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Dubai / Emirates Business A survey of UAE investors and residents show that the recently implemented UAE Permanent Residency Scheme has created a positive sentiment in the investment community. A random survey of 1,012 respondents indicate that existing investors have more appetite to increase their portfolio, while would-be investors are now more open to start investing. Seventy-nine per cent of ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is continuing to prioritise the ease of doing business with the introduction of new licencing categories and fees designed to make establishing businesses within the Centre easier and more affordable. Four new licencing categories were introduced as part of the new Operating Law and Regulations, including Short-term and Restricted Licences, Comme- rcial ...

Bloomberg Meicai, a Chinese startup that connects vegetable farmers with restaurants, is seeking at least $500 million in funding to try and grab a larger slice of a fragmented food sourcing market, people familiar with the matter said. The company is looking to achieve a valuation of between $10 billion and $12 billion, one of the people said. The figures ...

Bloomberg The US said it would grant licenses allowing companies to export goods to Huawei Technologies Co but won’t remove the Chinese technology giant from an export blacklist, as talks between the world’s two biggest economies resumed. The Department of Commerce will “issue licenses where there is no threat to US national security,” though Huawei will continue to face export ...

Bloomberg The European Commission cut its euro-area growth and inflation forecast for next year as trade tensions and policy uncertainty weigh on the region, strengthening Mario Draghi’s case for further stimulus measures. The latest warning comes just two weeks before the European Central Bank (ECB’s next policy meeting, where it may lower interest rates or signal that action is imminent. ...

Bloomberg London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to charge Uber Technologies Inc drivers to operate in the city centre amounts to racial discrimination and puts some out of business, lawyers for the drivers said in court, in the latest stage of a long-running battle between those working for the ride-hailing firm and traditional cabbies. A union representing Uber drivers is suing ...

Bloomberg The UK has fallen behind on its promises to slash emissions and fight climate change despite claims it’s leading major industrialised nations in its fight to slow global warming. That’s the conclusion of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the government’s official adviser on environmental policies, which suggests ministers need to take much more dramatic action to meet their ...

Bloomberg Britain’s ambassador to the US dramatically resigned after leaked comments in which he criticised the Trump. White House sparked a major diplomatic row between the transatlantic allies. President Donald Trump decided to freeze out Kim Darroch, saying he would no longer deal with the man who had called his administration “inept” and “uniquely dysfunctional.” In a statement released by ...

DUBAI / WAM The Federal Electricity and Water Authority (Fewa), a consortium consisting of Acwa Power and MDC Power Holding Company, an entity fully owned by Mubadala Investment Company, has entered into a water purchase agreement for a 150 million imperial gallon per day desalination plant in the Emirate of Umm Al Qaiwain (UAQ). The plant will utilise Seawater Reverse ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Enoc Group opened a new service station in Fujairah in line with its plans to expand its network to 191 stations in the UAE by end-2020. The Al Faseel service station will be Enoc’s ninth station in Fujairah since the first station in the emirate in 1989. The station caters to a large community in Al ...