Nissan bans all staff contact with Carlos

Beijing: Nissan Motor Co has asked its staff to refrain from any communications with jailed directors Carlos Ghosn and Greg Kelly and their lawyers as Japanese prosecutors investigate the officials at the centre of a scandal about under-reporting of pay. Employees were asked not to get in touch on their own and not to respond […]

How the world’s richest people lost $511 billion in 2018

The richest people on Earth lost $511 billion this year after record first-half gains were obliterated by a succession of bruising market selloffs. Global trade tensions and worries about a U.S. recession dragged markets lower at year-end, leaving the 500 people on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a combined net worth of $4.7 trillion as […]

Iran offers public sector wage hikes and little else in budget

Tehran: Iran has announced a 20 per cent increase in public sector wages in its first budget since the return of US sanctions. But the new budget does not say how many barrels of oil Iran hopes to sell in the next financial year, which starts in late March, but analysts believe it will be […]

FNC passes budget of Dh60.3 billion for 2019

Abu Dhabi: Members of the Federal National Council on Tuesday passed the UAE’s federal budget of Dh60.3 billion for 2019 of which more than 59 per cent will go to education and social development. The House reviewed the 2019 budget in the presence of Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs. The […]

Renault keeps Ghosn at wheel after probe finds no pay wrongdoing

Paris: A Renault SA probe found that jailed Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn’s compensation at the French carmaker complied with French law, sending another signal of division with its alliance partner Nissan Motor Co. A preliminary review of the years 2015 to 2018 found nothing amiss on pay to the executive, who was indicted in […]

US GDP grew 3.4% in Q3, held down by falling exports

WASHINGTON: US growth in the July-September quarter was slightly slower than previously reported, dragged down by the large drop in exports amid President Donald Trump’s multi-front trade wars. With hundreds of billions of goods hit by retaliatory tariffs, US exports fell by the largest amount since early 2009 at the height of the global financial […]

Trump talks of firing Fed chief after latest rate hike

US President Donald Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as his frustration with the central bank chief intensified following this week’s interest-rate increase and months of stock-market losses, according to four people familiar with the matter. Advisers close to Trump aren’t convinced he would move against Powell and are hoping that the […]

Revealed: How much money UAE influencers make per Instagram, Twitter or Youtube post

Dubai: Social media is changing the way brands advertise and every now and then there are sponsored content popping up on everyone’s newsfeeds on Instagram or Facebook. Thanks to the so-called “influencers,” companies are now able to market their products differently, and their options are no longer just limited to paying millions of dollars to […]