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Tropical Storm Gordon to strike US Gulf Coast as hurricane

Bloomberg Tropical Storm Gordon will grow into a hurricane as it grazes offshore natural gas and oil fields, where it has already sparked evacuations, before coming ashore over the lower Mississippi Valley later on Tuesday or early Wednesday. Gordon, with top winds of 65 miles (100 kilometres) per hour, was about 230 miles east-southeast of the mouth of Mississippi River, ...

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Arab Future Cities Summit opens

Dubai / WAM Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme, on Monday launched the 5th Arab Future Cities Summit 2018 in Dubai. The two-day summit was organised by the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme, in cooperation with “Expotrade ...

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Sheikh Nahyan inaugurates pharma event in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business HE Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, on Monday officially inaugurated CPhI Middle East & Africa 2018, the region’s leading platform for the pharmaceutical industry, followed by a tour of the exhibition. This year’s show is making its regional debut in the UAE, taking place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre ...

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UAE central bank reviews Q2 report

ABU DHABI / WAM The Board of Directors of the UAE Central Bank held its seventh meeting for 2018 on Sunday, under the chairmanship of Khalifa Al Kindi, Chairman of the Board. During the meeting, which was held at the Central Bank’s premises, the board reviewed a memo regarding the Macro Prudential Policy stance report – Q2 2018, and instructed ...

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‘Global energy forum’ returns to Abu Dhabi in 2019

ABU DHABI / WAM The third annual Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum will be held in Abu Dhabi on January 12-13, 2019, again kicking off Abu Dhabi’s Sustainability Week. The two-day event gathers international and regional political, industry, and thought leaders to set the global energy agenda for the year and examine the longer-term geopolitical and geo-economic implications of the ...

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Democratic power struggle puts heat on older white incumbents

Bloomberg He’s a white, 10-term incumbent in a majority-minority district. She’s two decades younger and wants to be the state’s first black woman elected to Congress. The Democrats vying in a Tuesday primary for a Boston area US House seat—incumbent Mike Capuano, 66, and Boston City Councilwoman Ayanna Pressley, 44—highlight a choice the party has been confronting around the country: ...

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Manufacturing growth in UK slows to 2-year low as exports falter

Bloomberg UK manufacturing growth unexpectedly slowed to the weakest in two years last month as export orders contracted amid a weakening of the global economy. IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 52.8 in August, the firm said, down from 53.8 a month earlier, and below the 53.9 forecast by economists. A gauge of new orders for exports fell below ...

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Google, Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales

Bloomberg For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the US. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of the two billion Mastercard holders aren’t ...

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Steel major Jindal studies split as $6bn debt weighs

Bloomberg Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. is considering a breakup plan as part of a restructuring to help trim its 420 billion rupee ($6 billion) debt pile and boost investor confidence in a company that was once India’s biggest steelmaker by market value. The New Delhi-based company is looking at splitting its steel, power and international businesses into three separate ...

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