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Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.

BYD Q3 profit down 33%

This was a 33% year-on-year decrease.
  • Companies in the United Arab Emirates are looking to increase their revenues by as much as 50 percent and recruit...

    The research comes as business conditions in the country continue to improve on the back of easing COVID-19 restrictions and reopening of international travel

    UAE businesses are also the most confident globally about driving innovation in product and customer service (67 percent) over the next 12 months

  • S&P Global Ratings has forecast that private sector lending will remain muted for one to two years in GCC countries....

    It said that there had been only marginal improvement across GCC banks overall

    However, it is also expected that GCC economies will expand at an unweighted average of 1.8 percent in 2021 and 4 percent in 2022

  • Egypt and Saudi Arabia have signed a $1.8 billion electricity interconnection project that aims to exchange some 3,000 MW during...

    The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) and the Saudi Electricity Company said they would sign cable, airline and transformer stations agreements

     “Saudi Arabia and Egypt share the same goals, and we work together as a team to implement them”

  • Fertiglobe is a fertilizer partnership of Adnoc and OCI.

    This offering is open to UAE citizens and residents, as well as domestic and international institutional investors

    The offer will open on October 13, subject to regulatory approvals and other relevant considerations

  • Last few years have seen a lot of tension between governments and central banks around the world, on the one...

    Concerns are rising that these currencies could be used to fund illegal actions and for money laundering.

    Several countries have taken strict measures to crack down on the industry that is viewed with suspicion uniformly across the world.

  • Supply-side issues such as semiconductor scarcity and port backlogs may strain supply chains and weigh on trade in particular areas,...

    The forecast projects export volume growth in 2021 will be 9.3% in the Middle East

    The current trade projections, according to the forecast, imply that the ratio of trade growth to GDP growth will rise to 2.0:1 in 2021

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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, 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

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