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ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE and China signed an Economic Development Work Plan, with the aim of promoting commercial and customs cooperation. The work plan involves five stages of detailed procedures, which will see further trade and investment agreements between the two countries coming into fruition. The Economic Development Work Plan was signed during the first meeting of the ...
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December, 2018
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17 December
DAE to sell 18 mid-life aircraft
DUBAI / WAM Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) entered into a definitive sale agreement to sell a portfolio of 18 mid-life aircraft to institutional investors. The 18 aircraft in this portfolio are on lease to 15 airlines in 13 countries and have a weighted average age of approximately nine years with a weighted average remaining lease term of 4.5 years. The ...
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17 December
Empower to set up first unmanned ‘cooling plant’
DUBAI / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) is building a new 50,000 Refrigeration Tonnesm (RT) unmanned district cooling plant in Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC). Being built at a total cost of AED250 million, the project is part of company’s expansion plan of increasing the number of district cooling plants across Dubai, to serve major projects. This is also ...
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17 December
US stocks pare losses at start of Fed week; Treasuries gain
Bloomberg The slide in US stocks slowed somewhat as investors weighed the impact of the Federal Reserve on growth in an economy already buffeted by trade, geopolitical tensions and a possible government shutdown. All major American equity benchmarks opened lower, before a tech rally pared some losses, as the Fed looked certain to raise rates after its policy meeting on ...
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17 December
Goldman: China’s yuan trading likely to get more volatile
Bloomberg China’s exchange rate is likely to get more volatile in time as the country pushes greater international use of the yuan, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. While the yuan-internationalisation campaign hit a setback as China tightened regulation of capital flows in the wake of a messy 2015 devaluation, there’s increasing pressure for policy makers to take up the ...
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17 December
Brexit isn’t the only thing weighing on London property
Bloomberg Brokers have been quick to blame the uncertainty around Brexit for downturn in London property values, but beneath the surface there’s a number of factors suggesting declines may be inevitable no matter what the outcome. Home price growth in the city has turned negative, according to a Bloomberg analysis of Land Registry data, months after analysts expected them to ...
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17 December
Fed enters brave policy world as rates near normal levels
Bloomberg As the Federal Reserve approaches the final stages of monetary policy normalisation 10 years after it cut interest rates to zero, it faces the tough task of charting a less certain path while taking incoming fire from President Donald Trump. Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues are expected to ignore Trump’s criticisms and raise interest rates this week for ...
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17 December
Raid on Deutsche Bank hasn’t helped revenue, says CFO
Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s quarterly revenue was impacted by the raids on its Frankfurt headquarters, Chief Financial Officer James von Moltke told Bloomberg. “The raid has not helped us on the revenue side, especially in a weak market environment like we have seen in December,†von Moltke said in email comments. “We expect these negative effects to fade away soon ...
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17 December
More banks in crosshairs as Denmark tax probe grows
Bloomberg Denmark is trying to find out just how many banks were involved in suspicious stock trades executed for the sole purpose of getting a tax rebate. The transactions in question started more than a decade ago, after Denmark and Switzerland made it possible to claim back taxes on dividends through a revised double-taxation accord between the two countries. Nordea ...
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17 December
Borrowers brace for end of easy money
Bloomberg Bankers and borrowers are bracing themselves for a difficult year selling eurobonds now that the days of easy money are coming to an end. January’s often the busiest month of the year for new bond sales but as credit markets lose their biggest backer and political threats loom — Brexit, Italian fiscal angst and trade woes — companies must ...
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