Bloomberg The European Union (EU) is nearing an agreement on key legislation to regulate the cryptocurrency sector that would set common rules across the 27 member states, people familiar with the matter said. France, which currently chairs the EU, and the European Parliament are optimistic about resolving remaining issues holding up the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) package and reaching ...

  Bloomberg Boris Johnson took aim at his own government’s tariffs on imports of food that is not produced domestically, saying their removal could ease the UK’s cost-of-living crisis. But even his officials say otherwise. “Why do we have a tariff of 93 pence a kilo on Turkish olive oil?” Johnson said at a speech in Blackpool, northern England, days ...

  Bloomberg The French economy will grow this year despite soaring inflation and uncertainty over the war in Ukraine, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said. The minister declined to give an estimate, saying he would update country’s growth forecast once a revised budget bill is presented following the legislative elections later this month. “It was 4%, it’s obvious that with ...

  Bloomberg A glut of fertilisers at the biggest Brazilian ports signals that the price of the nutrients may have to drop further before farmers start buying. In Paranagua, private warehouses reached their maximum storage capacity of 3.5 million tons, according to Luiz Teixeira da Silva, Paranagua’s operations director. A terminal operated by VLI Logistics, one of the two at ...

  Bloomberg US equity futures pared gains on Tuesday and a rebound in European stocks proved short-lived, suggesting markets aren’t out of the woods after a rout driven by expectations of sharper Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes to fight inflation. S&P 500 contracts came off session highs to trade around 0.5%, signalling some relief after the plunge that erased $1.3 trillion ...

  Bloomberg Indian central bank’s verbal pledge to support a record government-borrowing program hasn’t been backed by actions so far and that may lead to a deeper selloff in the bond market, according to a top fund manager. The RBI “has just started doing a little bit of open-mouth operations in the sense they want the yield curve to behave ...

  Dubai / WAM Germany and the UAE as strong economic partners will continue “the old-fashioned trade,” but they have an opportunity to make joint investments in new technologies and businesses of the “new economy” that will help achieve their net-zero targets, a top German diplomat told the Emirates News Agency (WAM). “We have very good economic relations. But there’s ...

  Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company, on Monday announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Birgi Mefar Group (BMG), one of Turkey’s leading producers of sterile injectable products.­ As a full-service pharmaceutical CDMO, BMG is a production service provider for sterile injectable products, namely vials and pre-filled syringes used ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Borouge, a leading petrochemical company that provides innovative and differentiated polyolefin solutions, has been included in FTSE Russell’s FTSE Global Equity Index Series which includes three world-renowned indices – FTSE Emerging Index, FTSE Global Large Cap Index and FTSE All-World Index – as of June 10. FTSE Russell’s indices are used by investors globally to ...

  Kuwait/ WAM The Central Agency for Public Tenders of Kuwait (CAPT) has stated that the agency awarded 235 tenders worth $5.9 billion in 2021. Secretary-General of CAPT Usama Al-Duaij told Kuna that number of awarded tenders has been mounting on an annual basis, however, the total sum of offers reached, in 2020, only 98 ones, worth approx $1 billion, ...