Bloomberg Investors betting against Treasuries — or even just hiding out in cash waiting for lower prices — just suffered a rough week, even after a robust slate of economic figures showed the rebound from the pandemic is gaining steam. The debate over the long-term outlook for the $21 trillion market is far from over. The bearish view has dominated ...

Bloomberg After a historic antitrust crackdown on China’s biggest tech companies last week, investors are betting there is more pain ahead. GAM Investments, BNP Paribas Asset Management and JP Morgan Asset Management Inc. see more regulatory tightening in China’s clampdown on monopolistic practices, putting pressure on the country’s leading internet stocks over the next few months. The Hang Seng Tech ...

Bloomberg Oil posted the biggest weekly gain since early March as economic data in the US and China strengthened expectations for a recovery in global fuel demand. Futures in New York advanced 6.4% this week, despite eking out a small loss last week. On the heels of robust economic figures out of the US, data from China showed its gross ...

DUBAi / WAM Dubai Customs announced the completion of five million transactions in the first quarter of this year, according to latest figures. This is equivalent to the double number of transactions in the same period in pre-pandemic 2019, and 20% more than Q1 2020, in which 4 million transactions were completed, according to a Dubai Customs statement on Saturday. ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced that as part of the expansion of the eligibility criteria for Covid-19 vaccination, women who are breastfeeding as well as those who are planning to conceive can take the mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech). Furthermore, patients who had Covid-19 no longer need to wait for three months to get the vaccine. They can ...

VIENNA / WAM The Opec Fund for International Development has announced the signing of a $50 million term loan agreement with ACWA Power to support the construction and operation of a 1.5 gigawatt (GW) combined cycle gas-turbine power plant in Sirdarya, Uzbekistan. The new plant, located near the border with Tajikistan, will replace an ageing, less efficient thermal power facility, ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co. has found potential electrical flaws in two additional areas of the 737 Max’s cockpit, a week after a similar manufacturing defect prompted a temporary flying halt for recently delivered jetliners, said people familiar with the matter. The planemaker has inspected the Max’s flight deck for other electrical faults near the flaw revealed last week with the plane’s ...

Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry discussed ways to boost the economic ties and strategic partnerships with the Republic of Belarus in a way that serves the interests of business communities in the two countries. This came during a meeting held at the SCCI headquarters between Abdallah Sultan Al Owais, Chairman of the SCCI, and Evgeny ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, launched the ‘National Behavioural Reward Programme’ on Saturday morning at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi. The programme is one of the initiatives of the Department of Behavioural Rewards of the Ministry of Possibilities to support and ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs announced the completion of five million transactions in the first quarter of this year, according to latest figures. This is equivalent to double the number of transactions in the same period in pre-pandemic 2019, and 20 percent more than Q1 2020, in which 4 million transactions were completed, according to a Dubai Customs statement on ...