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Bloomberg Nokia Oyj plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs in the coming years as the telecommunications equipment maker looks for new ways to save money and stay competitive with rival Ericsson AB. The measures are intended to cut 600 million euros ($715 million) off Nokia’s cost base by the end of 2023, the Finnish company said in a statement ...

Bloomberg Canada’s labour market roared back to life in February after authorities began lifting lockdowns, a striking sign of the nation’s economic resilience to the second wave of pandemic. The economy added 259,200 jobs in February, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa, well ahead of expectations for a 75,000 gain. It’s the first month of gains since November, when a new ...

Bloomberg Trading platform eToro, a rival to Robinhood Markets Inc., plans to go public via a merger with a blank-check firm led by serial deal-maker Betsy Cohen, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The deal with FinTech Acquisition Corp. V will value the combined company at about $10 billion, the people said, asking not to be identified. The ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. reached a multiyear deal with News Corp. in Australia, agreeing to pay Rupert Murdoch’s publishing arm for access to additional stories. The agreement resolves a dispute in the country between publishers and tech giants over payments for news articles. The deal includes content from News Corp.’s national newspaper, The Australian, as well as the Daily Telegraph in ...

Bloomberg European stocks opened higher as investors looked past turmoil in vaccine rollouts towards the prospects for economic recovery in the region. The Stoxx 600 Index rose 0.4%, with virtually all sectors in the green, including travel and leisure shares which have erased their pandemic losses. Germany, France and Italy decided in a coordinated step to suspend the AstraZeneca Plc ...

Bloomberg China Mobile Ltd. is considering an A-share listing after the country’s largest wireless carrier was removed from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under a Donald Trump-era investment ban, according to people familiar with the matter. The state-owned firm has discussed the potential offering with advisers as it looks for new avenues to fund its 5G network development, said ...

GAZA / WAM The UAE has sent a second shipment of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Health Ministry received the shipment of 38,700 doses through the Rafah Border Crossing. In a press release, the ministry expressed its thanks and gratitude to the UAE for this assistance, which strengthens health measures in the face of ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Land Department (DLD) has released the findings of its real estate bulletin, which reflected the flexibility of Dubai’s real estate sector since the beginning of 2021 and its adaptation to current circumstances related to the outbreak of Covid-19. According to real estate bulletin, titled, ‘Real Estate Updates,’ 3,036 new investors entered the market in January and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Deposits by individuals continued to rise in UAE banks during the last quarter of 2020, hitting around AED13 billion despite economic challenges, statistics by the central bank of the UAE have showed. This ratcheted the cumulative balance of deposits in UAE banks up to AED493.9 billion by the end of December from AED480.9 billion in September ...

DUBAI / WAM The Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) on Monday announced that private schools in Dubai will not be increasing tuition fees for the 2021-22 academic year. This is the second consecutive year that fees for Dubai schools have remained steady. Dubai’s private school sector demonstrated its resilience and growth potential with student enrolment increasing by 2.6 percent ...