Bloomberg Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is borrowing a page from Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a quest to boost his popularity before elections next year by picking a fight with his country’s banks. Both leaders had for years been trying to lower borrowing costs. Erdogan succeeded earlier this month when he announced that he would view as an act ...

  Bloomberg / AFP Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s regional jet aircraft took off again for the US on Sunday after aborting its maiden test flight to the US a day earlier due to problems with an on-board system about an hour into the trip. The aircraft, Japan’s first passenger plane developed at home in more than a half century, took off ...

  Bloomberg A Southwest Airlines Co. jet was forced to make an emergency landing after the cabin lost pressure due to what federal officials called a rare uncontained engine failure. No one was injured on Flight 3472 from New Orleans to Orlando, Florida, when the Boeing Co. 737 was diverted to Pensacola International Airport in Florida, an spokesman said by ...

  Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc told analysts it’s cutting prices more than anticipated this summer, helping to boost bookings and increase occupancy levels on its flights. Ryanair’s yield, a measure of revenue per kilometer flown that reflects fares, is expected to fall between 8 and 9 percent over the first half ending Sept. 30, steeper than the 6 to 8 ...

  AFP US online retail titan Amazon, which has been accused of fostering a cutthroat workplace atmosphere, will try out teams that log 30-hour work weeks, the Washington Post reported. The employees will receive the same benefits as those putting in 40-hour weeks, but get three-quarters of the pay, according to the Post, which is owned by Amazon chief executive ...

  Bloomberg Shares of Dollar General Corp. and Dollar Tree Inc. tumbled after the discount retailers posted disappointing sales, a sign that cuts in food-stamp programs are taking a toll. Dollar General’s second-quarter revenue and profit both missed analysts’ estimates. Its same-store sales — a closely watched measure — grew just 0.7 percent in the period, compared with the 2.6 ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) said that this year’s international summer campaign had a positive effect on the tourist numbers in the Emirate. The SCTDA campaign which ran in collaboration with the emirates accommodation sector was run in parallel with the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s summer campaign which promoted the commerce ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Entrepreneurship is a source of economic growth in all parts of the world, and in many Middle Eastern countries it is one of the main economic drivers. Bayt.com, the Middle East’s leading job site, teamed up with YouGov, a pioneer in online market research, to ascertain the current levels of understanding and interest in entrepreneurship ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Citrix has announced its intent to take its cloud-first, mobile-first approach to new heights through its partnership with Microsoft by developing the next generation of the Azure RemoteApp service. The offering will combine the simplicity and speed of Microsoft Azure RemoteApp with many of the enterprise capabilities of Citrix XenApp to revolutionize app delivery from ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business dubizzle, the UAE’s leading classifieds platform, has published its first ever luxury and prestige motors report looking at trends over the first seven months of 2016. According to the report, almost 145,000 car ads were posted, with over 7,000 luxury car ads, including Porsche and Bentley, and 36,000 prestige car ads, including Mercedes-Benz and BMW, ...