Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business A delegation led by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) attended an exclusive Executive Summit held at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. The event offered DCT Abu Dhabi and its partners, Etihad Airways, Miral, Adnec, and Aldar, the opportunity to explore Google’s main campus as well ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Adnoc Distribution announced it has been awarded the International Organization for Standardization Certification (ISO 50001) for its world class Energy Management System (EnMS). The certificate was presented to Adnoc Distribution’s Acting CEO Saeed Mubarak Al Rashdi by Matthew Skinner, Regional Managing Director (Gulf and Pakistan), Intertek Certification, an international accredited certifying body. The ISO 50001 ...

Dubai / WAM The Business Park at Dubai South recorded a 400% growth in companies operating in the park since its inception in early 2015 with the number of companies increasing from 900 in 2015 to 4,500 in 2018. An average of 1,500 new companies has joined the park each year. The park also has a high customer retention rate ...

Dubai / WAM The health of the non-oil private sector in Dubai improved at a marked rate in June. Although the headline index fell from May’s recent peak, reflecting easing travel and tourism growth momentum, stronger expansions were registered in both the wholesale and retail and construction sectors. Furthermore, business confidence accelerated to a survey-record high in June amid a ...

Bloomberg US equities joined a global rally that began in Asia as investors set aside concern about escalating trade tensions to focus on the coming earnings season. The pound erased gains after pro-Brexit official Boris Johnson quit as UK foreign secretary. The S&P 500 Index rose to the highest since mid-June and the Dow Jones Industrial Average popped through key ...

Bloomberg Chinese large cap stocks climbed the most in two years, bouncing back from a bruising run of losses in the lead up to the imposition of US tariffs from July 6. The yuan also rose after retreating for four weeks straight. The Shanghai Composite Index jumped 2.5 percent, the most since May 2016, following seven weekly declines in a ...

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. opened the world’s largest mobile phone factory in India, in a win for PM Narendra Modi’s flagship programme to lure investors to manufacture in the South Asian nation. The factory was inaugurated by Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in during their visit to the facility located at the outskirts of Delhi. This will double Samsung’s ...

Bloomberg China will reimburse the buyer for the cost of the 25 percent tariff on soybean imports from the US if the cargoes are for state reserves, according to people familiar with the matter. Extra duties were applied to a range of US farm products from July 6 in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese ...

Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is in talks with BT Group Plc about a cloud services partnership as the Chinese internet giant challenges Amazon.com Inc.’s dominance in Europe. An agreement between Alibaba and the IT consulting unit of Britain’s former phone monopoly could be similar to Alibaba’s existing arrangement with Vodafone Group Plc in Germany, according to a person familiar ...

Bloomberg A fierce typhoon is headed in the direction of Taiwan, spurring warnings over extreme weather that risks shuttering schools, businesses and the stock exchange. Super Typhoon Maria could bring strong winds and heavy rains to northern and central Taiwan in the coming days, Central Weather Bureau specialist Judy Wuu said. Taipei, the political and business capital, is on the ...