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Bloomberg Reserve Bank of New Zealand Board Chairman Neil Quigley has blocked media from attending a presentation he will deliver on reforms at the central bank. Quigley is speaking on Tuesday at an Institute of Directors luncheon in Hamilton on “Governance and Decision-Making at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.” The event is open to institute members for NZ$50 ($34) ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE will miss its delivery target for Pratt & Whitney-powered A320neo narrow-body jets this year, after problems with the engines caused an almost three-month halt in shipments, people familiar with the matter said. The Toulouse, France-based planemaker expects to deliver 30 to 40 fewer of the aircraft than it previously anticipated, according to one of the people, who ...

Bloomberg One year after buying a stake in Nestle SA and watching his holding lose value, activist investor Dan Loeb is running out of patience. Loeb fired off a 34-page presentation over the weekend, demanding a far more radical transformation than the world’s largest food company has so far embraced. Accusing Nestle of a “muddled strategic approach” that threatens its ...

Bloomberg Tesco Plc is forming a purchasing alliance with French retailer Carrefour SA to increase its leverage with suppliers in a consolidating and price-squeezed supermarket business. The alliance between two of Europe’s largest retailers, with combined annual sales of about $171 billion, aims to enhance the companies’ clout in buying branded goods and private-label items as competition from discounters like ...

Bloomberg Competition just got even tougher for Air France-KLM as yet another low-cost operator offers cheap transatlantic flights from Paris, while the Franco-Dutch carrier struggles with a top management void and labour strife. British Airways parent IAG SA started discount links between the French capital and Montreal on Monday through its low-cost arm Level, taking direct aim at Air France-KLM ...

Bloomberg Trax, a Singapore-based startup serving the retail industry, raised $125 million in a funding round led by Boyu Capital as it advances plans for an initial public offering. The IPO could take place in the next 18 to 24 months and the company is already in talks with both the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange, CEO Joel Bar-El ...

PUNTLAND / WAM Teams from the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation have begun the distribution of emergency relief assistance to Somali families in villages in Puntland State, northeastern Somalia, as part of phase two of a campaign launched to assist those ravaged by drought in the region. 900 tonnes of food aid is being delivered to help recipients endure ...

Bloomberg BMW AG and Hyundai Motor Co urged the US not to impose tariffs on auto imports, joining General Motors Co in pressing their case to the Commerce Department even as a top aide to President Donald Trump dismissed the concerns as “smoke and mirrors.” “It seems that the threat to impose these sanctions is designed to achieve certain goals,” ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The balance of loans lent by banks operating in the UAE to the industrial and business sectors rose 3.4 percent at the end of May 2018 to AED 774.5 billion, from AED748.9 billion in December 2017, according to figures released by the UAE Central Bank (CBUAE) on Sunday. The two sectors borrowed 48 percent of aggregate ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) is working with the Ministry of Economy (MoE) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to launch a new international initiative to create a platform for funding small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), said Dr Obaid Al Zaabi, CEO of the SCA. In his statement to the Emirates News ...