INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Mashreq Q1 profit rises

Total revenue increased 10% year-on-year.

TECOM profit climbs

High occupancy across assets boosts earnings.

Emirates Stallions Q1 revenue up 11%

The rise helped by strong demand in real estate

ADNOC Distribution 2025 dividend $700m

The company had reported EBITDA of $1.17 bn in 2025.

Empower okays $119.1m H2 2025 dividend

The dividend is equivalent to 43.75% of paid-up capital.
  • Busan, South Korea -- Rows of coffins line a university classroom in the South Korean port city of Busan, ready...

    Single-person households now account for around 42 percent of all homes in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

    A new profession has emerged reflecting that statistic: cleaners who are called in to tidy up homes after their occupants, most of whom lived alone, have died.

  • El Dorado Hills, United States -- Matt James has collected gold nuggets for years from the hills and riverbeds of...

    Though the value has fluctuated, it has effectively doubled in the last two years, reaching an all-time high of more than $4,380 an ounce in October.

    The Gold Rush transformed California, known as the Golden State, and many towns in the Sierra Nevada are working to keep that moment in history alive.

  • Dubai, UAE - Deloitte Middle East has announced the launch of its Middle East Centre of Excellence for Oracle AI...

    The center offers a dedicated regional hub to develop and deploy Oracle AI Agents across public and private sectors

    It combines global expertise with local industry experience to advance agentic AI in the Middle East

  • New York, United States -- Meta raised $30 billion in debt on Thursday, as tech giants flush with cash turn...

    Meta raised $30 billion in debt and demand for its bonds was reportedly four times greater than supply.

    The $30 billion in bonds scheduled to be repaid over the course of decades is intended to provide money to continue a breakneck pace of AI development.

  • San Francisco, United States - Amazon's share price skyrocketed by more than ten percent on Thursday after the online retail...

    The e-commerce giant's Amazon Web Services division, which recently suffered a global outage, saw revenues jump 20 percent to $33 billion in the third quarter

    Amazon's major rivals in the cloud computing space, Microsoft and Google, on Wednesday also reported sales increases in their cloud computing business

  • Paris, France -- French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies reported on Thursday a sharp increase in third-quarter net profit despite...

    The company said net income grew around 61 percent to $3.7 billion compared to the same period last year, even as oil prices fell by more than $10 per barrel year-on-year.

    TotalEnergies shares were down 1.4 percent in afternoon trading while the Paris stock exchange's blue-chip CAC 40 index was 0.7 lower.

  • This was a 33% year-on-year decrease.

    The Shenzhen-based firm recorded revenue of 195 billion yuan over the same period, a slight decrease of 3 percent year-on-year.

    China's EV industry is world-leading but a cutthroat domestic market has weighed on companies' profitability.

  • New York, United States -- AI chip juggernaut Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company on Wednesday, as investors...

    By way of comparison, the level was greater than the GDP of France or Germany or higher than that of Tesla, Meta (Facebook), and Netflix combined.

    Microsoft and Apple, the two other largest global market capitalizations, only just exceed $4 trillion in valuation each.

  • San Francisco, United States - Microsoft and OpenAI announced Tuesday a sweeping overhaul of their landmark artificial intelligence (AI) partnership,...

    OpenAI has also committed to purchasing $250 billion in Azure cloud services from the tech giant, though Microsoft no longer holds first refusal rights as OpenAI's compute provider

    The partnership began in 2019 when Microsoft invested $1 billion in what was then a small AI research organization founded in 2015 by tech luminaries including Elon Musk

  • Nvidia share price soars 20%.

    It said it would issue more than 166 million new shares, for which Nvidia would pay $6.01 per share.

    Under the partnership, Nokia "intends to increase its presence in the AI and cloud market with data center aligned networking solutions."