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Bloomberg Central banks in emerging economies are losing the battle with markets as their efforts to shield their currencies struggle for traction, suggesting policy makers have more work to do. Rising US interest rates, the strong dollar, higher oil prices, China’s market and economic wobbles and fears of a global trade war are conspiring to pressure emerging-market currencies. Here’s a ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is buying its way into the heart of the US healthcare system, instantly shaking up a prescription-drug industry already in the midst of a broader transformation. Insurance companies and drug-benefit managers have struck a series of deals in recent months designed in part to thwart a potential big splash in the health world from Amazon. But the ...

Bloomberg MAV Beauty Brands Inc., the personal-care company founded by celebrity hairstylist Marc Anthony Venere, raised C$242 million ($182 million) in its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the sale. The Toronto-based firm priced its shares at C$14 each, the low end of its marketed range of C$14 to C$16, the people said, asking not to be identified ...

Bloomberg Fastjet Plc dropped 48 percent in London trading after saying it needs to raise further funds to survive as it runs short of cash and losses mount. A cash balance that stood at $7.5 million on May 24 had shrunk to $3.3 million as of June 18 following spending on aircraft, and Fastjet is struggling to access some loan ...

Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc revived long-shelved plans to expand its network by proposing to buy as many as 10 Boeing Co. 737 Max aircraft as part of a five-year strategy. The move follows three consecutive years of losses caused by a poorly executed expansion strategy and fuel-hedging contracts that saw it miss out on rock-bottom oil prices. The losses forced ...

Bloomberg Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise will reintroduce flights to Eritrea by mid-September, two decades after a border conflict upended relations between the Horn of Africa neighbours. “Ethiopian Airlines get ready because soon you’ll start going to Eritrea and coming back,” PM Abiy Ahmed said in Addis Ababa. “Let us not transfer to our children hatred and the holding of grudges.” Ethiopian ...

Bloomberg Fuel prices are up, the US dollar is rallying and that means stormy skies for Brazilian airlines. Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA is leading Brazil’s Ibovespa index losses month-to-date, with a 21 percent drop so far. The company is also heading for its biggest quarterly drop since its initial public offering in 2004. Gol and Azul SA are down ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) recorded its best H1 ever in its 13-year history, trading over 11,300,000 contracts so far in 2018, up 44 percent year-on-year (y-o-y). Traded value for the first six months of 2018 breached $250 billion for the first time too. The exchange’s record-breaking performance was sealed following a robust month of trading ...

ABU DHABI / WAM ADIB Securities, the brokerage subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a leading financial institution, has laun- ched services for clients to trade equities on US markets, including the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The new offering will enable customers to buy and sell Sharia’a-compliant stocks through ADIB Securities’ leading digital and traditional trading channels. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) revealed that it has saved AED1.058 billion as a result of applying sustainability standards to various types of infrastructural projects. The achievement is marked by the implementation of the standards of value engineering and sustainability during the initial designs phases of the municipal projects. The ADM started implementation of sustainability ...