Aramco net income $28bn
Capital investment during Q3 2025 $12.9bn on investments in energy projects.
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Lufthansa orders planes for $9 bn
The airline ordered 40 planes each from Boeing and Airbus.
- The Airbus planes are intended to be used by Lufthansa's new regional carrier, City Airlines, which is due to start operating in summer 2024.
- The aircraft, the first of which will be delivered in 2026, will be deployed on short-haul routes from Frankfurt and Munich.
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Mubadala Energy makes gas discovery
This is the company's second successful well in the Andaman area.
- The latest discovery comies after the success of Timpan-1 in Andaman-II, which itself came after the success of Cengkih-1 in our SK320 in Malaysia.
- The well encountered an extensive gas column with a thickness of over 230 meters in an Oligocene sandstone reservoir.
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AviLease, SDH Wings Sign MoU
The MoU will expand SDH Wings' portfolio of aircraft.
- AviLease acquired a 10 percent share of SDH Wings as part of the recently completed acquisition of the aircraft leasing platform of Standard Chartered.
- AviLease and SDH Wings have already identified the first five new technology narrowbody aircraft from AviLease’s owned portfolio that are now under LOI.
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Japan’s Nippon to acquire US Steel
Nippon Steel will also assume the US firm's debt.
- Nippon Steel will acquire US Steel in an all-cash deal at $55 per share, a 40 percent premium above its closing price on December 15
- US Steel launched a strategic review in August after receiving several unsolicited offers for a partial or total takeover.
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Abu Dhabi fund CYVN invests $2.2bn in Nio
This follows an earlier investment of $738.5 million by CYVN in July.
- The investment for Nio, one of US-based Tesla's rivals in China, comes as the Shanghai-founded business remains largely loss-making.
- CYVN, an investment vehicle based in Abu Dhabi, had made an investment of $738.5 million by CYVN in July.
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KIPCO sells its stake in GIG
The deal is valued at 256 million Kuwaiti Dinars ($832 million).
- The purchase price was set at KD two per share, with an adjustment of 54 fils per share to account for the cash distributions GIG made in 2022
- The sale of KIPCO's stake in GIG is seen as a testament to the company's effective strategy of acquiring, expanding, and then timely exiting companies
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Hyundai Motor, Mubadala ink MoU
The two firms will seek to unlock investment opportunities.
- The agreement between the two firms will allow both parties to jointly invest and share expertize.
- Hyundai Motor and Mubadala will seek to unlock potential investment opportunities.
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ADNOC to buy stake in Fertiglobe
ADNOC to buy OCI’s entire shareholding in Fertiglobe.
- Fertiglobe is listed on the ADX and is the world’s largest seaborne exporter of urea and ammonia combined.
- It is also an early mover in sustainable ammonia, with production facilities in Egypt, Algeria and the UAE.
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ENEC, CNNC sign MoU
Both the firms will offer their expertise in the sector.
- The two firms will collaborate on identifying potential development and co-investment opportunities for new international nuclear energy plants.
- They will form a Joint Working Group to leverage their strengths in project management, nuclear technology development and implementation.
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ADCB, EIH sign agreement
ADCB to sell 80 percent stake in ADCP to Nine Yards Plus.
- The transaction values ADCP at US$161 million and ADCB will gain of nearly US$133 million subject to closing conditions before end of December 2023.
- ADCB will retain a 20 percent stake in ADCP post transaction and will continue its partnership via a long-term relationship agreement.
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Borouge to increase dividend from 2025
The company okayed $650 million final dividend for 2024.
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Tesla Q1 sales sink 13 percent
The dip occurred amid lower production during factory upgrades.
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Tesla sales tumble in Europe in Q1
The company suffered from boycotts against the policies of Elon Musk.
- Sales of Tesla's electric cars in France fell 36.8 percent in March from a year ago amid a slight drop in the overall electric car market
- In Sweden, Tesla sales declined 63.9 percent in March and 55.2 percent in the first three months of the year, according to Mobility Sweden
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Ford’s US Q1 auto sales dip
But its Q1 figures exceed a forecast by Edmunds
- The automaker reported a 1.3 percent dip in sales in the world's biggest economy, to 501,291 vehicles, compared with the same period in 2024.
- This was mainly due to the discontinuation of certain vehicle models and rental fleet sales timing, the company said.
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Vanke reports annual loss of $6.8 bn
The property giant attributes loss to falling sales and shrinking profit.
- Beijing has in recent years grappled with a prolonged crisis in the country's vast real estate sector, once a key pillar of the economy but now beset with sprawling debt.
- Hong Kong-listed Vanke is part-owned by the government of Shenzhen and was China's fourth-largest real estate firm by sales last year, according to research firm CRIC.

