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ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates on Thursday sent an aid plane carrying seven metric tons of medical supplies to Union of the Comoros. The aid will assist approximately 7,000 medical professionals as they work to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Commenting on the aid delivery, Saeed Mohammed Saeed Al Maqbali, UAE Ambassador to Union of the Comoros, said, ...
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21 May
UAE’s banks among top performing in GCC: KPMG
DUBAI / WAM KPMG released the results of its fifth edition of the ‘GCC listed banks’ report, which analyses the published results of listed commercial banks across the region for the year ended December 31, 2019. The report, titled ‘New Age Banking’, has found that the UAE’s top ten banks reported positive results in 2019, with an average 13.9 percent ...
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21 May
Total’s Mozambique LNG to sign $15b financing in June
Bloomberg A Total SA-led liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique will receive commitments for about $15 billion of financing at a signing scheduled in June, marking rare progress for such a project as companies scrutinise costs. The first and most significant phase of the financing commitment for the LNG project — which will be Africa’s biggest private investment yet — ...
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21 May
UK grid struggles as renewables overtake fossil fuels, says study
Bloomberg The UK transmission network is under pressure as it grapples with a flood of green power and lower demand, according to new research published on Thursday. Intermittent renewables supplied more than 40% of electricity during first quarter of 2020, overtaking fossil fuels for the first time, according to the Electric Insights report, commissioned by Drax Group Plc and researched ...
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21 May
India’s oil demand stays weak as its economy falters amid virus lockdown
Bloomberg It’s going to take months for oil demand in the world’s third biggest market to get back to pre-virus levels as India faces its deepest recession ever in the wake of its near two-month lockdown. Once the engine of global oil demand growth, India’s fuel consumption collapsed by as much as 70% at one stage last month as it ...
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21 May
Texas sees power demand rebound as lockdowns ease
Bloomberg Texas has started seeing a slight increase in power use this week in one of the first signs that electricity demand is bouncing back in the US as lockdowns ease. While power use in the Lone Star state is still depressed, the state’s main grid operator noticed a slight improvement in electricity use during early morning hours, according to ...
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21 May
Mitsui mulls stake sale in Indonesia’s Paiton Energy
Bloomberg Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co is considering a sale of its majority stake in PT Paiton Energy, one of Indonesia’s biggest independent power producers, people with knowledge of the matter said. Mitsui is working with an adviser on a potential divestment of its 45.5% stake in the power producer, said the people, who asked not to be identified ...
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21 May
No, India doesn’t need a bigger stimulus now
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced a stimulus package for India, he said it was worth Rs 20 trillion — $265 billion, equivalent to about 10% of the country’s GDP. This seemed to fit in with the amounts being spent by some rich OECD economies to deal with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Equity markets exulted. In Modi’s ...
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21 May
Cape Town aims to buy ‘own power’
Bloomberg Cape Town, South Africa’s second-biggest city, said it could buy its own renewable energy within five to six years if it wins a court case against the government. The city of 4 million people has sued the Energy Ministry and the national power regulator to obtain the right to procure its energy in a case that could pave the ...
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21 May
What is biggest thing in e-commerce?
It’s no surprise to hear that retailers’ online sales are surging through the coronavirus pandemic. But would you guess that for some of the biggest winners, it’s their physical stores that gave those sales a boost? Even as consumers grapple with stay-at-home orders and their own fears of contagion, a surprisingly large number are willing to pick up their digital ...
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