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Dubai's TECOM Group Expected to Raise $455 Mln in IPO

One of the TECOM industrial complexes in Dubai (Asharq Al-Awsat)
One of the TECOM industrial complexes in Dubai (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Dubai's TECOM Group Expected to Raise $455 Mln in IPO

One of the TECOM industrial complexes in Dubai (Asharq Al-Awsat)
One of the TECOM industrial complexes in Dubai (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Dubai business park operator TECOM Group set price guidance on Thursday for its initial public offering that showed it could raise up to 1.67 billion dirhams ($454.7 million) in the listing.

TECOM Group, owned by the investment vehicle of Dubai's ruler, plans to sell 625 million shares, or 12.5% of issued share capital, at a price range of 2.46 dirhams ($0.66) and 2.67 dirhams ($0.72) per share.

That implies a market capitalization of between 12.3 billion dirhams ($3.3 billion) and 13.4 billion dirhams ($32.6 billion), said the group, which operates 10 business parks and districts across the emirate of Dubai.

UAE Strategic Investment Fund and Shamal Holding will be “cornerstone” investors in the listing, with a combined commitment of 283.75 million dirhams ($77.2 million).

The company is also offering an attractive dividend yield of between 6% and 6.5%, based on a dividend payout of 800 million dirhams ($217.7 million), higher than water and electricity utility DEWA.

On July 5, TECOM will be the latest firm to go public on the Dubai stock market, known as the DFM, under a government initiative announced in November to list 10 state-linked companies.

The IPO subscription period started on June 16 and runs until June 23 for the UAE retail offering, while the qualified investor offering begins on June 24.

Subsequent to Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s announcement on the planned listing of 10 government-owned companies on the DFM, the UAE Strategic Investment Fund was established to act as a strategic long-only investor in key Dubai IPOs.

The UAE Strategic Investment Fund is a segregated portfolio of Emirates NBD AM SPC managed by Emirates NBD Asset Management, one of the largest and longest established asset managers in the Middle East with a long-standing track record of investing in, amongst other asset classes, listed equities within the MENA region via segregated mandates and mutual funds.

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US Labor Market Slows Despite Job Adds in May

Commuters cross Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, during the morning rush hour. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
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US Labor Market Slows Despite Job Adds in May

Commuters cross Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, during the morning rush hour. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
Commuters cross Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, during the morning rush hour. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

The United States added 139,000 jobs in May, more than expected but pointing to a labor market that continues to slow.

The employment data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics exceeded forecasts for about 120,000 payroll gains but marked a decline from the revised 147,000 jobs added in April. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%, remaining near historic lows.

Stocks surged at Friday's open, with all three major indexes gaining about 1%.

In return, US government borrowing costs climbed as investors anticipated the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates higher for longer, making it less attractive to hold US debt.

The BLS report showed job losses in the federal government continued to pile up, with that sector shedding 22,000 roles in May alone.

The federal workforce is down by 59,000 since January, largely due to sweeping cuts by the Trump administration and multibillionaire tech executive Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency project.

Even as the economy continued to add jobs at a relatively steady clip last month, the report showed other signs of a weakening labor market.

The ratio of employed workers to the total population fell to 59.7%, its lowest since the pandemic.

An alternative measure of unemployment that includes “discouraged” workers, or those who have stopped looking for work, returned to a post-pandemic high of 4.5%.

But President Donald Trump cheered the numbers, posting on his Truth Social platform Friday morning: “AMERICA IS HOT! SIX MONTHS AGO IT WAS COLD AS ICE! BORDER IS CLOSED, PRICES ARE DOWN. WAGES ARE UP!”

Trump had urged Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to slash interest rates by a full percentage point.

“Too Late' at the Fed is a disaster!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

In reality, employers added 212,000 jobs in November, unemployment was at 4.1%, the 12-month average of hourly pay gains have softened from nearly 4.2% then to 3.9% in May, and both the labor force participation rate and the employment-to-population ratio were slightly higher.

Only consumer prices have meaningfully cooled, ticking down from an annual inflation rate of 2.7% in November to 2.3% in April, the latest month with available data.

Analysts at Capital Economics called the May jobs report “not as good as it looks.”

Still, they wrote in a note Friday, “it shows that tariffs are having little negative impact” and added that the Federal Reserve is likely to continue holding interest rates steady “while it assesses the effects of policy changes on the economy.”