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Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates will be sharing the legacy of the late His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to a global audience in 2018. To celebrate the ‘Year of Zayed’, Emirates is featuring the achievements of HH Sheikh Zayed in the pages of its official inflight magazine, Open Skies each month. The ‘Year of Zayed’ commences in ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications (RCom) Ltd. said it was in the final stages of selling some assets as it aims to exit a debt restructuring programme and cut total borrowings by $6 billion. The company’s shares surged. The embattled mobile carrier will reduce total debt to 60 billion rupees ($936 million) from 450 billion rupees as of October ...

Bloomberg Nippon Paint Holdings Co. is shopping for large acquisitions, including in Europe, to expand outside Japan amid a global consolidation among the biggest coatings makers. “While our expansion is centred on China and other Asian countries in line with our mid-term plan, we also aim to expand through M&A in Europe and the United States,” Nippon Paint President Tetsushi ...

Bloomberg Tata Steel Ltd. has sounded out banks about raising the equivalent of $5.1 billion through loan facilities and a bond issue to help refinance debt, according to people familiar with the matter. The Indian steelmaker plans a $2.15 billion six-year syndicated facility to refinance loans in the books of units, TS Global Holdings Pte. and NatSteel Asia Pte., said ...

Bloomberg Jiangxi Copper Co., China’s largest producer, is halting all output in the province after the local government ordered the curbs to reduce pollution, a company official said on Tuesday. The smelter received the order to stop production for at least a week before a further assessment based on local pollution levels, the official said, asking not to be identified ...

Bloomberg US technology shares slipped on speculation Apple Inc.’s phone sales will fall short of estimates, with trading volumes thin on the day after Christmas. Oil jumped after reports of a pipeline explosion in Libya. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell while the S&P 500 edged lower, with Apple and some of its suppliers among the worst performers. Energy shares rallied ...

Reuters Saudi Arabia’s stock market rose in a mostly weak Gulf region on Tuesday after data showed deflationary pressure on the economy easing, while Egypt also gained but trading volume remained very low because of the end-of-year holiday period. The Saudi index rose 0.4 percent as real estate developer Dar Al Arkan, the most heavily traded stock, jumped 7.8 percent ...

BEIJING / Reuters Russia held on as China’s largest crude oil supplier for the ninth month in a row in November, also topping Saudi Arabia for the year so far, Chinese customs data showed on Tuesday. Shipments from Russia in November reached 5.12 million tonnes, or 1.26 million barrels per day (bpd), up 11 percent from a year ago, according ...

Bloomberg India’s biggest oil explorer plans to snatch up producing assets to reach its goal of raising overseas output by more than half in about three years, a faster route than drilling for new reserves. ONGC Videsh Ltd., the overseas investment unit of state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp., spent $2.2 billion last year on an existing Russian project, which ...

DUBAI / Reuters Oman will delay the introduction of a 5 percent value-added tax until 2019 instead of introducing it next year as originally planned, local media reported, a decision that may hurt its effort to strengthen shaky state finances. All six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council agreed among themselves to impose VAT at the start of 2018. But ...