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Tesla Q1 sales sink 13 percent

The dip occurred amid lower production during factory upgrades.

AD Ports Group 2024 revenue $4.70bn

The Group's EBITDA increased by 69 percent YOY.

Tesla sales tumble in Europe in Q1

The company suffered from boycotts against the policies of Elon Musk.

Ford’s US Q1 auto sales dip

But its Q1 figures exceed a forecast by Edmunds

Vanke reports annual loss of $6.8 bn

The property giant attributes loss to falling sales and shrinking profit.
  • FB family of apps return online after seven hours

    Users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp across the world, including the Gulf countries, remained heavily affected for hours.

    The outage was first reported at around 1545 GMT or 7.45pm UAE time

    Washington, Paris, Dubai and Delhi were few major cities that remained affected

  • World airlines commit to ‘net zero’ CO2 emissions by 2050

    The world's airlines made a joint pledge Monday to reach "net zero" CO2 by 2050, as the aviation industry ramps...

    "The important decision that we must make today will secure the freedom to fly for future generations"

    IATA represents 290 member airlines comprising 82 percent of pre-pandemic global air traffic

  • DMCC registers best nine-month performance

    The DMCC welcomed around 1,800 companies to Dubai from Q1 to Q3 this year.

    DMCC last month welcomed 215 new businesses to its free zone and business district in the best September performance since inception

    This year also saw its best H1 performance since 2013; its best June and August performances on record are also from this year

  • Alturki Holding oil arm buys out US drilling firm Newsco for undisclosed sum

    Alturki Holding oil arm, the Saudi Sawafi company, has bought out Newsco, the US drilling services company, for an undisclosed...

    Newsco is one of the most important directional drilling companies in the petroleum industry in the world

    Sawafi, the global leader in upstream technologies, will now control about 9 patents in directional drilling

  • Central Bank of UAE penalizes six exchanges for flouting rules on money laundering

    The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has penalized six exchange houses for flouting rules to combat money laundering...

    The sanctions imposed last month followed the exchange houses’ failures to comply with AML & Sanctions Compliance Frameworks by end-2019

    The UAE has in recent months beefed up regulations targeted at banks and financial institutions to combat and prevent money laundering

  • Home buyers in Middle East long for a villa in the countryside

    Home buyers in the Middle East are looking to settle in rural areas and possess bigger homes than they have...

    Around 57 percent of respondents in the region said they would be most likely to buy a villa

    Half of the respondents cited the energy efficiency of their home being a “very important” issue

  • TMG of Egypt looks to take advantage of demand for housing in Saudi Arabia and Iraq

    Talaat Moustafa Group, the Egyptian real estate company, is looking to expand into Saudi Arabia and Iraq to take advantage...

    TMG has formed a committee to study investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia and Iraq

    The company recently proposed the Nour City project, east of the capital Cairo

  • Art sales rebound to an all-time high of $2.7 billion after Covid-19 slump

    Sales soared between June 2020 and June 2021 as auctioneers quickly adopted a more online approach.

    NFTs, or "non-fungible tokens", allow people to buy the rights to online art, including images, animation or even tweets.

    In March, US artist Beeple sold an NFT of his digital artwork "Everydays: The First 5,000 Days" for $69.3 million.

  • Outdoor ad firm Al Arabiya announces IPO

    The company expects to sell 30 percent of its shares in the offering.

    The IPO is expected from Oct. 22 to Oct. 26 and a book-building process will determine offer price per share.

    In June, the Capital Market Authority had approved the company's request for the IPO.

  • Emirates and Qantas extend partnership

    Together, the airlines are making millions of reward seats available for frequent flyers to access more than 100 destinations.

    For Emirates customers, the deal provides access to over 55 Australian destinations to where Emirates does not fly

    Qantas customers are able to fly on Emirates to Dubai and access over 50 cities in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, to where Qantas does not fly

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