Bloomberg Rexel SA’s new chief executive officer will review the company’s 2020 targets as partial recoveries in the French construction and oil and gas markets help the electrical-equipment maker meet its goals for this year. The management team will focus on “delivering our 2016 targets, along with reviewing our action plans and updating our 2020 ambitions,” Chief Executive Officer ...

  AFP Price rises for new homes in China accelerated in July from the previous month, a survey showed on Monday, with some buyers possibly prompted by moves in some cities to curb prices. The average price for new homes in 100 major cities increased 1.63 percent month-on-month in June to 12,009 yuan ($1,814) per square metre, the China Index ...

  Bloomberg Inside a packed Vodafone Group Plc store in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, a group of the city’s tech-savvy students wait in line for wireless modems they hope will transform their ability to surf the internet. They don’t even care that they won’t be able to get a voice plan to talk over the British mobile operator’s network ...

  Bloomberg GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the UK’s biggest drugmaker, is forming a joint venture with Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s life-sciences business to explore using electrical signals to treat diseases. Glaxo will hold a 55 percent stake in the venture, called Galvani Bioelectronics, and Alphabet’s Verily Life Sciences LLC will hold 45 percent, according to a statement on Monday. The companies will ...

  Relaxnews Funai Electric Company, the last remaining Japanese manufacturer of VCR devices — sold under various brand names, such as Sanyo in North America — has announced an end to production this summer. The manufacturer reported sales of 750,0000 video recorders worldwide in 2015. This latest nail in the coffin for the VCR spells the end of a technological ...

  DPA The day doesn’t start too badly for fisherman Celmo Mantovani. His patch, the Copacabana, is at its best at 5.30 in the morning, the rising sun streaks the sky with red and gold, and the Sugarloaf mountain rears up black against it. Mantovani and a couple of colleagues push their 23-year-old boat, the El Shaday, into the water ...

  AFP Thomas Kurz strokes the hood of his Plymouth Road Runner almost affectionately with a cloth. “It’s a 1970 model,” he says, alluding to the fact that this highly polished muscle-car with 335 horsepower under the hood is exactly as old as its owner. Kurz is a trained vehicle mechanic who specializes in US classics. Late last year, he ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State of the UAE and Chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, has stressed that Abu Dhabi’s support of the first solar-powered flight around the globe by Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), a cooperative venture between the UAE and Switzerland, sends a positive message about the success of partnership ...

  DUBAI / WAM Master developer Dubai South awarded a contract worth AED300 million for infrastructure works at its flagship Residential District. Central to the contract, which was awarded to Tristar Engineering & Construction LLC, is the delivery of the completed infrastructure works of Phase 1 and 2 of the Residential District in Dubai South by Q4 2017. The contract ...

  Bloomberg Aramex PJSC advanced for an 11th day as stock markets across the Gulf languished amid lower-than-normal trading volumes. The Dubai-based logistics company extended its longest rising streak since it began trading more than a decade ago, climbing 2.8 percent as of 11:43 am. local time to the highest level since 2006. Every major equity index across the six-nation ...