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Bloomberg AT&T Inc. sales and earnings missed analysts’ estimates last quarter, putting additional pressure on the company to complete its Time Warner Inc. takeover and transition into a more diversified media giant. Earnings amounted to 85 cents a share in the quarter, excluding some items, the carrier said . That fell short of the average prediction of 88 cents, sending ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE plans to cap its takeover of the Bombardier Inc. C Series jetliner by scrapping the Canadian plane’s 14-year-old branding, people familiar with the plan said. Among the names under consideration for a plane in which Bombardier invested more than $6 billion is “A200,” according to the people, who asked not to be identified as no decision has ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp. will reduce flights out of Long Beach by more than a third, after the California city blocked the carrier’s plans to add international flights, leaving a hole in its network from southern California. Daily departures from Long Beach will drop to 23 from 35 starting from September 5, JetBlue said in a statement. The move is ...

Bloomberg Steinhoff International Holdings NV ex-Chairman Christo Wiese is suing the scandal-hit retailer for $4.8 billion as the South African billionaire seeks to recoup investments he made in the company in 2015 and 2016. The retail tycoon was the biggest shareholder in the owner of Conforama in France and Mattress Firm in the US when the company reported a hole ...

Bloomberg InterGlobe Aviation Ltd.’s billionaire director Rahul Bhatia has taken over as interim chief executive officer after its president and director Aditya Ghosh unexpectedly resigned before a board meeting, the operator of India’s biggest airline said in an exchange filing. Ghosh is leaving at a time when the airline is changing some of its most successful policies such as moving ...

Bloomberg Paul Singer’s activist hedge fund, best known for its jousts with underperforming corporate titans, is about to start selling books in the UK. Elliott Advisors, a unit of Elliott Management Corp., has entered a binding agreement to acquire Waterstones from Alexander Mamut’s Lynwood Investments, the bookseller said in a statement. Waterstones operates a chain of 283 bookshops in the ...

MEXICO CITY / WAM The UAE Ambassador to Mexico Ahmed Hatem Al Menhali met with Mexico’s Secretary of Tourism Enrique de la Madrid Cordero in the country’s Ministry for Tourism located in Mexico City, to discuss a number of issues of common interest. The two sides reviewed ways to enhance relations, namely boosting bilateral tourism between the UAE and Mexico ...

DUBAI / WAM National Bank of Fujairah (NBF) announced that it achieved to AED145.4 million in net profits in Q1 2018, with 15.3 percent rise compared to AED126.1 million in the corresponding period of 2017. Easa Saleh Al Gurg, NBF Deputy Chairman, said, “This reflects solid core business growth and proactive asset and liability management, the bank said in statement. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) celebrated the joining of Shuaa Capital’s brokerage subsidiary ‘Integrated Securities’ to the list of companies providing the technical short selling (TSS) service at the exchange. This makes Integrated Securities the third company to provide such service on the ADX. The ceremony included ringing of the opening bell on the ADX trading ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Muslim travellers will spend $157 billion by 2020, driven by millennial travellers and the top outbound market remains Saudi Arabia, which will grow 17 percent over the next three years alone, to reach $27.9 billion. The figures were released during Arabian Travel Market’s Global Halal Tourism Summit 2018, which was held at the Dubai World Trade ...