Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates has achieved impressive improvement across six global competitiveness indices over the past eight months of 2017, further consolidating its investment-conducive environment in line with the government’s sustainable development drive. The country maintained its competitive edge and top position regionally across the six global indices. At the World Competitiveness Yearbook issued by the ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Boosted by a year on year increase of 25% for visitors during its first two days, Cityscape Global has been the catalyst for a 186% increase in registered Dubai Land Department transactions of off-plan units, while big name developers have recorded overwhelmingly positive sentiment from investors driven by onsite sales. The region’s largest real estate and ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Following successful exhibitions in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, and Shanghai, the last two of which generated AED 1.2 billion and AED 800 million of investments respectively, Dubai Land Department (DLD) now plans to explore new destinations for promoting the Emirate’s attractive real estate market through its flagship event, the Dubai Property Show. At a ceremony hosted ...

Dubai / WAM Leading professional services company, Accenture, will open a digital hub in District 2020, the legacy site of Expo 2020 Dubai, to help clients across a variety of industries develop innovative digital solutions, working closely with its technology partners. This initiative signals Accenture’s support to the UAE government’s initiative of accelerating economic and social development through the World ...

Dubai / Emirates Business MAG Property Development (MAG PD), the real estate development arm of MAG Group, announced the launch of its flagship AED 4 billion ‘MAG EYE’ project for customers looking for exceptional investment opportunities at Cityscape Global. MAG EYE is one of the exclusive communities being developed in the heart of Mohammed bin Rashid City in Meydan Dubai, ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Azizi Developments, a fast growing real estate developer operating in the UAE for over a decade, has announced that following the success of Phase 1 and 2 sales of the its AED12billion waterfront project — Azizi Riviera — at Cityscape Global 2017, it will announce 2 new mega developments at Meydan One in the last quarter ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The Intelak Incubator – founded by the Emirates Group, GE and Etisalat Digital – has on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dubai SME, the agency of Dubai Economy mandated to develop the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, to host and foster ‘Intelak Idea Lab,’ a three-week training program focused on giving entrepreneurial-minded ...

Bloomberg Stocks pulled back from the rally that had pushed equities to records as oil jumped on a forecast for rising demand. The S&P 500 Index slipped and the Stoxx Europe 600 headed for the first drop in six days after US and global benchmarks closed at all-time highs a day earlier. Miners led the decline in Europe as the ...

Reuters Shares of Saudi Arabia’s top food producers, Savola and Almarai, fell on Wednesday after Savola said it was selling a small stake in the dairy maker, while Qatar’s bourse closed at a 52-month low as foreign funds continued to exit. The Riyadh index fell 0.3 percent with Savola declining 1.8 percent to 46.55 riyals, after initially surging to an ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG sees bank profits under pressure as European regulations force lenders to charge for research, breaking apart a decades-old business model that’s prompted a race to provide the cheapest offering. “It will be challenging and it will be rocky” Andrea Orcel, head of UBS’s investment bank, said of the impact of the MiFID II directive in a ...