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Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.

BYD Q3 profit down 33%

This was a 33% year-on-year decrease.
  • The decision to disburse the $246-million World Bank loan in dollars will have a significant impact on the beneficiaries.

    Lebanon had approved a $246-million loan from the World Bank in March this year

    Its disbursal had been held up due to government’s initial decision to disburse the loan in Lebanese pounds

  • Managing Director IMF Kristalina Georgieva said the largest allocation in history, about $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights, was a...

    The IMF's last SDR distribution came in 2009 when member countries received $250 billion in SDR reserves to help ease the global financial crisis.

    The possibility of a new trust is being explored, which could use channeled SDRs to help the most vulnerable countries with structural transformation.

  • As part of its grand "Riyadh Strategy," the kingdom will give the city a complete makeover, building satellite townships, new...

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “Riyadh Strategy” includes satellite townships and new airports, among other state-of-the-art projects

    The Saudi government expects a matching sum of US$220bn from the private sector in its efforts to turn Riyadh into a global city

  • Rights groups have decried an “education catastrophe”, with more than a million children in Lebanon out of school since the...

    Rights groups have decried an “education catastrophe”, with over a million children in Lebanon out of school since the country’s Covid-19 outbreak began in February last year

    Other students are at risk of never returning due to a financial downturn that has seen poverty rates soar to reach 78 percent of the population

  • At 1355 GMT a barrel of WTI, the main US contract, for October delivery was 5.0 percent higher at $65.26...

    At 1355 GMT a barrel of WTI, the main US contract, for October delivery was 5.0 percent higher at $65.26 dollars

    The main international contract, Brent for October delivery was up 4.7 percent at $68.25

  • Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said this assistance would be in the form of low-interest loans.

    The pledge was made during Motegi’s trip to Baghdad, the first by a Japanese foreign minister since 2006

    The financial aid will be used to expand one of Iraq’s major refineries in Basra

  • Bitcoin has been on a rollercoaster this year. After hitting $65,000 in April it tumbled below $29,000 in June, and...

    Bitcoin has been on a rollercoaster this year. After hitting $65,000 in April it tumbled below $29,000 in June, and is now back above $50,000

    In April, PayPal-owned mobile payments service Venmo began letting users in the US buy, hold or sell cryptocurrency using its app

  • The plants will be built on land plots with a total area of 12 million sq m in Jeddah and...

    The projects will be handled through the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones Modon

    They are part of the country’s plan to generate 50 percent of its energy from renewables

  • The period has been extended from August 23, 2021, to February 16, 2022, with violators looking at fines of around...

    The Saudi Ministry of Commerce has already given a six-month grace period once to violators of the anti-concealment law

    Several enterprises, whose annual revenues exceeded SR6 billion ($1.6 billion), benefited from this

  • The unit climbed around two percent to $50,249.15, its highest since mid-May.

    The cryptocurrency has now risen more than 70 percent from the six-month lows below $29,000 touched in June

    Bitcoin was tumbling on a range of issues including China's crackdown on cryptocurrencies since mid-May

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