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  DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Trade, the premier cross-border trade facilitator, has revealed substantial growth in the number of companies registered and the value of transactions carried out in 2015. There were 113,354 companies registered with Dubai Trade, with over 19.5 million transactions during the year, 5 percent up on 2014. Dubai Trade’s secured ePayment gateway “Rosoom” recorded 1.1million ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Al Gharbia Pipe Company, a joint venture between Senaat, one of the largest industrial holding companies in the UAE, and two of Japan’s leading companies in the steel sector; JFE Steel Corporation and Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. (MISI), has broken ground in the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad). Al Gharbia will be the UAE’s ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Ducab, the UAE-based leading manufacturer of high-quality cables and cabling products, is demonstrating how industrial solutions answer real-world problems at the Think Science Competition Exhibition. The fourth edition of the competition and exhibition, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of Emirates Foundation, ...

Kuala Lumpur / Bloomberg Malaysia will meet its economic expansion target this year even as risks to global growth mount and greater volatility may persist in capital flows, central bank Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said. Price pressures are “quite contained” due to lower fuel and commodity costs and slightly slower demand, Zeti said in an interview in Washington. Until there ...

  Bangalore / Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. and its competitor in India, Ola, have had cars seized this week in the country’s technology capital of Bangalore for allegedly overcharging customers, a city transport official said. More than 30 Uber and Ola vehicles have been impounded, said Rame Gowda, the Bangalore-based commissioner of transport and road safety. He said operations against ...

  New Delhi / AFP India’s biggest IT outsourcing firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) says it will challenge $940 million in damages imposed by a US court in an intellectual property theft case. A federal grand jury in the US state of Wisconsin found TCS and its American unit guilty of using data from a US medical software firm without ...

  New Delhi / Bloomberg As Bharti Airtel Ltd. prepares for more competition from the nation’s richest man, the government may be bracing for collateral damage. That’s because India’s largest mobile-phone carrier has bought enough airwaves in the past month to be able to provide 4G services everywhere in the country, reducing Bharti’s need to bid for spectrum in an ...

Bloomberg Global finance ministers and central bankers pledged to step up their efforts to support growth, as chances rise of a broader slowdown and risks including refugee crises and a potential U.K. exit from the European Union threaten the world economy. “Downside risks to the global economic outlook have increased since October, raising the possibility of a more generalized slowdown ...

  AP U.S. factory output dropped in March for the second straight month as manufacturers churned out fewer cars, metal parts and machinery. Yet other recent data suggests that the sector’s long-running malaise could brighten in the coming months. Factory production fell 0.3 percent last month, following a 0.1 percent drop in February, the Federal Reserve said. Those figures suggest ...

Bloomberg Two big firms, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., have two pretty divergent opinions about what you should own in the U.S. stock market right now. So far, the dollar is making the difference in who’s right. Custom indexes maintained by both banks give the advantage to Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, the JPMorgan chief U.S. equity strategist who ...