Tue, 2020-04-07 10:54DUBAI: The jobs and livelihoods of some 300m people are at risk in the current crisis in the global oil business, according to Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).Speaking exclusively to…
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Tue, 2020-04-07 10:49DUBAI: The UAE’s major bourses recorded follow on gains on Tuesday, taking a lead from the previous day’s venture into positive territory as investors cheered the government’s recently announced incentives and stimulus pa…
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Author: ReutersID: 1586237329422477400Tue, 2020-04-07 05:22HONG KONG: Indonesia has raised $4.3 billion, including the longest-dated US dollar bond ever issued by an Asian nation, to help the government fund its battle against coronavirus, accord…
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Tue, 2020-04-07 01:59DUBAI: Saudi Arabia plans to use its presidency of the powerful G20 group of nations in efforts to restore balance to global oil markets.The Kingdom is organizing a special meeting of G20 energy ministers — including the o…
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Author: Tue, 2020-04-07 00:06WASHINGTON: White House advisers have been discussing the possibility of a coronavirus-related US Treasury bond, US President Donald Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday.Kudlow said this was a time…
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Author: Mon, 2020-04-06 23:58DUBAI: Dubai-listed National Central Cooling co (Tabreed) has bought an 80 percent stake in Emaar Properties’ Downtown Dubai district cooling business for AED2.48 billion ($675 million), the companies said.Emaar w…
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Author: Mon, 2020-04-06 21:27LONDON: Rolls-Royce is scrapping its targets and final dividend to shore up its finances as the British aero-engine maker’s customers around the world ground planes due to the coronavirus pandemic.Rolls, one of Bri…
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Mon, 2020-04-06 16:22DUBAI: Abu Dhabi carrier Etihad Airways is testing new technology that will allow airport facilities – including check-in kiosk, immigration gate, and baggage drop counter – to detect travelers with medical conditions, the…
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Author: Tom BARFIELD | AFPID: 1586178604927109100Fri, 2020-04-03 13:09FRANKFURT: BMW is following other German carmakers in pumping up its financial liquidity to ride out the coronavirus crisis, its chief executive said Friday, as car sales in th…
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Author: ReutersID: 1586173410636629200Mon, 2020-04-06 11:39HONG KONG/LONDON: HSBC shareholders in Hong Kong are calling for an extraordinary meeting with the bank’s management and considering legal action against its decision to scrap dividend…
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Tanzania's economy is booming and its tourism sector is thriving. However, concerns about the president's strong-arm tactics and delays in the completion of key infrastructure projects are threatening this growth.
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to end global poverty, but poorer countries are struggling to hit them. More help from richer countries is crucial, writes Mazdak Rafaty.
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Kenya’s cabinet secretary for the national treasury and planning, Ukur Yatani, discusses the country’s agenda of fiscal reforms and the importance of constructing an east-west Africa highway.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market, but how can telecoms companies make the most of the huge opportunities the region provides?
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Combining a strategic location with an investor-friendly environment, Egypt is ensuring its Suez Canal Economic Zone is primed for foreign investment. 
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London event hears how the UK export credit agency is increasing its focus on trade with African countries. Jason Mitchell reports.
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Emerging states must re-orientate their investment efforts to increasingly target those with an outsized social impact
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Egypt is well on the way to establishing a diversified economy, claims Hala El Saeed, minister of planning and economic development 
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FDI levels have already fallen throughout Iran's main sphere of influence in the region. 
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Togo won a record number of greenfield investment projects last year.
