Bloomberg Norway’s exports surged to a record last year, helped by higher demand for fossil fuels, fish and metals. Western Europe’s largest oil and gas exporter sold 1.38 trillion kroner ($156 billion) worth of goods abroad in 2021, a 77% increase that led to a full-year trade surplus of 531 billion kroner, also the highest ever, Statistics Norway said ...

  Bloomberg Tesla Inc has pushed back initial production of its futuristic-looking Cybertruck to the first quarter of 2023, according to a Reuters report. Production of the electric pickup had been expected to start later this year but was delayed by a decision to change some of the pickup’s features, the report said. In December, Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded ...

  Bloomberg US home sales in December had their biggest plunge since the early months of the Covid-19 lockdowns as listings sank to record lows. Transactions fall 11% from a year earlier, the biggest annual decline since June 2020, according to a report by Redfin Corp. Demand is still fierce, but what’s holding back deals is a lack of inventory: ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities. The only remaining product on the App Store with that title appeared to be Wordle!, a time-based game created by Steven Cravotta more than five years ago. Apple confirmed the move to Bloomberg. ...

  Bloomberg Venezuela probably grew 4% in 2021, signalling an “economic recovery” in 2022, President Nicolas Maduro said in his annual state of the union speech, maintaining his firm grip for a ninth year on a mandate considered illegitimate by the opposition, the US and several European countries. “I can state that Venezuela, after five years of economic warfare, has ...

  Bloomberg Stocks were mixed on Monday as traders weighed a global advance in sovereign bond yields and the start of the earnings season. Media, miners and healthcare led an advance in Europe’s Stoxx 600 Index, while Nasdaq 100 futures fall. A dollar gauge was little changed and oil ticked up. US stock and bond markets are shut on Monday ...

  Bloomberg The threat of the Omicron variant is becoming real for many of Asia’s biggest countries just as it looks set to subside in some Western nations, and that’s complicating investors’ search for winning share bets in the region. The problem is that Asian governments are carrying out widely diverging coronavirus policies, with strategies ranging from China’s pursuit of ...

  RIYADH / WAM Security and police forces from the UAE are participating in the joint tactical exercise, “Arab Gulf Security 3”, which is taking place in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia, with the participation of security forces from all member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for Arab States. The exercise a concerted effort to help boost ...

  Bloomberg GlaxoSmithKline Plc said it rejected an offer from Unilever Plc for the drugmaker’s consumer healthcare unit last year that valued the business at about 50 billion pounds ($68 billion). Glaxo in a statement said that it had received three unsolicited offers from Unilever for its consumer healthcare business, the final one on Dec. 20 for 41.7 billion pounds ...

  BOGOTA / WAM A delegation from the Emirates News Agency (WAM) discussed ways to enhance cooperation with a number of media entities in Colombia, along with their participation in the Global Media Congress, which will be hosted by Abu Dhabi next November. The discussion took place during the visit of delegation, led by Mohammed Jalal Al Rayssi, Director-General of ...