The Gulf Time Newspaper One of the finest business newspapers in the UAE brought to you by our professional writers and editors.

Bloomberg The family that controls Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India’s largest private hospital chain, is looking to sell assets or bring an outside investor into their holding company to pay down debt. The aim is to reduce the Apollo shares pledged by the family as collateral to lenders, to 20 percent of their total holding in the company from about ...

Bloomberg India may spin off units of Coal India Ltd, the world’s largest coal miner, into separate listed companies to boost competition and raise government funds, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The state-run company and the coal ministry are studying a proposal by the finance ministry’s Department of Investment & Public Asset Management to list four of ...

Bloomberg Chinese video-game live-streaming platform DouYu International Holdings Ltd and its shareholders raised $775 million after pricing its US initial public offering at the bottom of its marketed range. The company, which delayed its IPO amid market jitters in May, sold 44.9 million American depository shares for $11.50 each, according to a statement. Its existing investors sold 22.5 million shares ...

Bloomberg A French-US clash over digital taxation overshadowed the start of a Group of Seven (G-7) finance chiefs meeting as France refused to flinch on its levy that would hit tech giants from Facebook to Alphabet’s Google. Just before an encounter with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the G-7 near Paris, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire pledged to ...

Bloomberg Ericsson AB posted earnings that missed analyst estimates for the first time in six quarters and warned its rollout of 5G mobile networks in Asia would weigh on profits, in a rare setback to CEO Borje Ekholm’s turnaround efforts. With Ericsson battling Finland’s Nokia Oyj and China’s Huawei Technologies Co for pole position in 5G, Ericsson said the first ...

Bloomberg Siemens AG will resume deliveries on a 6 billion-euro ($6.7 billion) high-speed train order from its biggest customer, Deutsche Bahn AG, ending a three-month freeze that followed the discovery of an equipment fault, according to a person familiar with the matter. An announcement of the resumption in the handover of its flagship ICE 4 trains to the German rail ...

Bloomberg US new-home construction fell in June for a second month as a drop in apartment building outweighed a pickup in single-family projects. Residential starts declined 0.9 percent to a 1.25 million annualised rate, the slowest in three months, according to government figures. Permits, a proxy for future construction, dropped 6.1 percent to a 1.22 million rate, also reflecting a ...

Bloomberg European car registrations fell sharply in June, resuming a downward spiral this year that has seen profit warnings at German manufacturer Daimler AG and a quarterly automotive division loss at rival BMW AG. Sales dropped 7.9 percent to 1.49 million cars, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said, the worst monthly decline since December. France and Spain had falls of ...

Bloomberg Blue Apron Holdings Inc rallied the most since going public two years ago after announcing a tie-up with a hot brand: Beyond Meat Inc. The struggling meal-kit company will begin introducing products from the alternative-meat startup on its menus in August, New York-based Blue Apron said in a statement. The shares rose as much as 78 percent, their biggest ...

Bloomberg The Democratic-led House responded to Donald Trump’s sustained attacks on four female Democratic lawmakers by taking the extraordinary step of rebuking the president for racism. The resolution — backed by all 235 Democrats, four Republicans and one independent — accused the president of having “legitimised and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of colour,” a serious ...