INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

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

Burjeel profit nearly doubles

Healthcare demand drives stronger earnings.
  • Minus UAE corporate tax, it would have grown by 2.4% to $725m

    The company achieved its highest-ever (EBITDA) of $1.05 billion (AED3.86 billion), an increase of 4.8 percent year-on-year.

    The company's Board of Directors has recommended a cash dividend of $350 million (AED1.285 billion) for H2 2024.

  • After receiving backing from his OpenAI board, Sam Altman informed an Elon Musk-led group of investors that sought to buy...

    Musk is suing OpenAI's restructuring plans from a non-profit to a for-profit

    In a repartee, Altman offered to buy Twitter (X) for US$9.74 billion

  • BYD will install its "God's Eye" autonomous driving system in at least 21 models, including the Seagull budget hatchback priced...

    The company also said it would integrate AI startup Deepseek's software into its cars, following domestic peers such as Geely, Great Wall Motors, and Leapmotor

    BYD is Tesla's biggest rival in China and increasingly abroad, and Monday evening's announcement led analysts to suggest a new price war might be on the horizon

  • Political and tech industry leaders were set to descend on Paris Monday for a two-day summit on artificial intelligence, hoping...

    Macron announces US$113 billion investments in AI in coming years in France

    China is opening an investigation into monopolistic practices by Google

  • The Sukuk were offered in a five-year and a 10-year tranche.

    The five-year tranche of $750 million consists of 3,750 Sukuk based on the minimum denomination and total issue size.

    Maaden said the annual return on the five-year tranche is 5.25 percent and 5.50 percent for the 10-year tranche.

  • Abu Dhabi, UAE - The Ministry of Finance has announced the issuance of Cabinet Decision No. 142 of 2024 on...

    The top-up tax will apply to entities that are members of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) operating in the UAE with annual global revenues of €750 million or more

    To bolster the UAE’s competitiveness as a leading investment hub, the top-up tax has been structured to exclude Investment Entities

  • Amazon and big tech peers Microsoft and Google saw their stock prices fall on concerns over high AI investment costs....

    Meta's stock surged 18 percent in January as investors endorsed its AI strategy

    Amazon forecasts 5-9 percent growth in Q1 2025, with sales between US$151 and US$155.5 billion

  • Public-private partnerships are essential for advancing sustainable urban development and meeting net-zero targets, Vivian Brady Phillips, Head of Strategic Initiatives,...

    Public-private partnerships are essential for advancing sustainable urban development and meeting net-zero targets, Vivian Brady Phillips tells TRENDS

    Technology plays a crucial role in sustainability, enabling energy-efficient operations, smart city connectivity, and digital waste tracking

  • Abu Dhabi, UAE -- UAE's non-oil foreign trade increased by a record 14.6 percent in 2024, compared to 2023, reaching...

    He said that of all the positive indicators, the most encouraging is the increasing contribution of non-oil exports to UAE's foreign trade.

    Last year, they climbed 27.6 percent in to reach a record AED561.2 billion – nearly 70 percent of the AED800 billion target.

  • Revenues grew by 9 percent to $1.42bn from $1.31bn in 2023.

    Total assets reached more than US$13 billion by the end of 2024 compared to US$12.26 billion in 2023.

    DAE said it acquired 83 aircraft (owned: 30; managed: 53) and sold 68 (owned: 19; managed: 49).