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Bloomberg Japan’s economy expanded more than first estimated in the fourth quarter, driven partly by stronger business investment. Yet more recent gauges of factory output and exports point to a gloomier outlook for this year. Gross domestic product grew at an annualised pace of 1.9% in the three months through December. That compared with an initial reading of 1.4% and ...

Bloomberg Berry Global Group Inc. agreed to buy RPC Group Plc for 3.34 billion pounds ($4.4 billion) to create one of the world’s largest plastic-packaging companies, derailing a rival takeover plan by Apollo Global Management. Once a holding of Apollo, Berry boosted the cash part of its proposal to win backing from RPC’S board. Shareholders wou-ld get 793 pence a ...

Bloomberg Purdue Pharma LLP says its decision on whether to file for bankruptcy to avoid being swamped by opioid lawsuits doesn’t depend on the timing of the first trial over its role in the public-health crisis. A judge in Oklahoma refused Purdue’s, Johnson & Johnson’s and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s requests to push back a May trial of Oklahoma officials’ ...

Bloomberg US hiring was the weakest in more than a year while wage gains were the fastest of the expansion and the unemployment rate fell, a possible sign that America’s jobs engine is starting to slow down. Treasuries rose while the dollar and stock futures fell. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 20,000 after an upwardly revised 311,000 gain the prior month, ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai SME, the agency of the Department of Economic Development (DED), in Dubai mandated to develop the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SMEs), sector, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with Emaar Industries & Investments, to co-operate and collaborate in assisting local SMEs to be part of innovative projects and grow internationally. The MoU is part of ...

DUBAI / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), received a high-profile delegation from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), to discuss cooperation through joint initiatives, programmes, projects, and investment opportunities. The Japeanese delegation included Nobumitsu Hayashi, Deputy Governor of JBIC, and Naoki Tamaki, Chief Representative for the Middle East from the ...

Sharjah / WAM Pearl Petroleum Company Limited, the consortium led by Crescent Petroleum and Dana Gas of the UAE, has signed a new 20-year Gas Sales Agreement (GSA), with the Kurdistan Regional Government. The agreement will enable production and sales of an additional 250 MMscf/day that the consortium aims to produce by 2021 as part of their expansion plans in the ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced the formation of the New Zealand Business Council (NZBC), in Dubai in a move to strengthen UAE-New Zealand relations and expand bilateral economic ties. The New Zealand Business Council is the 50th country-specific business council to be established in Dubai under the umbrella of Dubai Chamber. The council has ...

Bloomberg The US and China are edging closer to resolving differences on currencies that have bogged down economic talks for nearly two decades. The only question is how meaningful the deal will be. With both nations inching towards a trade agreement that’s expected to include a provision for China to hold the yuan stable, US President Donald Trump is shifting ...

Bloomberg Investors looking for opportunities to make money in India’s election year will most likely find them in the battered corner of the nation’s $2 trillion stock market: mid-cap shares. Mid- and small-sized companies are trading at a discount to their historical averages after the recent selloff, and the fund house plans to gradually boost its exposure to them relative ...