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ADNOC Gas to pay $3.41bn dividend
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Ghitha Holding Q3 profit of $33m
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Bayanat AI IPO tranche oversubscribed
The offering saw significant demand and commitment from IHC.
- The subscription period ends on 25 October 2022 while the listing of shares and trading on ADX is anticipated on 31 October 2022.
- Dubai Islamic Bank is the Lead Manager, and First Abu Dhabi Bank is acting as the Lead Receiving Bank. International Securities are the Lead Placement Agent on the IPO.
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Credit Suisse sells 8.6% stake in Allfunds
Bank raised US$325m from its stake sale of Spanish firm.
- Credit Suisse acquired the minority stake in 2020 after selling its business-to-business investment fund platform, InvestLab, to Allfunds.
- The bank was rocked last year by the collapse of the British financial firm Greensill.
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Arada closes $100m tap on its Sukuk
Its existing Sukuk valued $350m was issued in June.
- The tap was priced at 99 cents on the dollar, with an investor yield of 8.386 percent.
- Arada said the tap witnessed demand from the global finance markets, with a lead order of US$185 million.
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Dlala Holding to resume trading
The authorized capital of the company is US$78 million.
- The QSE announced after completing the process of reducing the company's issued capital from 284.16 million shares to 190.387 million shares.
- Dlala Holding Company was established and listed on Qatar Stock Exchange in 2005.
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EasyLease net profit $8.91m
The total revenue in Q3 ended Sept reached AED156.11 million
- The company will reach 30,000 motorbikes by the end of 2022, doubling the size of its fleet from a year earlier.
- Easy Lease said it will open local offices in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain before the end of this year, targeting a 10 percent share by the end of 2023 of the Saudi Arabian market.
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Medicare net profit up 4.58% in first nine months of 2022
The earnings per share amounted to $0.54.
- Data issued by the company, published on Qatar Stock Exchange website, Thursday, indicated that earnings per share amounted to $0.54
- The Group was established in 1996, and was listed on Qatar Stock Exchange in 1997, with a capital of $77 million
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Nokia Q3 profit at $419m
The Finnish company reports net sales of $6billion.
- Finn company Nokia reported a 22-percent rise in profit to $419 million
- Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark said the quarter demonstrated that he was delivering on the ambition to accelerate growth.
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Ericsson Q3 profit at $480m
Firm is making 'pricing adjustments' as inflation soars.
- Ericsson's shares closed down 15 percent on the Stockholm stock exchange.
- The lower profits were partly due to Ericsson's $6.2 billion acquisition of US cloud communications company Vonage.
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SABB nine-month net profit $926m
The net profit for the same period last year was $738m.
- The bank said the total operating profit grew 19 percent to SAR 6,966 million and net special commission income grew 19 percent to SAR 5,117 million.
- SABB’s shareholders’ equity remained stable at SAR 53 billion with total assets of SAR 300 billion, said Lubna Olayan, Chair of the Board of Directors SABB.
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American Airlines posts Q3 profit of US$483m
American Airlines third quarter revenues rose to $13.5 billion.
- American scored a 13 percent jump in revenues compared with the 2019 period on high ticket prices.
- US carriers have begun to prosper in 2022 as more governments pare back restrictions.
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Volkswagen to reduce workforce
Volkswagen has some 675,800 employees worldwide.
- "Over the coming years, we will need to reduce our workforce in a socially responsible way," the group's human resources chief Gunnar Kilian said
- The focus would be on "partial retirement and early retirement schemes to the maximum extent possible," he added
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BAT takes shock $32bn hit
The impairment charge sent BAT shares sinking 7.6 percent.
- Companies like BAT face plunging demand for cigarettes in Western markets, where high taxes, smoking bans and health fears persuade many consumers to give up smoking
- The London-listed company added that its overall revenue growth for the current year was set to be at the "low end" of its previous guidance of between 3 and 5 percent
Musk’s AI startup to raise $1bn
He hopes it will compete with ChatGPT's Open AI.
- An official filing to US Securities and Exchange Commission said xAI artificial intelligence company had already gathered $134.7 million and plans to raise $1 billion overall
- The filing added that there was a firm agreement to raise the full funds needed to meet the target, indicating that Musk may have deals in place for the full billion

