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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Borouge on Thursday announced its financial results for the twelve-month and three-month periods ended December 31, 2022, with strong year-on-year growth in sales volumes driving healthy revenue growth. Highlights for the twelve months to December 31, 2022; Borouge reported a net profit of $1.4 billion, in line with market expectations and holding up well, despite ...

PANAMA / WAM A delegation from the Emirates News Agency (WAM), chaired by its Director-General Mohammed Jalal Al Rayssi, has discussed the agency’s cooperation with several media entities in Panama. During its visit to Panama, WAM delegation explored the outcomes of the first edition of the Global Media Congress which was held in Abu Dhabi in November 2022 and the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways has announced that it will increase its services to Frankfurt, Germany, as of May 1. The airline will add an extra four services a week to its current daily frequency, bringing the total number of flights to Frankfurt up to 11 weekly. The additional flights will be operated by one of Etihad’s ultra-modern ...

  Bloomberg US hiring likely continued to moderate at the start of the year, though still-solid wage growth, an unemployment rate near historical lows and high vacancies are seen stiffening the Federal Reserve’s resolve to keep rates elevated for some time. Friday’s jobs report is expected to show payrolls rose by 190,000 in January. Economists also estimate that average hourly ...

  Bloomberg The Royal Mail Pension Plan is handing BlackRock Inc. an £8.8 billion ($10.9 billion) mandate to be its outsourced chief investment officer. The world’s largest asset manager will lend its trading capabilities and technology to the pension plan, while using staff from the in-house investment team, according to a statement on Thursday. The plan pays for the retirements ...

Bloomberg The US is launching a new initiative to identify and invest in climate adaptation for Africa’s most nutritious crops in a bid to deal with growing hunger on the continent. The program, announced by the US State Department together with the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the African Union on Wednesday, will seek to identify crops in ...

  Bloomberg Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP’s $15 billion commitment last year to help finance Intel Corp.’s giant new semiconductor complex in Arizona, the first deal of its kind, sent investors and bankers racing to find similar opportunities. Brookfield, a major infrastructure investor, put up $2 billion in equity and borrowed $13 billion from a mix of foreign banks, pension funds ...

Bloomberg North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said the door remains shut for talks with the US on winding down its atomic arsenal, setting the stage for renewed provocations by pledging to respond to what it saw as threats from Washington. “The DPRK is not interested in any contact or dialogue with the US as long as it pursues its hostile policy ...

  Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese, are planning to go to Washington DC in mid-March potentially to unveil a proposal for Australia’s nuclear submarine project, according to a person familiar with the matter. President Joe Biden will host the British and Australian leaders, and the allies are expected to announce their preferred design ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, exceeded its operational performance targets in 2022. The carrier achieved 80.5% on-time-performance (OTP) for freighter departures and 84.1% OTP for freighter arrivals, ahead of its 80% target. The carrier has also maintained a delivered-as-promised (DAP) rate of 86.6%, a 2.6% improvement compared to the ...