ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 For more than a decade, Manchester City has represented one of football’s most extraordinary transformations. A club purchased by Abu Dhabi investors in 2008 became a global sporting powerhouse, assembling some of the world’s best players, hiring elite managers, building a multinational football network and collecting trophies at a…
The United States and Iran are sending very different messages about whether negotiations are happening as tensions between the two countries remain high. U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that discussions with Iran were taking place. Iran, however, publicly denied that it is currently negotiating with the United States. So what’s actually happening? And…
BUSINESS | ABE | OCTOBER 6, 2026 Uber spent years building an app people opened when they needed a ride. Then it trained millions of those same people to open it when they wanted dinner. Now it wants businesses to do the same thing. Uber has agreed to acquire U.S. workplace-food platform ezCater for $2.3…
ABE NEWS | September 2, 2026 Taiwanese technology companies are preparing another $20 billion wave of investment into the United States, as exploding demand for artificial intelligence pushes one of the world’s most important technology supply chains deeper into American territory. Taiwan Economy Minister Kung Ming-hsin announced the new investment estimate Wednesday at the SEMICON…
ABE NEWS | OCTOBER 1, 2026 For much of the past decade, the global economy became accustomed to one powerful idea: money could be borrowed cheaply. Governments borrowed to finance spending. Companies borrowed to expand. Homebuyers benefited from relatively inexpensive mortgages. Investors poured money into stocks, technology companies and other assets because interest rates offered…
ABE NEWS | August 31, 2026 South Africa’s long-troubled electricity giant Eskom has delivered one of the most dramatic financial turnarounds in its recent history, more than doubling annual profit to 30.3 billion rand — roughly US$1.9 billion — as power shortages collapsed, electricity sales improved and years of government intervention began producing visible…
The Bank of Canada kept interest rates at 2.75% this week. ABE NEWS BREAKDOWN: 1. Mortgages: Your payments stay the same for now 2. Savings: High-interest accounts still pay ~4% 3. Stocks: TSX likes stability, so it went up THE TAKE: If you’re buying a house, you can wait 3 more months. If you have…
ABE NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2026 A robot can run, dance, box and perform martial arts. That’s impressive. But on Wednesday, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker did something completely different: It sent investors into a frenzy. Unitree Robotics made its stock-market debut on Shanghai’s STAR Market, with shares priced at 150.80 yuan. They…
Luxury fashion has spent years competing for one increasingly difficult thing: attention. Brands have hired celebrities. They have paid influencers. They have staged enormous runway shows. They have flooded social media with campaigns designed to become the next viral moment. But some of the world’s biggest luxury names are now looking somewhere very different….
ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 For years, one of the biggest strategic conversations inside global business could be summarized in three words: Get out of China. Not completely, perhaps. But reduce the dependence. American tariffs made Chinese imports more expensive. The pandemic demonstrated how dangerous it could be to depend heavily on one…
