Tokyo / AFP Tokyo stocks ended lower for a second session Monday, giving up early gains with Nintendo slumping after it downplayed the impact of the Pokemon Go phenomenon on its bottom line. The benchmark Nikkei 225 hung in positive territory for much of the day as dealers eyed the start of Japan’s latest earnings season as well as …

  Bloomberg U.S. stocks retreated from records, with central-bank policy decisions looming later in the week as investors assess corporate earnings. The S&P 500 Index fell 0.3 percent to 2,169.61 at 9:37 a.m. in New York, following a fourth week of gains for the gauge. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 59.53 points to 18,521.32. Earnings remain in focus, with …

  Paderborn / DPA You may have used one at a theme park to find the nearest hair-raising ride, or to plan a walk in magnificent mountain scenery. Pictorial maps lay out your surroundings not as a map, from above, but in an oblique, eagle’s-eye panorama. Alexander Koenigs is one of the world’s few pictorial map illustrators able to do …

  TNS Google does not rank websites. It ranks web pages. “On-Page” search engine optimization (SEO) refers to the process of optimizing the content, images, internal linking, URLs, and meta tags of each and every page of your website. Through much testing with clients, which range from law firms to e-commerce companies, I’ve seen that the homepage is the most …

  ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has issued a resolution naming the committee members of the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX 2017), under the chairmanship of Major General Faris Khalaf Al Mazrouei. The …

  Chengdu / AFP Increasingly frequent terrorist attacks are becoming a growing threat to the global economy, finance chiefs from the world’s leading economies said on Sunday. Earlier this month 84 people were killed in Nice when a Tunisian truck driver—suspected to be inspired by the IS extremist group—ploughed a 19-tonne vehicle through a holiday crowd. That followed Paris attacks …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) have signed an Operating Support Services Agreement (OSSA) at a ceremony held at ENEC’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi in the presence of senior management representatives from both companies. Under the agreement, KHNP will dispatch experienced and qualified nuclear plant personnel to the …

  SHARJAH / WAM The Bank of Sharjah on Sunday announced its financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2016. During the period, the bank continued to adopt a very conservative credit policy and reduced expensive deposits while maintaining high levels of liquidity and a considerably low loan to deposit ratio. Net profit for the first half of 2016 …

  ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), one of the world’s leading aluminium producers, has been named one of the top rapidly globalising companies in the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 2016 Global Challengers report. This is EGA’s second citing, having also been included in the 2014 edition of the BCG Global Challengers report which focuses on the innovative business …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), the solar-powered plane attempting to become the first aircraft in the world to circumnavigate the Earth without using a drop of fossil fuel, will complete its epic journey in the early hours of Tuesday morning, returning to the city where its adventure began in March last year. The iconic aircraft’s arrival in …