worst weekly performance in six months after oil retreated and accelerating inflation raised concern the central bank will be forced to slow the pace of rate cuts. Five-year OFZ bonds had their biggest five-day drop since mid-January, driving the yield up 33 basis points. While debt fell, the ruble climbed with rising crude ...

  Bloomberg The Dunkirk liquefied natural gas terminal in France received its first cargo on Friday, boosting the nation’s import installations for the fuel to four, just as a wave of new supply hits the market. Madrid Spirit, a 285-meter-long tanker, delivered a commissioning cargo from Nigeria, Electricite de France SA, which owns 65 percent of the project known as ...

  London / AFP A wave of women are taking power in Britain: the country will soon have a female prime minister following the Brexit vote while Scotland and Northern Ireland already have women leaders. “Is this all a happy coincidence? Has the glass ceiling finally been smashed?” the Guardian newspaper asked this week. In the race to succeed David ...

  Washington / AFP US employers added new workers at a surprisingly strong rate in June after an unnerving stall in May, in a clear demonstration of economic resilience, the Labor Department reported. The much better-than-expected numbers gave a boost to markets in the US and Europe, which have been battered down by worries that Britain’s vote to withdraw from ...

  Bloomberg CBS Radio Inc., a division of CBS Corp., filed for an initial public offering as one of the nation’s oldest broadcasters prepares to leave the shrinking AM/FM radio business. The company filed for an initial offering of $100 million, a placeholder amount that’s used to calculate fees and will probably change. CBS Radio plans to take on debt ...

  New York / BLOOMBERG Shares of Juno Therapeutics plunged after regulators suspended a clinical trial of a leukemia treatment following two patient deaths last week. The two patient deaths occurred after Juno recently added fludarabine to its chemotherapy regime that accompanies its cell treatment for acute lympoblastic leukemia. Juno, in a statement released after markets closed on Thursday, said ...