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BLOOMBERG Hong Kong’s biggest cosmetics chain plans to open just a handful of new stores this year after shutting dozens during the pandemic as doubts remain that the city will return to its pre-Covid heights as a shopping paradise. The cautious outlook from Sa Sa International Holdings Ltd reflects broader pessimism over the pace of the financial hub’s economic recovery ...

BLOOMBERG US equity futures climbed on investor bets that a peak in interest rates is near and bank turmoil will ease further. European stocks rose and the dollar declined in the risk-on mood. S&P 500 contracts and those on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 advanced at least 0.5% after an earlier rally that pushed the latter into a bull market. Retail ...

BLOOMBERG The Nasdaq 100 is heading for its second-best quarter in a decade  — and it has the Federal Reserve’s recent largess to thank for its gains. The tech gauge soared 17% in the first quarter, buoyed by the Fed’s loosening of its balance sheet after Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse earlier this month led to worries about monetary conditions ...

BLOOMBERG Britain’s ambition to become a “science superpower” will fail unless the government reverses the country’s reputation as a poor place to invest, the head of the UK’s biggest pharmaceutical lobby group has warned. “I’m very concerned about the sentiment towards the UK among global leadership right now,” Richard Torbett, chief executive officer of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical ...

BLOOMBERG The European Union (EU) and the US are nearing an agreement on critical minerals that would provide EU companies access to some of the massive green subsidies offered in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The deal will likely be similar to an agreement the US signed with Japan that also included a commitment to not impose restrictions ...

BLOOMBERG Porsche Automobil Holding SE won a crucial ruling in a €900 million ($976 million) class-action style lawsuit from investors who claimed the company should have warned shareholders about the diesel-emission software rigging at Volkswagen AG. The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court said the company didn’t fail to inform markets about the use of a defeat device at Volkswagen long before ...

BLOOMBERG An India appeals court upheld a fine of about $160 million slapped on Alphabet Inc’s Google by the country’s antitrust regulator, amid growing scrutiny over the company’s ambition to expand the global reach of its Android mobile operating system. Yet in a relief for Google, the court allowed some concessions to corrective measures the antitrust regulator had sought. The ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, in his capacity as Ruler of Abu Dhabi, has issued an Emiri decree restructuring the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi under the chairmanship of His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. The decree stipulates the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Adnoc Logistics & Services (Adnoc L&S) has unveiled its Integrated Logistics Services Platform (ILSP), one of the largest turnkey offshore logistics offerings in the world that enables coordinated end-to-end management of logistics and maritime operations at its base in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi. As part of the launch of the ILSP project, Adnoc L&S confirms that it ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, has issued resolutions, with the approval of the UAE Federal Supreme Council, to appoint His Highness Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Minister of Presidential Court, as UAE Vice President, alongside His Highness Mohammed Bin ...