INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Borouge okays $656m dividend

The company said dividend reflects its resilience

DEWA posts record H1 profit

Revenue reaches record $4.04 billion.

Tabreed H1 revenue $308m

Blurb: Profit reaches $52 million in H1

ADNOC L&S to expand fleet

It will acquire 11 carriers for $1.3bn.

Empower profit climbs 16%

Dubai district cooling demand lifts earnings
  • Cryptocurrencies seem to be the flavor of the season as increasingly more people around the world are embracing them; sometimes...

    Though the concept of crypto (as they are informally called) investment seems novel, the first cryptocurrency came into the market more than a decade back

    One cryptocurrency, recently launched, is destined to change all that, and is already making waves around the world as people are lapping it up in droves.

  • Iran produced 2.485 million barrels per day or bpd of crude oil in July, according to OPEC’s latest monthly report.

    The country’s average crude output for the second quarter of 2021 stood at 2.443 million bpd

    This indicated a 224,000-bpd increase compared to the figure for the first quarter of the year

  • Ever Given, the ship that caused the closure of the Suez Canal for six long days in March, has crossed...

    The ship, en route from the United Kingdom to China, crossed the canal among a convoy of 26 vessels

    A group of SCA senior pilots and two tugboats escorted the Ever Given throughout its journey through the canal

  • Russia, the largest exporter of wheat in the world, has been looking to enter the market for quite some time.

    This is expected to mark the first entry of Russian wheat in the Algerian market

    Algeria has so far imported wheat mostly from France

  • Fresh water resources are becoming scarce due to drought in Egypt, which is more than 90% dependent on the Nile...

    The plants will supply drinking water to people in a country where potable water is often not very readily available

    This move is the latest in Egypt’s list of initiatives to improve the supply of drinking water to its people

  • Abu Dhabi will be effectively out of bounds for unvaccinated people from Friday in order to curb the transmission of...

    The unvaccinated are effectively barred from entering any business in the UAE capital except for supermarkets and pharmacies

    People will be required to prove they have been vaccinated before being allowed into venues

  • Facebook has announced that it will join hands with an online Indian lending firm to help provide loans to small...

    The social media giant is joining hands with Indifi to help provide loans ranging from 500,000 rupees to 5,000,000 rupees ($6,719-$67,191) at annual interest rates of up to 20%

    Facebook said it would pay off to bolster the small business economy in India as these companies will use its apps including Instagram and WhatsApp to boost their growth

  • Emirates has announced that from October 1 it will undo all changes to employee pay structure that it undertook to...

    The new changes will take effect from October 1

    ""We will better recognize our internal talent by increasing the salary increment opportunity on promotion for core grades"

  • Saudi Arabia will start giving out professional licenses from next year in order to improve the quality of its domestic...

    The Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing for regulating city operators will start the first phase of issuing professional licenses for 16 professions

    The major professions for which the ministry is seeking to introduce mandatory professional license in a phased manner consist of technicians, construction workers

  • Saudi Arabia has filed a World Trade Organization complaint over EU anti-dumping duties on imports of a chemical compound used...

    In the complaint, dated Aug. 17 but circulated to WTO members on Thursday, Saudi Arabia charges that the EU unfairly imposed provisional anti-dumping duties

    The chemical compound is used in a variety of industrial processes, including to produce polyester fibers and components for manufacturing plastic bottles