Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc fell the most in more than a year after the in-flight shutdown of one of its engines on an Airbus SE A350 jet raised concerns that the model may be the latest afflicted by a design defect. The captain of the Iberia flight from New York to Madrid made an emergency landing in Boston 1 1/2 ...
Read More »Only London – S’pore budget flight scrapped
Bloomberg The only budget flights between London and Singapore will end in January when Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA scraps the long-haul route little more than a year after it started. The last flight to London will leave Singapore on January 11, according to Norwegian’s customer booking line. The airline’s website shows no flights on the route beyond that month. The ...
Read More »Hermes posts record H1 profitability on China boom
Bloomberg Hermes International reported record first-half profitability as the maker of $10,000-plus Birkin handbags benefited from brisk sales in China, a trend that shows no sign of easing off even as stock prices slump in the Asian nation. Recurring operating income amounted to 34.5 percent of sales, up 0.2 point, the Paris-based company said in a statement. Analysts predicted 34.4 ...
Read More »Amazon business supply programme may reach $25bn
Bloomberg Schools, hospitals and governments have quickly embraced Amazon.com Inc. as a go-to source for supplies, propelling the company’s three-year-old business platform into a $10 billion annual enterprise. Its success may soon provide as much revenue as the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing division and its digital-advertising services. The e-commerce giant likely will keep expanding the business service internationally — currently ...
Read More »Arab League condemns closure of PLO office in US
CAIRO / WAM The Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmad Aboul Gheit condemned on Tuesday the US administration’s decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO), office in Washington. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Aboul Gheit said that the decision came as part of a long series of US unfair policies towards the Palestinians aiming at terminating their ...
Read More »Emaar denies offering 10-year visa to investors
Bloomberg Dubai’s Emaar Properties PJSC denied reports that it’ll provide 10-year visas to investors in some of its projects. “The issuance of visas falls under the purview of the concerned authorities and Emaar does not have any role regarding the same,” the company said in a statement. Al Bayan newspaper reported on Tuesday that the developer will offer 10-year visas ...
Read More »Trade war may cost China 700,000 jobs: JP Morgan
Bloomberg The tariff battle with the US will probably cost China 700,000 jobs, or more in the event of further escalation. The job losses would come if the US imposes 25 percent tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese exports and China retaliates by devaluing its currency by 5 percent and adding to levies on US goods, according to economists led ...
Read More »Abu Dhabi exchange to launch futures trading
Bloomberg Abu Dhabi’s stock exchange is joining a race to introduce derivatives as Gulf bourses including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia put strategies in place to lure more investors. The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) plans to enable trading of futures contracts on single stocks in 2019, and they may eventually be available for the benchmark ADX General Index, Chief Executive ...
Read More »DP World to defend its rights in Djibouti port
DUBAI / WAM DP World said on Tuesday that it will continue to pursue all legal means to defend its rights as a shareholder and concessionaire in Doraleh Container Terminal SA in face of Djibouti’s blatant disregard for the rule of law and respect for commercial contracts. On September 9 the President of Djibouti enacted a decree which purportedly transferred ...
Read More »Abu Dhabi Ports, Kizad eye China opportunities
Abu Dhabi / WAM Following China President Xi Jinping’s historic visit to the UAE in July, senior representatives at Abu Dhabi Ports and Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad), visited Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, to bolster growing trade relations. During the China-UAE Industrial Capacity Cooperation Demonstration Zone Investment Promotion Conference, industry leaders, government officials and private sector decision makers gathered to ...
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