The company plans to achieve its 2018 profit target through earnings growth “across our core companies, particularly those in the financial services and media sectors”.
P&O Ports has signed MOUs for preliminary discussions with the governments of Madagascar, the Republic of Somaliland and Albania to enhance their port infrastructure.
The decision looks likely to have little immediate impact on investment flows since foreign ownership limits for most stocks are far from being used up.
Dar Al Arkan chairman Yousef al-Shelash said that he did not expect the tax to be applied to this land, since the company was in the process of developing it.
Trading in Amlak was halted in November 2008 as credit markets dried up and the emirate’s real estate prices began a 50 per cent tumble from their peak.
Islamic banks will be allowed to use sharia-compliant securities other than central bank-issued Islamic certificates of deposit to borrow overnight from the central bank.
Aabar said it would sell two tranches of bonds worth 750 million euros each, with an option to increase that amount by a further 250 million per tranche.