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Gulf banks’ M&A hunger pangs seen growing(0)
Gulf banks are showing renewed confidence and are hungry for acquisitions, especially as Western banks retreat. |
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Saudi-China nexus(0)
China recently replaced the UAE to become the Saudi Arabia’s largest exporting market. The Asian giant’s share of Saudi exports stood at 15.4%, according to National Commercial Bank report. |
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100 Million Tourists For MENA Countries(0)
The Middle East tourism industry’s progress was cut short by the Arab Spring crisis and it’s still reeling from the after shocks that reverberate in countries across the region |
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Gulf banks’ M&A hunger pangs seen growing(0)
Gulf banks are showing renewed confidence and are hungry for acquisitions, especially as Western banks retreat. |
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100 Million Tourists For MENA Countries(0)
The Middle East tourism industry’s progress was cut short by the Arab Spring crisis and it’s still reeling from the after shocks that reverberate in countries across the region |
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Project Slow Down In Gulf(0)
Tweet mugley / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND More than USD65-billion worth of projects have been awarded in the Middle East North Africa region, according to Citibank Group research. CONTINUE READING |
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Doing business in the Middle East(0)
Middle East states fared poorly in a new edition of a survey that measures their business friendliness. The |
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Egypt’s FDI Quest(0)
The Egyptian economy has managed to avoid the worst, but it needs foreign investment to get better |
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Morsy vs Shafiq(0)
With the original Egyptian revolutionaries routed in both the parliamentary and presidential elections, the hapless citizens are now weighing the pros and cons of the two remaining presidential candidates -Mohamed Morsy, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate representing Egypt’s Islamic bloc, and Ahmed Shafiq, a former military man and the country’s former prime minister, who is widely seen as a remnant of the country’s last regime. |
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Strong macro drives Morocco’s investment appeal(0)
There is a reason why the European Union picked Morocco as the first North African country to begin its free trade agreement negotiations with last week. |
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Climate alert: Doomsday scenarios(0)
The world is on track to be 4 degrees warmer, which will be marked by ‘extreme heat-waves’ and rising ‘life threatening’ sea levels, according to a World Bank funded report |
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Final frontier?(0)
Sub-Saharan Africa conjures up images of starving children, famine and corrupt regimes presiding over poor infrastructure. |
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Black swans 2013(0)
A list of possible black swan events (or grey swan events, as some of them are visible on the horizon) that may upset their best-laid plans |
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Sunny, with a chance of recession(0)
Europe will remain in recession for much of 2013 and 2014, and Greece could well exit the Eurozone, but it will do little to stop broad-based growth in the global economy, according to Citibank. |
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Project Slow Down In Gulf(0)
Tweet mugley / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND More than USD65-billion worth of projects have been awarded in the Middle East |
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Project Slow Down In Gulf(0)
Tweet mugley / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND More than USD65-billion worth of projects have been awarded in the Middle East |
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ME’s Great Gas Slowdown: IEA(0)
The Middle East’s natural gas production will be a victim of low prices and lack of focus over the next five years, leading to a slowdown in output, according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency. |
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Qatar, Kuwait & UAE’s Ecological Footprint Biggest in World: WWF(0)
Here’s a list Qatar would not want to top: The World Wild Life Fund (WWF) has ranked Qatar as the country with the largest ecological footprint per capita in its latest report |
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Buffett May Hate It, But Asians Love Gold(0)
Given the latest gold trends, emerging market investors and central banks appear to humbly disagree with Warren Buffett’s assertion that the yellow metal has limited uses |
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Gold’s ‘honest’ price $10,000, says Societe Generale(0)
We should dismiss exclamations by gold bugs who think gold prices should be way higher, say $3,000 or $5,000. But when SocGen’s global strategy team thinks gold’s ‘honest price’ is $10,000, one should sit up and take notice |
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Commodity Outlook & Fed’s Operation Twist(0)
Oil and gold are poised to benefit from the dithering policies of Western leaders and the possible launch of the Fed’s Operation Twist. Other commodities are set see a run-up thanks to tight supplies |
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