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LONDON - Britain’s biggest mobile operator EE said on Wednesday it would launch the country’s first superfast mobile broadband service at the end of October.

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PARIS - European stocks edged down on Wednesday, adding to the previous session’s losses, weighed down by doubts about whether Spain will soon request a bailout and further signs of a slowdown in China and Europe. At 1126 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares was down 0.1 percent at 1,100.73 points in relatively low volumes.

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Police threatened merchants who closed their shops in Teheran’s main bazaar and launched crackdowns on sidewalk money changers on Wednesday as part of a push to halt the plunge of Iran’s currency, which has shed more than a third its value in less than a week.

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SINGAPORE - Singapore will allow companies to issue different classes of shares to help its stock exchange to compete for new listings and the country to maintain its competitiveness as a financial centre.

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NEW YORK - US stocks were set to rise slightly at the open on Wednesday after data showed more jobs were created in the US private sector last month than analysts had expected.

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Emaar Properties, the global developer of iconic projects, has strengthened its international project portfolio with the launch of Emaar Square, a ‘city within a city’ development, within its flagship Uptown Cairo project in Egypt.

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Abu Dhabi Terminals (ADT) has completed transitioning 30 per cent of its container business from Mina Zayed to the Khalifa Port Container Terminal since port operations began on September 1.

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Arabtec, UAE’s biggest construction company by market value, has signed a Dh453 million contract to build Europe’s tallest office tower in St. Petersburg.

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Shares in Abu Dhabi’s two largest property companies surged on Monday ahead of their planned merger, lifting the bourse to a seven-month high, while other Gulf markets also gained.

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