Bloomberg Chicago faces a 2021 budget deficit of $1.2 billion as the coronavirus pandemic decimates the city’s revenue with businesses shut down due to social distancing while recent unrest hurt reopening efforts. Next year’s projected gap comes on top of a 2020 deficit of nearly $800 million for its corporate fund, which accounts for many of the services the city ...

Bloomberg The dollar dropped to a two-year low and US futures climbed after Chinese manufacturing data indicated that exports are underpinning a recovery. European stocks pared gains amid a retreat in travel shares. The euro led the charge against the greenback, hovering just below $1.20. Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc and Trainline Plc led losses in the Europe Stoxx 600 Index. The ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s main stock index halts a two-day slump, rising 1.4% by 9:54 am in Johannesburg, as dollar weakness lifts the rand, driving locally focused stocks like insurers, financials and retailers Miners extend gains for a third day, rising as sustained demand from Chinese mills lifted iron ore prices, and as greenback weakness drives bullion back towards $2,000 an ...

Bloomberg India stocks climbed after the nation’s top court approved a 10-year payment plan for telecom companies to clear combined back-fees worth $19 billion. The S&P BSE Sensex traded 1.3% higher at 12:46 pm in Mumbai, with the surge in Bharti Airtel Ltd. helping the gauge break out of a tentative start to the day. The NSE Nifty 50 Index ...

Bloomberg China Evergrande Group’s shares fell the most in two weeks after the company said its debt load increased from the end of last year, falling short on a pledge to remake itself as a leaner company. The company’s total debt edged up 4% to 835 billion yuan at the end of June, compared with 800 billion yuan at the ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Crown Prince and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has issued Executive Council Resolution No. (24) of 2020 on tourist camps in Dubai. The Resolution seeks to reinforce Dubai’s status as a global holiday destination, regulate the set up and operation of tourist camps and enhance ...

Bloomberg Oil rises above $43 a barrel in New York to its highest closing level since early March amid a broader rally in equities and as China’s economic recovery continued. West Texas Intermediate futures snapped a two-day drop, rising 1.4% as of 2:34 pm in Dubai, while Brent crude for November settlement climbed around the same amount to $46.47. Data ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A medical aid aircraft dispatched by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) arrived in Damascus, in coordination with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, to help reduce the spread of coronavirus(Covid-19) pandemic and support the Syrian medical sector. The medical aid includes basic supplies used to maintain the precautionary and preventive measures aimed at confronting the coronavirus pandemic, ...

Bloomberg India’s economy contracted by the most on record last quarter as the world’s biggest lockdown to stem the coronavirus pandemic brought key industries to a halt and rendered millions of people jobless. Gross domestic product shrinks 23.9% in the three months to June from a year earlier, the Statistics Ministry said in a report on Monday. That’s the sharpest ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis & Disasters Committee for the Covid-19 Pandemic, in collaboration with the Department of Economic Development (DED) has allocated teams to communicate with private companies in Abu Dhabi to discuss their needs and obligations towards their expatriate employees. The move follows the leadership’s directives regarding the protection of workers and their rights, ...