Bloomberg Global bond yields surged and stocks extended declines at the end of a week that underscored expectations for tighter monetary policy and a slowing economy. A dollar gauge rose to yet another record and 10-year Treasury yields to the highest in more than a decade, while UK bonds plunged and the pound fell as markets priced in a ...
Read More »Crypto outperforms stocks for a change as correlation breaks
Bloomberg Cryptocurrencies outperformed US equities for a change, with Bitcoin and Ether gaining for the first time in five days. Bitcoin, the largest virtual currency by market value, rose about 2% to $19,2912 in New York. Earlier, it slid as much as 4% toward a three-month low. Ether rose about 1.5%. It had dropped as much as 20% since a ...
Read More »Renewable energy jobs reached 12.7 million globally, says Irena
ABU DHABI / WAM Worldwide employment in renewable energy reached 12.7 million last year, a jump of 700,000 new jobs in one year, despite the lingering effects of Covid-19 and the growing energy crisis, according to the “Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review 2022” report. The report identifies domestic market size as a major factor influencing employment generation in ...
Read More »Dana Gas to pay AED315m cash dividends for H1 2022
SHARJAH / WAM Dana Gas on Thursday announced that its Board of Directors has approved an interim dividend payment to shareholders for the first six months of 2022 of 4.5 fils per share, equivalent to AED315 million, for distribution by the 21st of October 2022. Hamid Jafar, Chairman of the Board, commented, “Today’s interim dividend announcement reflects our ongoing ...
Read More »Gulf central banks hike interest rates
ABU DHABI / WAM The central banks of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain have decided to raise their interest rates, tracking a hike in the US Fed’s benchmark rate. The move came as the US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to a range of 3.00%-3.25% on Wednesday- the biggest increase ...
Read More »United staff at Heathrow to vote on strike over pay
Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc faces potential disruption in one of its most lucrative overseas markets as 300 workers at London’s Heathrow airport begin voting in a strike ballot over pay. The poll of staff employed in operations, customer services and baggage handling will run until October 11, the Unite union said in a statement. United’s UK employees are in ...
Read More »Airbus wins $4.85b China jets deal in blow to Boeing
Bloomberg Airbus SE won a $4.85 billion deal to supply 40 airliners to a unit of China Southern Airlines Co, cementing its position in one of the world’s biggest aviation markets at the expense of chief rival Boeing Co. Xiamen Air, which has been an all-Boeing operator, agreed to buy Airbus’s A320neo narrow-body jets, according to a stock exchange ...
Read More »Taiwan may scrap quarantine for arrivals about mid-October
Bloomberg Taiwan may scrap its three-day quarantine requirement for arrivals around mid-October if the pandemic continues to ease, as the island joins other regional holdouts moving to reopen their borders to travelers. The government will monitor the situation for another week, and plans to announce the easing two weeks ahead of the scheduled implementation, meaning the new rules would ...
Read More »American says work-leisure trips fuelling sales growth
Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc says the carrier’s revenue expansion is coming from an increasing number of trips that mix business and leisure. The number of such trips has almost doubled over about the last nine months and now accounts for about 50% of revenue, Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja said at Skift Global Forum in New York. Passengers ...
Read More »Walmart wants to hire 40,000 holiday workers this year
Bloomberg Walmart Inc, the largest private-sector employer in the US, aims to hire 40,000 seasonal workers for the holiday season this year — a sizable decrease from 2021. A year ago, the retail giant said it would add 150,000 jobs, many of them permanent, during the year’s busiest shopping season. In the coming months, Walmart will start by offering ...
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