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US energy group to preserve cash for dividend as oil demand collapses in face of coronavirus
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EQT Partners in exclusive talks to buy Schülke as it ramps up production during coronavirus pandemic
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FT Alphaville talks to one of the UK government's top scientific advisers on the handling of the coronavirus pandemic
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After calls to ‘share the pain’, bosses are taking lower salaries to quell investor anger
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Survey shows high and lower earners have felt financial impact of lockdowns
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S&P 500 groups will purchase $371bn of their own shares this year, Goldman estimates
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Abe declares state of emergency and promises public spending package worth 7% of GDP
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Thousands of tenant companies halt payments or try to break leases as coronavirus empties offices
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Positive mood mirrors that in Asia and follows US rally on Monday
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Millions of Russian tourists will no longer be soaking up the sun in Turkey and supermarkets across Russia will soon stop carrying Turkish produce after economic relations between the two countries further deteriorated on Monday. Russia prevented 1,2…
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Russia continued to ratchet up sanctions against Turkey Monday, announcing a ban on the import of Turkish fruits and vegetables, the Wall Street Journal reported. As sharp words are exchanged between the two trading partners, other countries are alre…
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World leaders convene in France on Monday for the latest global conference on climate change, called COP21, in an attempt to forge the first legally binding climate agreement amid increasing urgency. Yet officials from some countries are worried that…
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Turkey on Saturday issued a travel warning to its citizens, asking them to avoid all non-urgent travel to Russia, as diplomatic tension between the two countries escalates over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey earlier this week.The Turkish…
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UPDATED 9:45 a.m. EST: Russia will suspend visa-free travel agreement with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. The action takes effect Jan. 1, the BBC reported.
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Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting".In an escalating war of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) -- Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public-relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic pressures on the kingdom. Riyadh has the tools available to pro…
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One particular sentence spoken by the Russian foreign minister Tuesday has Turkish officials feeling particularly uneasy: “We do not recommend that our citizens travel to Turkey for tourism or any other reason,” Sergey Lavrov said. He was in So…
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Saudi Arabia and Angola both beat out Russia as the largest crude oil suppliers to China in October, Bloomberg reported Monday. The huge China market is one arena where the world’s suppliers continue to compete for share amid a global oil glut, a…
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European leaders are planning to crack down on the use of bitcoin, prepaid credit cards and other methods of anonymous payment in response to the Paris attacks last week, Reuters reported Thursday. It's part of a crisis plan that aims to dismantle…
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THE YEAR had got off to a good start for Saudi Arabia. After a sluggish stretch the non-oil economy was growing, and officials were eager to lure new investment. The war in neighbouring Yemen seemed to be winding down. The world had largely moved on…
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Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see our coronavirus hubD…
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DOMINIQUE PERSOONE, the bad boy of Belgian chocolate, has served powdered chocolate that has been snorted like cocaine at a party for the Rolling Stones and had the sticky stuff drizzled on naked women for a photo shoot. His latest escapade is making…
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Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see our coronavirus hubT…
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MICHAEL SMELLED trouble before he saw it. In January the 28-year-old from Bilibiza, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, caught a whiff of smoke. A village had been torched nearby. Within hours houses and schools in Bilibiza were burn…
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Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see our coronavirus hubI…
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Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see our coronavirus hubA…
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Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see our coronavirus hubF…
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IN THE CORNER of a restaurant in Nekemte, a town in western Ethiopia, Fisaha Aberra unfolds a piece of paper on which he has scrawled the names of 11 men he says were shot by soldiers last year. After this came mass arrests. Fisaha and two siblings f…
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The coronavirus crisis underscores the need for a payment system that includes the unbanked.
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Trying to pass out $350 billion in days or weeks is harder than it sounds.
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Americans are praying for the British PM as he battles Covid-19.
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School districts fear lawsuits if they grade remote assignments.
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Pennsylvania shuts down liquor stores. Panic buying ensues.
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The central bank’s lending programs will need top-shelf staff and rigorous disclosure.
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Before modern medicine, the Habsburg monarchy kept epidemics at bay for more than a century and a half.
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Directing businesses to fight the pandemic would help workers more than an infrastructure splurge.
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Garbagemen are finally getting the respect they deserve.
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In the lugubrious poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, there are flashes of optimism that can comfort and inspire us.
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