Bloomberg The Thailand and Malaysian operations of Britain’s largest supermarket chain Tesco Plc. are on the shopping lists of Thai tycoons. Thai billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont’s Charoen Pokphand Group and Central Group, controlled by Chirathivat family, are among companies that are weighing bids for the Southeast Asian business that could fetch more than $7 billion, according to people with knowledge of ...

Bloomberg After quietly supplying coffee addicts their daily fix for decades, Vietnam is preparing to take on Nestle SA and its Asian rivals to reach them faster. Instead of selling raw robusta beans to foreign companies for turning into instant coffee, Vietnam’s biggest supplier is preparing to offer its own soluble powder in early 2020. The shift is aimed at ...

Bloomberg Creditors of Toms Shoes LLC, the popular footwear seller that’s been struggling to weather declining sales amid a pile of looming debt, have agreed to take over the company in exchange for restructuring its debt. The group of creditors, led by Jefferies Financial Group Inc., Nexus Capital Management LP and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. will assume the ownership from ...

VIENNA / WAM The UAE is strictly committed to its nuclear policy principles of transparency, safety and security, sustainability and international cooperation to ensure that its Peaceful Nuclear Energy Programme is developed in line with the highest standards, said Hamad Al Kaabi, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the UAE to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In a statement made ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade volumes surged to 83 million tonnes in the first nine months of 2019, an increase of 22 percent year-on-year from 68 million tonnes in the corresponding period last year. The volume of re-exports skyrocketed 48 percent to reach 13 million tons. Exports rose by 47% to 14 million tonnes while imports grew by ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has strongly condemned the terror attack by a car bomb on a security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, which resulted in death of numerous innocent civilians and the wounding of others. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation stressed that UAE strongly condemns these criminal acts and fully rejects all forms of violence, ...

Bloomberg The transitional government in Sudan is planning a set of economic and political reforms, including removing fuel subsidies gradually in 2020, Reuters reported, citing Finance Minster Ibrahim Elbadawi. The subsidies for wheat and cooking gas would be retained to help the poor, he told reporters, Reuters said. Subsidies are a major burden on the government’s finances, which have been ...

Bloomberg Oil posted the longest run of weekly gains since April as prices followed equities higher and a government report showed US crude inventories falling to the lowest in two months. Futures in New York were little changed, clinging to a three-month high. The Energy Information Administration reported that oil inventories fell 5.47 million barrels while supplies at the key ...

Bloomberg Iraq, Opec’s second-biggest producer, halted output from a southern oil field as protesters walked close to installations. Other southern fields will make up the amount from the shutdown, which won’t affect the country’s output. The halt is temporary until the Nasiriya field, which produces 80,000 to 85,000 barrels a day, is clear of protesters. The closure was a precautionary ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), announced that it is providing $300 million in development aid to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Fund said in a statement, “The UAE leadership’s decision reaffirms the commitment to standing alongside the brotherly leadership and people of Jordan, reflecting the nation’s foreign policy that carries the legacy of ...