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Klampfer Middle East and Brayan Group have formed a partnership enterprise to service the UAE’s mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) sector. Klampfer-Brayan Electromechanical Contracting (KBEC) was conceptualised by Klampfer Middle East managing director, Günther Hinterberger, and Brayan Group CEO Praveen Sarapure. Hinterberger said: “As a European company with an international engineering portfolio, Klampfer is moving toward increasing and diversifying our Middle East market share beginning with the United Arab Emirates. Our […]

Committed to keeping Dubai a competitive shopping destination: Mohammed Ali Rashed Lootah Dubai, 18 November 2016 The Department of Economic Development has trained 100 employees from Dubai Parks and Resorts, the region’s largest integrated theme park destination, to conduct compliance checks as part of its ‘Self Inspector’ programme. Under the programme launched last year by the Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in DED, employees nominated […]

You can read our charts-based explainer here. Sometimes the end of an era comes imperceptibly, with it only becoming apparent long after the fact. But many investors are in little doubt that Donald Trump’s election victory loudly trumpets that an entirely new market regime is nigh. The subsequent shockwaves — which sent equities powering higher on stimulus hopes, bonds crashing on inflation fears and emerging markets quaking […]

Donald Trump has claimed credit for keeping a Ford plant from moving to Mexico after the automaker said it would continue making its Lincoln model in Kentucky, though the company denied it ever planned to move the factory. The president-elect said on Twitter that he had been called by Bill Ford, chairman of the carmaker, who told him “he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky […]

U.S. stocks looked set to open little changed on Friday, with all three major indexes near record highs, a day after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen sent a strong signal that interest rates would be increased next month. The Fed could raise rates “relatively soon”, Yellen said in a congressional testimony on Thursday, adding that she would serve out her term. Traders are pricing in an 83 […]

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The last time we encountered David Brock, Hillary Clinton’s so called media “attack dog”, was two months ago when we exposed a money laundering scheme involving over a dozen of his Pro-Clinton SuperPACs. Now, it appears that unable to concede defeat, the man who aligned his career with Hillary Clinton, is going for blood, and is soliciting the help, but mostly money, of Clinton’s top donors. According […]

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While the latest dollar surge, which has pushed the DXY above 101 to the highest level in 13 years,  will likely be a far greater factor for the price of oil than the now daily charade of optimistic statements by OPEC, it doesn’t mean OPEC, and assorted oil-exporting hangers on like Russia, won’t try. As we reported in the past week, today Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak […]

President Barack Obama will hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders in Berlin on Friday, addressing a range of economic and security issues and their concerns about his successor Donald Trump. Syria, international terrorism, climate change and the threats posed by Russia will feature high on the agenda at the meeting, the final engagement of Mr Obama’s farewell trip to Europe. The leaders were also […]

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Thursday pardoned 82 “youths” including a prominent advocate of Islamic reform, following calls to free prisoners swept up in a crackdown, his spokesman said.El-Sissi, a former army chief who won elections after toppling his predecessor Muhammad Mursi in 2013, had promised to look into pardoning prisoners at a youths’ conference last month.The pardoned include Islam Al-Behairy, a television show host […]

Challenges and solutions concerning entrepreneurial strategies discussed at length by public and private sectors during dialogue hosted by Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry and MEED, organisers of Innovation Live! The need for introducing a platform as a ‘one-stop shop’ for starting business in the UAE identified as key to progress. Dubai, UAE, 18 November, 2016 The inaugural Innovation Live!, an official anchor event for UAE Innovation […]

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You know Tony Robbins. He’s the world’s most famous performance and motivational coach. He’s advised everyone from Bill Clinton to Serena Williams, from Leonardo DiCaprio to Oprah Winfrey (who calls him “superhuman”). He was called in to advise Bill Clinton during his impeachment and counts billionaires such as Virgin’s Richard Branson and casino magnate Steve Wynn among friends. He first broke onto the self-improvement scene 30 years […]

Apple has acknowledged a recurring defect in its two-year-old iPhone 6 Plus, offering customers a cut-price touchscreen repair after months of mounting complaints. The supersized smartphone, launched in September 2014, has a tendency to develop what has been dubbed “touch disease” when dropped or pressured, rendering its touchscreen unresponsive or causing a flickering black line at the top of the display. The term was coined by iFixit, […]

For much of the last decade the derivatives industry has been caught in the gravitational pull of the Dodd-Frank act, the sweeping piece of legislation meant to contain the risk of another financial crisis. Six years after its passage, US president-elect Donald Trump wants to dismantle the law. The industry, however is not racing to join him. At this week’s Global Financial Leadership Conference, a gathering of derivatives traders, […]

November 17, 2016 by: Anjli Raval, Oil and Gas Correspondent Worries are growing that a build-up of unsold oil off the coast of the UK will keep prices down as the broader market surplus increases pressure on Opec to cut production. Industry analysts and shipbrokers said an excess of light sweet crudes, has led to a surge in the number of Aframax tankers — which carry around […]

Abu Dhabi Education Council’s (ADEC’s) sixth Abu Dhabi Science Festival (ADSF) is officially underway after it was opened today by  Sheikh Nahyan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Sports Council, accompanied by   Saeed Eid Alghafli, Chairman of the Executive Office and a member of the Executive Council, Dr. Ahmed Mubarak Al Mazrouei Secretary-General of the Executive Council, Rt. Hon. Donald Wilson, Lord Lieutenant and […]

She found a Plan B on a bulletin board that advertised openings in the Police Department. The prospect of holding a job where no two days were the same appealed to her, and she said the department’s equal pay for women was also a huge selling point. She quickly realized that she had found her calling. “Most days I went home amazed that someone was paying me […]

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, the business-centric social networking site, has been blocked in Russia after a court ruling adjudged the service of violating data laws. On Thursday, Nov. 17, Roskomnadzor — the Russian regulatory watchdog for IT and communications — decreed that ISPs in the region block access of LinkedIn website to the public. This was to make LinkedIn conform to a court ruling that pronounced the company guilty of […]

Photo Nusra Front fighters in Idlib Province, Syria, in 2015. In what analysts say is a calculated move to hide ties to Al Qaeda, the Nusra Front recently rebranded itself and changed its name to Jabhat Fath al-Sham, or the Levant Conquest Front. Credit Ammar Abdullah/Reuters American officials accuse him of being part of the “inner leadership circle” of Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, most widely known as […]

17 November 2016 Ashurst has advised Saudi Arabian client Delta Marketing Company on the agreement to dispose of its bottled water division, to Abu Dhabi-based Agthia Group. Corporate counsel Chris Young led the transaction for Delta, with Saudi law advice provided by Jeddah-based partner Dr. Faisal Baassiri. Dr. Faisal Baassiri said: ‘We are delighted to have supported our long-time and valued client Delta Marketing on this transaction. […]

Federal prosecutors have charged a former Valeant manager and the former chief executive of Philidor, a defunct pharmacy chain, alleging the pair operated an illegal kickback scheme to personally enrich themselves to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. New York prosecutors alleged that Gary Tanner of Valeant and Andrew Davenport of Philidor secretly worked together to promote a deal under which the Canadian drugmaker purchased […]

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LONDON Battered bonds and emerging market currencies enjoyed some respite on Thursday as the dollar took a breather from a post-U.S. election charge that has taken it to a 13-1/2 year high. Wall Street looked set for a quiet start and Europe’s main stock markets <0#.INDEXE> were shuffling sideways as the dip in global bond yields cooled bank stocks, which have been rising on better lending profits. […]

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